It's worth pointing all of this out because, by now, aching beauty and painstaking attention to historic detail – both visual and temporal – have become calling cards of the Assassin's Creed series. And not only is the world encased in Assassin's Creed 3 an intricately presented breathtaking marvel to behold, it's age and region specific too. It was like something out of a Terence Malik film. In the brief moment I hurtled through the trees towards my destination, I gazed across a pine forest expanse, over a rock-encrusted river that spilled into a glistening lake by way of a waterfall dropping off a sheer cliff face. This is because once one steps back and bothers to survey the game's environment, one can't help but be bowled over. I caution against a blinkered approach – stop and take in the view sometime. This is a thought that occurred to me about 10 hours in as I piloted the franchise's newest protagonist through a sun-dappled forest glade en route to completing my latest side mission.īecause Assassin's Creed 3 is bursting with activities, my attention to detail had shrunken somewhat. O ne has to be careful of taking the beauty in Assassin's Creed 3 for granted.

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