AC- Constantinople Was The Smartest Choice Ubisoft Could Make, No Doubt!

I think overall the place voted and predicted most to be next was France. That was not only because France is simply a beautiful and neat place to scale buildings in but also because the French setting was suggested by the Brotherhood game (i wont get specific so as to avoid spoilers). The hope for the French setting was very high though, andother oftenvoted places had to be American Revolution, feudal japan, London, and Greece.

I think though Constantinople simply fits Assassins Creed better. Assassins Creed is about corruption, and though a post WWII French setting could have that perhaps, thats not the corruption AC focuses on. It focuses on corruption in the Catholic Church, considering Templars are Catholic Church soldiers in history, also considering AC1 was about the crusades and AC2 and Brotherhood were about corruption in the Vatican. Constantinople became the headquarters for the Western Church. For a moment in history, Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire,was the new Rome, andit ended up clashing with the Vaticanin many accounts. It makes a million times more sense for a Consantinople setting to succeed a Roman Setting than anything else people wanted Ubisoft to do. Plus the architecture there is stunning.

Your Thoughts?

Constantinople > any place there has ever been in France. France is overrated.
Meanwhile, Istanbul is still beautiful and people in Paris are choking on filthy exhaust fumes and high parking costs.

Constantinople > any place there has ever been in France. France is overrated.
Meanwhile, Istanbul is still beautiful and people in Paris are choking on filthy exhaust fumes and high parking costs.

Locutus_Picard

So true, Constantinople is beautiful. The hagia sophia is better than any building in Paris I can think of lol

Constantinopole was the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It had monumental clashes with Rome (and especially the Fourth Crusade, which left for Palestine but decided to sack Constantinopole instead). But it was conquered by Ottomans 6 years before Ezio was born.

Frankly, the whole Templar plot they're preparing for Revelations sounds like ass given the state of the city 60 years after the conquest. And I'm very curious to see how they'll deal with the Orthodox Church - it was still tolerated by muslims during that period and its presence was far, far stronger than that of the Catholics.

Still, while I'm not a fan of Brotherhood, the setting alone sold me on Revelations.

Just watced the teasers now, talk about late lol. The disc at the second teaser is the disc of phaistos, which was found at Crete and dates back to 2k+ years bc, its some artifact of the ancient Minoan civilization. The 3rd teaser has what today is regarded as the sign of the Byzantine empire, that eagle thingie. In reality that was just the household sign of the last emperorr, but that's for history buffs :D

AS much as I love that we get to play as Ezio once more. I still wished Ubisoft made a Japanese Assassins Creed or Ninja Creed... I mean, at the time, Japan was modernizing and abandoning the old japanese way's ( Samurai). It would be a perfect assassins creed and it would make sense :P

Constantinople?! Yes! That is awesome! Probably one of the most interesting and best cities to ever base a open-world game in.

If we get some Fourth Crusade, Roman Catholics vs Eastern Orthodox stuff in Revelations, that'd be the greatest thing ever.

Athens was a small unimportant farmer village during the middle ages. And it remained that way untill after the greek revolution in the 19th century. If someplace in Greece would be featured, it would either be an island or the city of Thessalonica which was pretty prosperous at the time.

I was hoping it would be in Greece after the 3rd teaser hinted at it. I know Constantinople was built by the Byzantines but I don't really want to witness the city my ancestors built with their bare hands being ran by murderous turks.BigBoss255

[QUOTE="BigBoss255"]I was hoping it would be in Greece after the 3rd teaser hinted at it. I know Constantinople was built by the Byzantines but I don't really want to witness the city my ancestors built with their bare hands being ran by murderous turks.Locutus_Picard

What do you expect from a city founded by the romans? Although Paris was also founded by the romans...
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Anyway, I loved the new setting. I can't wait to climb the Hagia Sophia just I did the Colosseum. The romans were really the greastest engineers in history.

I was hoping it would be in Greece after the 3rd teaser hinted at it. I know Constantinople was built by the Byzantines but I don't really want to witness the city my ancestors built with their bare hands being ran by murderous turks.BigBoss255

EDIT: Anyway, didn't I call this sometime ago? I know I suggested pre-WW1. But I'm sure I suggested Constantinople aswell.

French Revolution would have been a perfect setting for an Assassin's Creed game. I bet that's where 3 is set.

dont count out locations hinted by the previous games, those are most likely going to be in AC3

I think people are tired of Ezio and the same Renaissance era setting. AC2 was cool, Brotherhood was ok, and now with Revelations it's like "come on, we've been here before". When will Ubisoft do a feudal Japan setting? It seems to me that setting is just screaming for it's own game.

[QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"][QUOTE="BigBoss255"]I was hoping it would be in Greece after the 3rd teaser hinted at it. I know Constantinople was built by the Byzantines but I don't really want to witness the city my ancestors built with their bare hands being ran by murderous turks.BigBoss255

You'd better hope that you don't play/enjoy any WWII games, because if you do, you really don't have a leg to stand on concerning wanting anyone else to take your side over the Turks rampaging through a Greek-made city. Suck it up like the rest of us who are forced to tolerate the monumental disrespect contemporary gamers have for those who fought and died in various historical wars.

[QUOTE="BigBoss255"]I was hoping it would be in Greece after the 3rd teaser hinted at it. I know Constantinople was built by the Byzantines but I don't really want to witness the city my ancestors built with their bare hands being ran by murderous turks.lordreaven

EDIT: Anyway, didn't I call this sometime ago? I know I suggested pre-WW1. But I'm sure I suggested Constantinople aswell.

[QUOTE="BigBoss255"][QUOTE="Locutus_Picard"] Oh please...don't make this a policital discussion now. I don't know where you are coming from and quite frankly I don't care, the blind hate on the turks is going far too long for now. If you mess with the turks and Turkey and wage a war against them, don't come crying when you lose that war.Boomshaffted

You'd better hope that you don't play/enjoy any WWII games, because if you do, you really don't have a leg to stand on concerning wanting anyone else to take your side over the Turks rampaging through a Greek-made city. Suck it up like the rest of us who are forced to tolerate the monumental disrespect contemporary gamers have for those who fought and died in various historical wars.

Lol I wasn't saying I was insulted by it. I was just saying I wish it was set 100 years earlier or something so I wouldn't have to see the Turks in all their glory.:D

The official language of the state changed from latin to greek during Emperror Heraklius in the 7th century, thus becoming a de facto greek empire. It was still recognized as the Holy Roman Empire and the citizens called themselves Romans. Byzantium was the name of the ancient greek colony which was located at the spot where Emperror Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, changing the name of the city to Constantinopole. The people of the Empire recognized themselves as romans even way after the fall, even the turks called the greeks romans centuries after the fall of the city and the destruction of the empire. Byzantine empire is a modern term to describe the eastern roman empire or holy roman empire. Also, what's with the politics and the racial hate in a FRIGGEN VIDEOGAME FORUM? lol.

I think people are tired of Ezio and the same Renaissance era setting. AC2 was cool, Brotherhood was ok, and now with Revelations it's like "come on, we've been here before". When will Ubisoft do a feudal Japan setting? It seems to me that setting is just screaming for it's own game.

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Constantinopole is nothing like Renaissance Italy though.

I would prefere Japan, but I'm fine with Constantinople

Back to Assassins Creed 1 then :\ Yet another game set in the Dusty Middle east.

I think the reason why people never predicted it is because most people thought the next release was going to be the 3rd assassins creed, so it might still be France for all we know...I'm really excited for Revelations though, and the location seems great, but disappointed they are going back to that part of the world and not including the Pyramids, I'd love to scale those.

... Woah some bad blood in here.:?

I'm interested in this game now, especially after hearing "Ezio's trilogy", man I'm burnt on Ezio.:P

I just watched this movie Agora, and while it took place in Alexandria (which would be an awesome place for the AC series as well), it was during the time when Constantinople was in power. What I saw looks awesome!

Ezio again? His fake Italian Accent is so annoying.