Assassin’s Creed 3 to Cut Revolutionary War Main City Philadelphia

<p><em><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;xboxoz360&period;files&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;2012&sol;02&sol;assassins-creed-3-screenshots-oxcgn-9&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Assassin's Creed III" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"350" &sol;><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Assassin’s Creed 3<&sol;em> contains three main &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cities&colon;” Boston&comma; New York&comma; and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the Frontier&period;” Conspicuously absent is a city that many feel should have been included in the Revolutionary War-based title given its history as the heart of the American Revolution&colon; Philadelphia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Originally planned for inclusion&comma; creative director Alex Hutchinson stated that the city was cut due to gameplay reasons&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When we started out&comma; Philly was one of the cities that we wanted to do&period; In the end&comma; we decided against it&comma; &&num;8217&semi;cause when we mocked it up &&num;8230&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s an architecturally designed city&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s on a grid&period; Which at first we thought would be cool – the first city in AC to be designed on a grid – and then you realize &&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi; Hutchinson said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A college continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Well it&&num;8217&semi;s on a grid and it&&num;8217&semi;s flat&comma; and the avenues are super large&period; So that&&num;8217&semi;s like three things that made us say it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t work in an open world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Philadelphia’s first governor&comma; William Penn&comma; modeled the cities architectural grid lay out after European cities of the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite some of the design issues caused by the large avenues and rigid layout&comma; Philadelphia is included in some fashion in <em>Assassin’s Creed 3<&sol;em>&period; Hutchinson continues&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That said&comma; there are key events that took place in Philadelphia&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Exactly how Philadelphia will play into <em>Assassin’s Creed 3&comma; <&sol;em>we’ll have to wait until October to find out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;26&sol;assassins-creed-3s-displaced-main-city-philadelphia&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;