It's different than their previous games. The lines of good and evil were blurred in the time of AC II and its spinoffs, it was about intrigue between families where no-one was really aligned one way or another, and we've looked back historically at the Crusades as one where no-one was in the right again (brutality on all sides, modern fundamentalist Christians aren't that invested in it because it was Catholic and the Catholics have disowned it, and the Muslims weren't demonized in ACI)
In this case you're coming up to an event that is clearly loved in a black-and-white kind of way in America. I mean, there are all sorts of games out there where you kill Americans, random, sometimes innocent, Americans, so clearly there's no problem with slaying Americans as such, but if you're playing a game where you are, albeit indirectly, fighting against the American Revolution, well, i don't think that would go over well. I'd imagine the French would have a problem with an Assassin's Creed game where the main character is in the employ of the Aristocrats in 1789, assigned to massacre sans-cullotes.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
