The frontier of Assassin’s Creed III offers an incredible bounty of wildlife for a skilled and dedicated hunter. The wilderness positively sprawls before Connor, ensuring that its boundless resources are always available. Adventure awaits beyond the protective city walls of Boston, and I’d like to give you a glimpse of a tiny fraction of what you can expect to find within the forests and glades of the frontier.
Let’s begin with the simpler game Connor can capture, and a few examples of how he can put them to use.
The animals pictured in the image above can be found roaming the countryside in AC3, and you’ll find them the easiest to catch. Hares, foxes, deer, raccoons and beavers shouldn’t present much danger to a canny trapper like Connor, but these animals (so frequently preyed upon by the larger predators) can be incredibly skittish and will bolt if they detect a human presence.
Maintaining such a close relationship with nature has afforded Connor some unique abilities that you can exploit to make hunting easier. Activating Eagle Sense will enable Connor to detect nearby clues which, when investigated, will identify the location of game. A broken branch marks the passage of a fox, a bush with several nibbled leaves confirms a rabbit has had a recent meal or a patch of matted grass served as bedding for a dozing deer… any of these signs will help locate the tasty culprit.
Finding clues will point you to your quarry, which you will want to take great care in stalking, creeping up on through the underbrush or springing upon silently from up in the trees. Remaining undetected is crucial since you’ll need to approach without alerting your target… a hidden blade kill is your objective, because using larger weapons could damage the pelt, particularly of smaller creatures like hares or foxes.
Once you’ve taken down an animal, you must skin it and retrieve everything you can use in order to honor the beast’s sacrifice. If you slay wantonly without harvesting the bounties of the forest, you will lose synchronization with Connor and could be ejected from the Animus.
Game from the frontier offers a great many resources that residents of cities will pay handsomely for, so collecting the various pelts, meat and even bones or oils of beasts can be an excellent way to fund Assassins’ activities. There are also a few other uses for the bounty of the forest, but we’ll get into those in a future blog… we can’t reveal every secret just yet!
In celebration of all this game’s awesome… er, game, check out this Assassin’s Creed III themed EPIC MEAL TIME video!
Ridiculous.
Finally AC has animals. Never understood why most games never added animals
i.e. Gta.
AWESOME gonna buy this at launch :D
But….but….I don’t wanna hurt da bunnies. Q_Q
I’m waiting for full on bladder simulation. How is it that main characters in games can go hours on end without ever needing to relieve themselves?
@2 why would GTA have animals? You realize that GTA takes place in the city and not the wilderness. Why would foxes be roaming the streets of Vice City or Liberty City
“This is what we fought for… This is freedom.”
People praising murder. Men making dirty jokes and saying d**k a bunch of times. People flaunting the oh-so-delicious unhealthy eating habits.
“This is what we fought for… this is freedom.”
Hmm…
haha , funny
LOL, what the hell!
Nice video. I still wonder why it’s features on the Playstation Blog, but funny.
@ 7 please get the big stick out of your butt. You’re lack of humor is bumming the rest of us out.
great video. funny.
I still can’t wait for this game to come out Ubisoft has always been my favorite game developer.
I love the AC series & have every game so far. I have pre-paid the Liberation Vita bundle. No doubt I will buy AC3. I have no qualms about killing every guard in a 4 block area but I am keeping the animal kills to whatever is minimally required. Not going to watch your video.
This game is going to be the bomb, the animal kills im going to have in this game will destroy my numbers in red dead redemption
The best AC is coming MUHAHAHAHA
Can we get some AC 3 content for PlayStation Home i want a Connor outfit not just a tomahawk
Looking forward it to the hunting ,30 hour of story and side quests. should be the longest AC yet
@5 Hmm, maybe a post-launch patch adding Move support for that feature?
@6 I wasn’t implying they should have added a fox or wild animals so to speak, meant pets like there wasn’t a single cat or dog,
For a game that was striving for being realistic.
Epic Meal Time is Canadian, hahh.. they are from Montréal
know what sony needs to do i was wacthing youtube on the ps3 boswer it was good no sytem acvitestion required next you know it youtube became a app now i cant wacth youtube on the ps3 home page if you are not able to use it on the home page then why have it there replace it with something else we can use
that was the funniest thing of the day, perhaps the week thus far. outside of that, I cannot wait, preordered both PS3 and Vita AC3. ^_^
Hopefully PETA will not complain about it.
Best game to come out this fall
Here’s hoping that harvesting the anal glands of beavers is in there. They’re probably still the most valuable animal extract in the Americas.
How many different animals do you have in the game?
The game is looking more and more like READ DEAD REDEMPTION. Even though it is a good thing, I will pass. I dont like AC games story.
Why do those foxes look cell-shaded?
I hope it come out on the PSN i will not bye a blue-ray game. I love AC but if it come out on Blue-Ray i will not bye it sorry i had like five PS3s and all of tham gone bad do to playing Blue-ray games.
@7 Wow. Just wow. Go to college. Get educated. I’m in a Biochemistry course on Food & Cooking, and it’s amazing what myths people believe about what’s good or not good to eat. We’ve covered a bunch of myths about vegan diets too.
@28 Sounds like user error?
KILL ALL THE ANIMALS WITH NIPPLES AND A FACE!!!! n_n
Do we have to kill the animals? Would bum me out if we did. :/
I don’t like to kill animals in games either, is it required?
@32 then don’t play, you hippy pansy.
I like Assassins Creed as much as the next man Ubi. But Where is the Prince of Persia?
WTF! upset over killing animals and dont like the AC story! da hell is wrong w/ people!!!
awesome cant wait
While I appreciate the realism of this particular game mechanic, because that’s what people back then had to do to survive, I personally don’t find the act of stalking and killing animals fun and something I’d enjoy re-enacting in recreational video game playing time. Sadly I will thus be dropping my beloved Assassin’s Creed franchise from my must-buy list.
Let’s send this game to PETA, Pretty epically trained assassins
So It’s okay to kill thousands of humans in various creative ways but when animals are thrown in the mix we should cancel our preorders??? It’s called ASSASSINS Creed… You kill stuff. Even in the first game.
Helpful tips always welcome.