Totems?

That's is what I fear as well, there were no cities in America in that time, and my favourite part of AC is normally just running around the cities....

I was getting quite excited over the suggestions that it would be set in a Victorian era London, as that would definitely fit the bill, but Ubi are going to have to work hard to convince me that this works in terms of gameplay

Almost. I was thinking more about Luigi.  And no exclusive, multiplat shameless plagiarism.   

hm interesting, but won't comment until I see some gameplay footage. Same concerns that have been brought up.

I'm really hoping this is some kind of early April Fool's joke. I don't think that setting will work at all unless they're trying to totally revamp the game.

It's pretty much confirmed now.

Can't wait, the franchise needs rebooting at this point, finally excited for an AC game again!

Sounds very very boring.

The Crusades... Florence and the birth of the modern Era... Rome... Constantinople. All very interesting settings.

I really hope this rumor is false, I can't think of a more uininteresting setting.

I have this feeling this might only one part of the game.

The devs need to kill off Desmond. They failed to raise and bring up a proper protagonist in four games. All he does is hop around like a jackass and act like being in the animus is actually doing something for him. In the beginning he had the potential to be one of the coolest characters from the build up, but its faded. Seriously.

There were cities.  Philadelphia was the second largest English speaking city in the world after London durning that time period.