The Assassin’s Creed series has been very awesome due to its unique play style that lets you roam around freely and yet attached with a very catchy and cheesy storyline. Assassin’s Creed II and Brotherhood has been about Ezio Auditore, but little is known about Altair, the man in the original game. Revelation will be the important puzzle to link things together.

Game Informer has a list full of information regarding the upcoming game from Ubisoft, and today we will be looking through them while listening to Rebecca Black’s hippy song.

Places that you’ll be going:

Masyaf

Masyaf is the original place where the Grandmaster of Assassin, Altair started his journey when he was under the evil Templar’s guidance. Revelation’s story will begin with Masyaf, but why? Ezio was supposed to be in the Italian Renaissance right? Well, Ezio travels to the Assassin’s fortress in search of secret knowledge once held by Altair, but he finds the area overrun by Templars.

“He goes back to Masyaf in search of answers,” says creative director Alexandre Amancio. “He wants to find the library there to learn more about the Order. He follows the footsteps of Altair to Masyaf. What begins as a pilgrimage turns into a race against time.”

Ezio can’t complete his mission on his first visit, but he will return to Masyaf at the end of the game once he has collected every piece of the puzzle. Assuming Ezio succeeds in finding out what Altair knew, Masyaf is likely to be the place where we learn crucial information tying into larger Assassin’s Creed mysteries.

Constantinople

This will be the place where you will spend most of your time in the game, the main plot. But why are you here, far away from Italy? Well, to find the puzzles of the encrypted secrets of course!

Ezio may be the highest ranking Assassin in the world, but he is still an outsider in this vast and complex city. Relying on aid from other Assassins to learn the ropes, Ezio soon becomes familiar with the delicate political situations in the city that is essentially the cultural center of the sixteenth century.

“Constantinople is a massive city. It actually spans two continents – on one side is Europe, and other Asia,” explains Amancio. “This is the center of the known world at that time. The spice trading and all that related trade happened through Constantinople. It was one of the main reasons that Europeans tried to go around Africa – because Constantinople was this great hub controlled by the Ottomans. And, essentially, everything needed to go through that city.”

In Revelations, Constantinople is split into four distinct districts: Constantin. Beyazid, Imperial, and Galata. Each one sports a different visual style, from the poorer areas of Constantin to Galata’s bustling port. This ensures that even though players will be spending a lot of time in one city, each area has its own distinct vibe.

Cappadocia

In a departure from the cities one normally finds in Assassin’s Creed, Cappadocia isn’t just populated by regular civilians. This underground stronghold is a Templar city, but not just in the sense that it is under Templar control; it is populated by the sworn enemies of Ezio’s order.

“Part of it is above ground, but its true secret is underground,” Amancio says. “This is the first time something like this has been done in the franchise. We have this complete underground city.”

This underground is a Templar-filled city, a place extremely hostile for someone like the Master of the Assassin’s Order. However, the Templars are undoubtedly hiding key information at their seat of power, so Ezio will have to take the risk and explore Cappadocia’s caverns and twisting tunnels to discover the secrets taken by them, and perhaps some puzzles that will resolve the mysteries of Altair.

Rhodes (Multiplayer only)

Rhodes is not a map that you will be traveling to in the single-player campaign. Instead, this will be one of the few new maps for the multiplayer location. In the sixteenth century, the island of Rhodes is under the control of the Knights Hospitallers, who have built palaces and castles, effectively transforming the island into a fortress. However, Rhodes has a long history of occupation by different cultures, and in the timeframe of Revelations, the Ottomans are attempting to claim it for themselves. See how they relate to the game itself?

SOURCE via Game Informer