OK we have an interesting, slightly worrying problem here. Fast forward this video to 3:52 and tell me what you see.

I REALLY REALLY hope they don't make THAT guy out to be a heroic assassin. I would instantly lose ALL respect for the AC series.

Please, please, please make this turn out to be some harmless mini-game.

I think it's just one of those code-breaker mini-games that Desmond may have to do, unlike in the first game where the passcodes were given to him. I don't know who this Heroic Assassin is, please explain.

I believe that is one of the minigames they've brought up in some of the previews.


Who is he by the way? He looks familiar.



Edit: Oh wait...


Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Originally posted by AltairEagleEzio:
I think it's just one of those code-breaker mini-games that Desmond may have to do, unlike in the first game where the passcodes were given to him. I don't know who this Heroic Assassin is, please explain.

The person in question is Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's assassin.

I think the TC is reading too much into just a picture. Without knowing the context in which it is used, everything is pure speculation.

No matter how you feel about the subject, Ubisoft wouldn't be stupid enough to make JFK's assassination out to be a good thing. I think the backlash would be bigger than having him actually poison the corrupt pope that actually died by an apparent poisoning. Again, that's pure speculation too.

I'm gonna guess Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Booth from his reation.

EDIT: YAY!!! my first ninja-ing!

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Originally posted by MrNussbaum:
No matter how you feel about the subject, Ubisoft wouldn't be stupid enough to make JFK's assassination out to be a good thing. I think the backlash would be bigger than having him actually poison the corrupt pope that actually died by an apparent poisoning. Again, that's pure speculation too.

Maybe they make Oswald out to be a Templar.

Or point out the fact that Oswald was an Assassin, but was framed by the Templars(which is one"theory")

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Originally posted by Tetsou88:

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Originally posted by MrNussbaum:
No matter how you feel about the subject, Ubisoft wouldn't be stupid enough to make JFK's assassination out to be a good thing. I think the backlash would be bigger than having him actually poison the corrupt pope that actually died by an apparent poisoning. Again, that's pure speculation too.

Maybe they make Oswald out to be a Templar.

Or point out the fact that Oswald was an Assassin, but was framed by the Templars(which is one"theory")

Right, that's what I was thinking. I just don't see them having the nards to suggest JFK's assassination was a "sacrifice for the greater good".

I am almost certain that is NOT Lee Harvey Oswald. Patrice seems like a smart guy, I doubt he would want to get lynched by the mobs that would burn down their building.

SPOILER:

It's probably just a 'conspiracy theory', part of the 'truth' videos from Subject 16's glyphs.

It's definitely Oswald.

Yeah you guys are right on the money, it's freakin' Lee Harvey Oswald.

And if you look at the rest of the stuff in that same video image it's more than just a picture of him. There's a picture of Jackie Kennedy immediately after the assassination, a picture of the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald fired from, a picture of the Secret Service agents jumping onto the back of the car after Kennedy was hit, and a picture of the blood-soaked inside of the Presidential limo. I can tell because I've been interested in this historical event since I was a kid.

It definately looks like a mini-game because it pops up as Ezio is scaling Giotto's Campanille. I really hope you guys are right about Ubi taking the "conspiracy" angle on this and suggesting he was framed. I REALLY don't even want to think of the public's reaction if this game even HINTS at being sympathetic to Lee Harvey Oswald.

Where are we getting the idea 'Heroic Assassin?'

Choopius, relax. JFK is a very dear part of American history and memory, and I know Ubisoft won't disrespect that.

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Originally posted by LaurenIsSoMosh:
Where are we getting the idea 'Heroic Assassin?'

Wondering minds and speculation of course...

Bloody AC every thing is a secret hehehe

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Originally posted by LaurenIsSoMosh:
Where are we getting the idea 'Heroic Assassin?'

Choopius, relax. JFK is a very dear part of American history and memory, and I know Ubisoft won't disrespect that.

Read my first post. I said "I REALLY REALLY hope they don't make THAT guy out to be a heroic assassin."

I'm not suggesting that they ARE saying he's a hero but all the other assassins that we've seen in the games so far are all "good guys" with the lone exception of Al Mualim.

Seems odd that it would be Al Mualim and Lee Harvey Oswald. Again just speculation and obviously LIVELY discussion.

Why does it have to be black and white?

Why does Assassin = good and Templar = bad? C'mon, I would love it if he turned out to be an Assassin!

Hehe The Assassin Creed Team are Canadian Not American, so they dont care

Plus maybe JFK was an Assassin or something, and he was assinated by Lee Harvey Oswald


But it would make sence since Assassins Creed is a conspiracy game, and I for one am a conspiracy theorist/Truther.

So it would make sence that the templars/Illuminati/Government who are pretty much the masters of the world in the modern world, would frame another assassins (Lee Harvey Oswald) for killing JFK, because maybe Oswald was an Assassin but the Templars/Illuminati/Government wanted him dead for some reason

You have to keep in mind Assassin's Creed is NOT a black and white game. There is no, this is good and this is bad. It's all about the different shades of gray.

Nixon was totally a Templar...

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Originally posted by JudgeQwerty:
Nixon was totally a Templar...

Templar?!?!
BURN HIMMMM!!!!!!

(has anyone figure how much of a pyro I am? )

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Originally posted by UchihaKarasu:
You have to keep in mind Assassin's Creed is NOT a black and white game. There is no, this is good and this is bad. It's all about the different shades of gray.

Of course. That's why all of your targets except Talal and Robert De Sable casually kill at least one person for insubstantial reasons. The party line may be "there are no good guys and bad guys", but really, AC1 was pretty clear-cut.
Assassins kill when necessary, and only armed people.
Templars kill whoever they please.
Assassins try to free everyone.
Templars try to control everyone.
The fact that they both want peace is the only "good" thing about the Templars. The fact that they both misrepresent themselves to the public is the only "bad" thing about the Assassins.