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Assassin's Creed 3 is the most pre-ordered Ubisoft game of all time, according to Ubisoft.

Apparently US shop giant GameStop received double the amount of pre-orders for AC3 than it did for AC: Revelations, Ubisoft said.

Back in the UK, GAME said 190 stores will host midnight launches for AC3. Doors open midnight on Tuesday next week in time for Assassin's Creed 3's 31st October launch.

GAME's flagship Stratford store (ever since its Oxford Street outlet shut down) will lead the charge. Its insides will be decorated to look like the wintry American frontier.

Assassin's Creed 3 relocates the series to a new time period, setting and main character, as players explore Revolutionary America with half-Native American hero Connor.

"The story of Assassin's Creed has always been about history mixing with the present," the handsomely bearded Tom Phillips wrote in Eurogamer's Assassin's Creed 3 preview. "It's also true of the many finely-tuned components in Assassin's Creed 3. The game distils the best of the series so far, smiles knowingly at those who've stuck by it from the beginning, and aptly serves as a fresh place to look and wonder."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-26-assassins-creed-3-is-ubisofts-most-pre-ordered-game-ever

So, more than double the preorders of revelations? Not sure if they mean preorders for the same time before release or more than 2x as much preorders as whole Revelations preorders but even if they mean both for the same timeframe before release, VGC numbers:

2011 Revelations:

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (X360) 2 78,306 438,051

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PS3) 2 38,889 257,996

2012 Assassin's Creed 3

Assassin's Creed III (X360) 2 86,016 565,400

Assassin's Creed III (PS3) 2 51,407 359,713

According to BenVT,in 4week's ago AC3 360 version already pre-ordered over 1 million in US

I preordered it at HMV and i can't wait to play it in just 5 days :)

Sony picked a good game to bundle and get exclusive content, should give a nice boost with the new Slimmer PS3.

Yeah and they advertise for it a lot here in germany. I see ads for the bundle everyday, i'm sure it will be a success.

I dont know if this claim is true......there was Red Steel after all

Same in Canada I musted of seen about a dozen ads on this bundle so far.

Same here in Sweden. It's a tempting add when you see it on TV.

What does the bundle look like? Is it the game included for $269 or is it priced higher?

I don't think a price was mentioned, they just showed off the bundle and the new Slimmer PS3 at the end, I assume the price will be the high end $269 price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOwpDbpXtcw: Not the exact ad but the end of it is the same.