Video games case study: Assassin's Creed 3 : Liberation

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The genre of the game is action-adventure, stealth. The avatar you play as is Aveline, the first female assassin in the series. With her you can switch between three outfits: an assassin's outfit, a slave disguise, and a posh dress. The game is initially set in 1700s New Orleans, but you are able to travel to other places later in the game. The controls are more or less the same as the rest of the Assassin's creed games, but slightly changed to adapt to PS Vita. For example, if you wanted to run in an Assassin's creed game using a PS3 controller, you would have to hold both the R1 and X buttons, but to run with the PS Vita controls, you only have to hold down the R2 button. There was already a previous Assassin's Creed game released on the PSP, so this was the second AC game released as a portable game. However, the controls were more reminiscent of those on a console game and it was later released for some consoles in HD The multiplayer options of the game was extremely limited and was essentially a mini game of dispatching troops to nodes on a map, this was a far cry from the mechanics of the single player game and was a disappointment to fans. The limitations of the game was mostly down to the PS Vita's limits such as poor graphics compared to the mainline releases and laggy visuals with frequent framerate drops. However the game also had Issues with the AI of NPC's glitching and not responding correctly to the player.

The company that develops and publishes the assassins creed franchise is Ubisoft, a french game company headquartered in Montreuil, France they own multiple successful video game franchises such as Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs which are all story driven Action Adventure games as well as more pure FPS games such as Rainbow Six siege and Tom Clancy's: The Division.