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Mostly because it was just Connor and Achilles, and no going to the creed, it was mostly, screw the British and the Americans, screw the templars and the assassins, all I want is to save my people.Originally Posted by steveeire Go to original post
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It's an American Revolutionary war based game...what do you expect? Someone needs to be the bad guy. The fact is, you weren't paying attention. Not only is this game not anti-British, the game seems to suggest that the Americans were perhaps the real bad guys. The Americans are just as bad as the British. For example when Connor is in the court house, and he spoke with someone (don't remember who) about turning the war into a story, that the war is fought also to win the hearts and minds of the people. But basically the americans wanted to falsify British efforts, to make them look worse. And what about the epilogue. About how the Americans are now expanding, and selling land instead of taxes. The game is suggesting that Connor only helped to replace one monster with another monster. Nothing anti-British there.
Not once did I pick up that the British soldiers were portrayed as being cruel or at least more cruel than the revolutionary soldiers. Watch the Patriot, then play this game, and tell me this was anti-British. They could have gone a much uglier route like that movie did (burning down a church filled with people) but they didn't. But the fact is if you want to look for something to complain about, you'll find it.
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For the OP, I understand where you're coming from on the forts thinking it's antibritish, but Assassin's Creed is about retelling history with fictional explanations on why things happened. The patriots were vastly outnumbered and all the forts were controlled by the british. Considering the odds against the rebels, the loyalists and british military should have smothered the patriots so it was very unlikely that America was created. Connor going into these forts to eliminate the templar threat and in turn the british troops underneath the Templar power makes for a good explanation of how the Patriots actually won the war. Connor's battle with the templars ultimately and unintentionally turned the tides. I'm only on sequence 9 but I imagine it will be less and less pro patriot. I already dislike the patriots because of the templar influence where i'm at in the story.
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I'd just like to point out my initial problem -- anti-British gameplay elements -- and note that I dont think the entirety of the story and characters are/will be anti-british. Therefore its a bit pointless to tell me to finish the game, in all probability the story will be anti-american and anti-british in equal amount, however I'm saying that some of the gameplay is too pro-american anti-british for my taste.
@antiher0z : I don't think there needs to be a bad guy, a story like assassins creed is much better if its full of complex morally ambiguous characters (like the real historical people actually were). The AC games would be much worse if all the characters were arbitrarilly labelled "good guy" or "bad guy" regardless of their real life counterparts characteristics. (the same goes for the two opposing armies -- neither one was completely good or bad) As you've said though, I havent finished the game, so I'll reserve more judgement until I've seen how the gameplay is at the end of the story.
