The time is now. Well, we're talking Assassin's Creed here, so the time is never really now, except sometimes, but...never mind. What I'm trying to say is that the visually upgraded revamp of the PS Vita original is now ready to play on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's called Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD.
With past Creed titles, we've seen all manner of male assassins, but Liberation features the first ever playable female assassin, Aveline de Grandpre. The run of assassins we've seen so far have sported some pretty impressive equipment for the day, and Aveline is no different. The babe from the bayou adds some serious Creole flavor by using a blowgun, sports dual pistols (long before we met Edward Kenway), sugar cane machete, cracks a whip, and even keeps fashion forward, abandoning the traditional assassin hood for a tri-corner hat.
Not long after the game was announced, Producer Martin Capel provided a wealth of details about the game, with a particular emphasis on the story. As Capel described, "Liberation is set in New Orleans between 1765 and 1780, in the period between the end of the French and Indian War, up to the middle of the American Revolution."
While being an assassin was in the blood for previous Creed characters, Aveline was recruited into the organization by an escaped slave named Agate, and becomes instrumental in the Louisiana Rebellion.
Liberation also provided another first for the series, in that it was the first game to feature a character not related to Desmond Miles. Rather, gamers are playing in the Animus, instead of playing an assassin through the Animus. Capel described the game as a whole as "a propaganda tool by Abstergo, who want players to experience a gray area of the Assassin/Templar conflict as an Assassin rather than a Templar," which introduces a whole new meta layer that borders "Inception." This would be touched upon again in the recent Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
It features the same system of ACIII, so it should be easy enough for fans to pick up and play. The only thing lost in the port is the absence of touch screen controls featured on the Vita.
Check out the launch trailer below.