Ubisoft Sofia created and released the 2012 action-adventure video game Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. Initially launched for the PlayStation Vita on October 30, 2012, in North America, it saw a worldwide release the following day. It’s the fourth ancillary game in the series and it happens simultaneously with Assassin’s Creed III.
The story takes place in a fictionalized version of actual history and centers on a centuries-long conflict between two opposing groups: the Assassins, who want to keep the peace and free will, and the Templars, who want to keep the peace through control. The story follows French Assassin Aveline de Grandpre, the series’ first female protagonist, as she fights the Templars’ attempts to seize control of New Orleans in the aftermath of the French and Indian War, which takes place in the late 18th century in French Louisiana, between the years 1765 and 1777.
The action takes place in a free-roaming, open world, and is seen from a third-person perspective; players are tasked with completing tasks and discovering new areas by making use of Aveline’s combat, stealth, and parkour skills.
Critics were divided on Liberation at its first release; while they lauded the game’s setting and protagonist, they panned the game’s narrative execution and parts of the gameplay, and they felt the game was hampered by its spin-off status. In January 2014, a recreated version of the game called Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD was published for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam, respectively.
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This remaster of Liberation HD was released alongside Assassin’s Creed III Remastered in March 2019 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows, in May 2019 for Nintendo Switch, and in December 2021 for Google Stadia. The remastered edition was rebuilt from the ground up to support 4K HDR/enhanced visuals, and it features a number of enhancements, including a new graphics engine with physics-based lighting, new character models, and completely reworked gameplay mechanics.
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Gameplay
Using the PlayStation Vita’s touchscreen, rear touchpad, cameras, and gyroscope, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation stays true to the “franchise’s characteristic open world and gameplay.” Aveline de Grandpré, an assassin in 18th-century French Louisiana, is controlled in the same way as the series’ previous protagonists, so players may expect to be able to freely roam the environment, engage in social stealth,’ and use a counter-based combat system.
Given that it is built on the same engine as Assassin’s Creed III, much of the cutscenes and animations from that game have been recycled here. In contrast, Aveline can dual-wield weapons like the blowpipe and the standard fare of swords, knives, pistols, and the hidden blade, plus she has a number of her own distinctive animations.
In Liberation, players can take advantage of new gameplay features like Aveline’s Chain Kill ability, which allows her to chain attacks together to kill multiple enemies at once; a trading system, in which players manage her father’s trade network by purchasing goods and selling them to other cities via ship; and the ability to switch between Aveline’s three personas, each of which has their own set of benefits and drawbacks.
For instance, the Assassin persona excels in combat but is easily spotted by foes; the Slave persona can disguise themselves as other slaves or carry crates to get past suspicious foes, and the Lady persona can charm or bribe guards to get past security and into restricted areas, but she cannot free run.
Several in-game goodies are available to players that connect the game to Assassin’s Creed III, including Connor’s signature tomahawk, an exclusive character skin, a multiplayer character, and an upgrade to all ammunition bags.
The original PlayStation Vita version features a multiplayer mode in which players tap nodes on a map to control characters (represented by static pictures) and do things like seize bases and gather supplies. In contrast to the typical competitive multiplayer in the series, in which players kill one another for fun, this mode encourages cooperative play and a focus on the story.
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Plot
Abstergo Entertainment, a modern-day offshoot of Abstergo that creates multimedia items, has released its flagship product, Liberation, a video game based on the history of the assassin Aveline de Grandpré. During their gameplay, the player is contacted by the hacker organization Erudito, who explains that a great deal of censoring has occurred in regard to the Assassin-Templar battle and offers to assist the player in uncovering the truth.
In 1765, the player is introduced to Aveline as she goes about her business in New Orleans from the grand estate she shares with her father, Philippe Olivier de Grandpré, and stepmother, Madeleine de L’Isle. Near the close of the French and Indian War, as the city changes hands from France to Spain, Aveline uncovers a scheme to control Louisiana being orchestrated by the Templar Rafael Joaquin de Ferrer.
Jean-Jacques Blaise d’Abbadie, the French governor, and Baptiste, a former member of the Assassin order who was helping him, were both murdered as a countermeasure. De Ferrer leaves New Orleans a year after the murders, and his friend Antonio de Ulloa becomes the new Spanish governor of Louisiana.
After learning that Ulloa has restricted trade, established a secret slave-trading business, and allowed French authorities to continue working in the city, Aveline’s tutor Agate instructs her to assassinate Ulloa in 1768. In spite of this, Aveline orders Ulloa to resign as governor and leave New Orleans after learning that the slaves he sent away were sent to a Templar dig site in Chichén Itza. Aveline goes to Chichen Itza dressed as a slave, against Agaté’s orders and finds her mother Jeanne, a former Assassin who vanished when Aveline was little.
She also meets de Ferrer and learns that his boss, the “Company Man,” has given him orders to use the slaves to locate a secret chamber constructed by the First Civilization. Aveline enters the room, takes the other half of the Prophecy Disk (an ancient item), and murders de Ferrer. Jeanne admonishes her daughter not to deliver the Disk to Agaté because of fear that he will use it to kill her for betraying the Assassins.
After Aveline returns to New Orleans in 1771, her companion and fellow Assassin Gérald Blanc reveals to her that a Templar called Diego Vázquez persuaded numerous troops to take control of the Bayou while she was away. Aveline, upon realizing that Agaté is in danger, rushes to his side to provide protection. A year later, she goes back to Chichén Itzá and reconciles with Jeanne, despite what the latter did the previous year.
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After Jeanne assists Aveline in retrieving the second half of the Disk, she remains to ward against any additional Templar attacks. Aveline goes back to New Orleans in 1776 determined to free the slaves there. Madeleine, upon learning of her stepdaughter’s activities, urges her to aid a former slave named George Davidson in his attempt to flee to the north and join the Patriot army. Later, Aveline tries to kill Vázquez, only to find out that he is not the Company Man. Philippe suddenly gets sick and dies at this time for unknown reasons.
On the New York Frontier in 1777, Gerald tells Aveline about a Loyalist officer who may have information about the Company Man. Aveline murders the cop, who turns out to be Davidson, with the help of Connor, another assassin. Aveline confronts Madeleine after returning to New Orleans and realizing that she is the Company Man and is responsible for Philippe’s poisoning.
Madeleine admits that she had been training Aveline in secret to join the Templars and urges her to kill Agaté as a final act of trust. When Aveline tries to warn him, Agaté attacks her because he thinks she has already joined the Templars due to her disobedience. He then kills himself because he cannot accept his failure as a mentor.
At the St. Louis Cathedral, Aveline initiates Madeleine into the Templar Order and presents her with the Prophecy Disk. Madeleine realizes that a locket that Jeanne had given to Aveline when she was younger is necessary for the device to function properly but she is unable to locate it. After connecting the locket to the Disk, Aveline exposes her true intentions, killing Madeleine and the other present Templars. This activates a holographic recording from the First Civilization, during the Human-First Civilization War, revealing the election of Eve as the leader of the human uprising.
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