Clearly, what Ubisoft Montreal means to do with these personas is essentially turn the concept of “passing” into a game mechanic. My initial response to reading about the idea was an uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty. Now Aveline’s disguises will allow her to do what otherwise had previously only been accomplished by hiring some outside help. Barring the persona of the assassin, the two other personas available to Aveline are “the lady persona,” which consists of “the constraining dress of an affluent New Orleans woman” that will limit “her mobility, but she gain the ability to charm her way past soldiers and other obstacles that would stand in her way.” The final persona puts her in the guise of “a local slave,” which allows her to “slip unnoticed past opponents or incite a riot with the local populace.”įans of the series will probably immediately recognize that what has previously been a mechanic enacted in the Assassin’s Creed series by hiring groups of prostitutes, gypsies, mercenaries, and thieves in order to create distractions and throw off guards in this stealth series has now become a mechanic directly associated with the protagonist herself. and 5 More from Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, Game Informer.

Miller explains that the first female protagonist in an Assassin’s Creed game, Aveline, is “a woman of mixed race who also has access to significant financial resources,” and as a result that the character will have “access to three personas as she wanders New Orleans each represented by a change in abilities and clothing (“10 Cool Features You Don’t Know about Assasssin’s Creed III.

In a recent issue of Game Informer, Matt Miller describes the addition of a new mechanic to the Assassin’s Creed series that involves taking on what Ubisoft Sofia is calling “personas” in Assassin’s Creed: Liberation.

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