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Ubisoft's Jean-Francois Boivin has revealed the first ever details about Assassin's Creed 3 to GamerZines, telling us that the yet-to-be-announced title will feature a "new setting" and a "new hero".

Talking to us at an Ubisoft event held in London on Wednesday, Assassin's Creed's Production Manager said that introducing a new character and setting to each numbered title in the franchise is "the way it works".

"Yep, that's the way we see our numbers," said Boivin when we asked him whether Assassin's Creed 3 would see a new lead character.

MAJOR SPOILERS wrote:Now that we know more about the storyline in the Assassin’s Creed universe, we also get a clearer picture of the endgame in Assassin’s Creed 3. The highly advanced race of “The Ones Who Came Before” spoke through a hologram of Minerva to Desmond, through “The Propheth” Ezio, about their Temples. Several of these Temples were built around the globe to prevent the end of the world in 2012. The only known Temple so far is below the Vatican. In Assassin’s Creed 3 Desmond will have to find the other Temples in time. This to activate them in order to prevent a solar flare from reaching and scorching the Earth, which would kill nearly everyone once again. In a race against time, Desmond will have to re-enter the Animus 2.0 to continue his search for the exact locations of the Temples via his ancestor’s memories.

D-vid wrote:I was thinking. Maybe it is going to be obvious after Assbro, I don't know I'm not through yet, but Desmond is in the year 2012 and Minerva was talking about a horrible disaster coming soon. The end's going to be about 12/21/2012 and the mayan calendar and shit, isn't it.

Exeres wrote:

D-vid wrote:I was thinking. Maybe it is going to be obvious after Assbro, I don't know I'm not through yet, but Desmond is in the year 2012 and Minerva was talking about a horrible disaster coming soon. The end's going to be about 12/21/2012 and the mayan calendar and shit, isn't it.

They dropped pretty big hints at that in the first game. Once in an e-mail on Vidic's computer that said the Templars were planning on launching a Piece of Eden into orbit to dominate everyone all at once, the launch date was set to be 21 December 2012. Also, 12/21/12 was one of the messages Subject Sixteen wrote in blood for Desmond.

And so I have begun to wonder – might there not be a way to stop – or at least delay – death's embrace? Surely the ones who came before were not so frail and feeble as we. But I have sworn to be done with the artifact. To not gaze into its core. Still: faced as I am with the prospect of my end, what harm is there in one last look...