If they treat AC3 similarly in the treatment of real life characters as the last AC installments, they will then most likely justify your attack against the American historical figures by vilifying them. In AC2 they took Pope Alexander VI, a pope with a negative history, and vilified him to make you'r attack on him justifiable. Although I'm not sure of who Ubisoft would use as the American bad guy, Benedict Arnold? So no I don't think Americans will have a problem with how AC3 will be handled, unless maybe if the game has the main character kill an innocent or righteous Goerge Washington and/or other founding father.

Off-topic, but too many? Doubtful. My daughter's great-great grandfather is still alive today, while her great-great-great-grandmother (on another side of the family) passed away in the 60s. Typically, each generation has roughly 25 years in-between them, so someone's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather today would have been their age now 175 years ago, give-or-take, potentially.

Well, was there a lot of media outrage over Death of a President? That was just thinly veiled death porn for Bush haters, and there may have been some carping about it but not enough for me to remember. The only thing I remember about it was that it was a piss poor movie and I wanted my two hours back. But the media bitches because that's what the media does about everything. No bitching = no story. See: this article and Stephen Totilo bitching about a conspiracy he made up all in his little bald head.

Ubi seems to be showing early game stuff at the moment, and if you have to go after, say, Ben Franklin because he turns out to be a Templar later in the game, then maybe there's a very good reason for them not showing this killing of Americans that you're apparently so desperate to see. I'm going to trust the people who are actually making the game and know what's in it and what is and is not a good idea to show at the moment over Kotaku, which is handily the worst video game website on the planet and you should be ashamed of yourself for reading it, let alone exposing innocent forum goers to it.

id hardly think Americans would care.......after all they do end up winning the war.

I don't think Americans give a shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdQ1ixsRs00&t=5m54s

Cynical marketing by a big publisher.

Easy for them to just copy Hollywood. In historical movies the British are always the bad guys nowadays.

Where does G.W. Bush fit in the Game of Thrones universe?

Yes.

One side of my family is traced back to the Mayflower, then somone worked directly under General Patton, and there is a grant waiting at Harvard (still).

The other side is from a Native American tribe somewhere north of Washington, and any of my family members that new anything about them are dead.

(cool story bro)

I like the use of the Bush mask in Game of thrones it is a shame to see it removed.

Also, this article is annoying why the hell would most people care from America? If this was not inspired by some article I would call it a fantastical farce. The media beg to make things out of nothing to spin a story. Complete dramatization of the apathy most people will feel.

As a Brit, I am not concerned about killing my ancestors in Assassin's Creed III as last time I checked my family tree, I was not descended from pixels.