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Ubisoft Censors Assassin's Creed III Trailer For North American Audience

Posted on Friday, October 5 @ 13:28:14 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


Remember this trailer? It launched just yesterday and features all sorts of new and exciting footage from Assassin's Creed III. However, a few snippets of action are actually missing. That's right, North American gamers received a censored version of the video that lacks a particularly violent scene in which Connor takes out a few Americans.

If you check out the UK version of the same trailer below, you'll notice that around the 2:09 mark, our protagonist rips into a couple of soldiers clad in blue.


What do you think of this change? Was the censorship really necessary? Personally, I find it totally ridiculous. If we're going to be killing soldiers on both sides of the Revolution, why hold back in the trailer? Hey, don't you dare accuse me of being unpatriotic!

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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
    Im going to just say its flat out wrong as a practice to censor. Now if they just didn't fit it into the new trailers *shrugs* but if they did it on purpose its very un-American if you ask me.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
    Actually censorship is very American
  • ZeroZula
    ZeroZula

    Joined: Oct 2012
    Posted: Oct 8th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
    Being American is those contradicting statements. Being all of the above is VERY American.
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl

    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
    considering that an average american wouldn't know the difference between blue and red coats, censoring it was an exercise in redundancy...
  • Alex_Osborn
    Alex_Osborn

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
    Ha! Too true.
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl

    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
    and its not even as if killing American soldiers is that hard to explain (though I speak from a perspective of a History major), in fact I can eplain/justify it in 2 words: Benedict. Arnold. end of controversy.

    In fact I want to call it here and now that there will be a sequel, AC2 style, that will take place during the war of 1812. If you were born/raised in US and don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself a Soviet sleeper agent you damn commie.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
    That's funny, people were talking about the War of 1812 in the forums in the presidential debate thread.
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
    Yes, I think the promotional material for this game has been pretty condescending to Americans, as if painting the Revolution in anything other than jingoist colours, in a work of fiction no less, will offend our sensibilities. I hope this doesn't carry over into the game, as shamelessly appealing to my sense of patriotism is only going to detract from the experience for me.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
    And at this point doesn't the general gaming public know that AC is about the assassins versus the Templars?
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
    You saw what happened with Medal of Honor.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
    What censorship? But this is a completely different side to it. This isn't "protect us from the terrorist reality!" This is "I can't stand to comprehend a complex narrative that doesn't paint one side of war as good and the other side bad."

    My point is there really wasn't anything WORTH defending in MoH's multiplayer like there is in AC's complex narrative.
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
    The censorship was completely unnecessary. I ended up watching the trailer on Youtube yesterday and it was the uncensored version and it didn't bother me one bit. It actually adds to the storyline. I don't think I would be as interested in the game if Connor was strictly for the colonies and only fought the British.

    Also, why bother censoring something like this? It's the internet, of course both versions are going to be widely available to anyone that bothers to do a simple search. It was a pointless and needless attempt to not piss off the idiots that think it's patriotic to never question things and always agree with status quo. Honestly, I'm actually more offended by the censored version.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
    Both versions won't necessarily be aired in the middle of Sunday football games or MLB playoffs...
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
    I think Ubisoft did this as a wink to the Brits because most are still butt hurt over the war. That's why they including the death of the American soldiers. I'm only half kidding by the way.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
    The British are still butt hurt about a war that happened over 200 years ago?
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
    You bet!
  • Nurgey
    Nurgey

    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Oct 5th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
    I think the real question is whether the Assassins would want to see a game trailer censored or if it would be evidence of attempted Templar control?

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