History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedIIILiberation

The protagonist, [[ActionGirl Aveline de ]], grew up in a privileged environment, being the child of a wealthy French aristocrat and his plaçee, an African slave. She was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood shortly after her biological mother's disappearance, following which she was raised by her loving stepmother. At the age of 18, she discovers a complex slave trafficking operation orchestrated by a mysterious individual known only as the "Company Man" and vows to dismantle it, unknowingly starting a journey that will challenge her beliefs and test her loyalties.

** [[spoiler:Played straight with the Company Man. The individual is in fact Aveline's stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle who is not only the wife of Philippe (an aristocrat) but she is a Templar]].

The protagonist, [[ActionGirl Aveline de Grandpré]], grew up in a privileged environment, being the child of a wealthy French aristocrat and his plaçee, an African slave. She was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood shortly after her biological mother's disappearance, following which she was raised by her loving stepmother. At the age of 18, she discovers a complex slave trafficking operation orchestrated by a mysterious individual known only as the "Company Man" and vows to dismantle it, unknowingly starting a journey that will challenge her beliefs and test her loyalties.

* BigBad: The "Company Man". Much of the game revolves around uncovering his identity. [[Spoiler:Turns out it's actually Madeleine de L'Isle, the second wife of Philippe de Grandpre]].

* BigBad: The "Company Man". Much of the game revolves around uncovering his identity.

* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution: ''Liberation'' is more about the events leading up to the revolution, but there's references here and there about the conflicts in the north. One mission has you smuggle supplies to the patriots, which is very much TruthInTelevision. [[spoiler:Another has Aveline travel north and join Connor in a mission to take down a Loyalist encampment]].

An HD re-release of the game (marketed as Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD) was announced in September 2013 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/XBox360 and PC, via digital download, and released on January 14, 2014. It features additional missions, improved graphics, reworked sound and various other tweaks to bring the game closer to its console brethren in quality. A remastered version is in the works, along with a remaster of ''Assassins Creed III''. Both are included in the season pass for ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'', but will get standalone releases later.

* MythologyGag: Aveline has the Chain-Kill ability which allows her to instantly kill a certain number of targets depending on the weapon. This is pretty much Sam Fisher's Mark and Execute ability from another Ubisoft game, ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction''. In the same fashion, Aveline can use this after performing a successful stealth kill. However, Aveline's version is more convenient in that she can mark her targets in the middle of battle (time stops while she picks targets), and the execution can begin immediately afterward.

* LateArrivalSpoiler + AllThereInTheManual: Either they didn't expect everyone to diligently collect all the diary pages early on or they didn't expect people to read them. Doing so makes it absolutely clear that [[spoiler:Madeleine is a Templar, who sent Jeanne to Mexico as a slave]]. This is also spoiled by Black Flag's additional material, gained by hacking computers in said game.
* [[spoiler:LivingWithTheVillain]]: One-sided. [[spoiler: Aveline doesn't know that her stepmother is a Templar, but Madeleine knows this all too well, adjusting her plans in accordance to Aveline's activities as an Assassin.]]

%%* [[spoiler:LivingWithTheVillain]]

** Her Slave persona does let her climb around, and it has a bunch of unique blending options, but her notoriety also rises higher for doing anything unusual, including climbing. The Slave persona is also weaker in combat, due to not being as heavily armed as her Assassin persona.

* UsefulNotes/NewOrleans: The setting, during the Spanish occupation. Though the Spanish are initially seen as oppressors they ease up a bit over time.

An HD re-release of the game (marketed as Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD) was announced in September 2013 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/XBox360 and PC, via digital download, and released on January 14, 2014. It features additional missions, improved graphics, reworked sound and various other tweaks to bring the game closer to its console brethren in quality.

Notably, her [[GeneticMemory genetic memories]] are not relived by Desmond, because they have been synthesized into an entertainment product by Abstergo Industries. In making a game centered around Aveline's memories, they have [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie changed or edited out various crucial scenes]], so that Aveline appears to be a confused Assassin that [[spoiler:eventually joins the Templars]]. Luckily, Erudito breached Abstergo's version upon release and hacked the truth back in, provided the players look for it.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: By the end of the game, Aveline has eradicated the most powerful members of the Templar Order, but in doing so, lost her father, killed her stepmother, who turned out to have been the head Templar all along, and saw her mentor commit suicide. And while her biological mother is alive and well, she chose to stay in Mexico, meaning Aveline probably didn't see her all that often]].

* CallingTheOldManOut: After having discovered the identity of the "Company Man", [[spoiler: who attempts to recruit her into the Templar Order]], Aveline goes to Agaté, who, by then, is less than friendly to her. She calls him out on his failure to properly protect New Orleans from the Templars; suffice to say, stuff goes wrong very quickly after that.

* ClimbingClimax: Tying in with the former, Aveline [[spoiler: needs to climb all the way to the top of Agaté's treehouse, being plagued by hallucinations while she does so]].

* DesignatedGirlFight: In a sense, [[spoiler: the first Assassin's Creed game to have a female main protagonist is also the first Assassin's Creed game to have a female main antagonist]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Madeleine considered de Ferrer's actions in Chichen Itza a perversion of her own ideals and claimed that she was glad Aveline killed him. Aveline doesn't seem to buy into it]].

* MissingMom: Aveline's mother Jeanne disappeared when Aveline was twelve years old. [[spoiler: She is later revealed to have fled New Orleans of her own free will, due to her fear that the Assassins had tracked her down to kill her, inadvertently putting herself into Templar hands instead]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Aveline's father Philippe apparently had one upon Aveline's birth, regretting the time he had kept Jeanne enslaved and vowing to give her and their newborn daughter a free life. [[spoiler: A much more bitter example is provided by Agaté after Aveline has defeated him. He claims he was wrong to leave Jeanne for the Assassins all those years ago and that Aveline should've been his child, instead of Philippe's]].

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: Both de Ferrer and Madeleine use this argument against Aveline on more than one occasion, praising her when her actions indirectly benefit the Templars and claiming their aims are more similar than they might initially seem. Madeleine even points how Aveline and Agaté clash often, with the relationship between mentor and mentee having completely soured by the end of the game. Of course, Abstergo uses this to their advantage, twisting the story so that Aveline appears to join the Templar cause, when in truth she very much remains on the side of the Assassins]].

* TheRemnant: Like in the north, the Assassin Brotherhood is hardly thriving in New Orleans. There's the slightly unstable Mentor who hides in the bayou, Aveline (basically the only Assassin carrying out missions) and Gérald, who runs the information network used by the Assassins. [[spoiler: Considering Agaté commits suicide, that doesn't leave much of a Brotherhood to speak of by the end. However, a [=PlayStation=]-exclusive mission in ''Black Flag'' shows that Aveline is still active as an Assassin years later]].

* StarCrossedLovers: Agaté with [[spoiler: Jeanne; due to Jeanne's fear of the Assassin Brotherhood, he could not stay with her. While Jeanne's feelings would eventually subside, it's implied Agaté never stopped loving her and intensely regretted his decision of leaving her behind]].

* VictoriousChorus: "In the Service of Humanity", the track that plays when Aveline [[spoiler: is killing off all the Templars in the Saint Louis Cathedral]].

* TheRemnant: Like in the north, the Assassin Brotherhood is hardly thriving in New Orleans. There's the slightly unstable Mentor who hides in the bayou, Aveline (basically the only Assassin carrying out missions) and Gérald, who runs the information network used by the Assassins. [[spoiler: Considering Agaté commits suicide, that doesn't leave much of a Brotherhood to speak of by the end. However, a [=PlayStation=]-exclusive mission in ''IV'' shows Aveline still active as an Assassin]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Aveline's [[WickedStepmother stepmother]] Madeleine is The Company Man, the Templar agent pulling the string behind the scenes]].

** They also appear during moments when you're supposed to "analyze" something. For TheVerse, this makes sense: the Templars do not know how to use "[[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Eagle Vision]]", so they thought it was just an [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Aha!" moment]] after looking at something for a while. And, yes, Eagle Vision ''does not'' work that way.

''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation'' is a VideoGame in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, developed for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and later released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/Xbox360 and UsefulNotes/{{PC}}. Taking place between the years 1765 and 1780 in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during the Louisiana rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the city, it was released on October 30, 2012 in conjunction with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation'' is a VideoGame in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, developed for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and later released on PlayStation3, Xbox360 and PC. Taking place between the years 1765 and 1780 in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during the Louisiana rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the city, it was released on October 30, 2012 in conjunction with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation'' is a VideoGame in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, developed for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and later released on other platforms. Taking place between the years 1765 and 1780 in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during the Louisiana rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the city, it was released on October 30, 2012 in conjunction with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: This is the first game to feature an ancestor of someone other than Desmond Miles, though [[ComicBook/AssassinsCreedTheFall not the first point in the canon.]] ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' reveals the (in-universe) game was made from the genetic memories of Subject One.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Simply put, this is a video game portrayed as a video game in its own universe. After the Ubisoft logo, it even displays "ANIMUS" and "Abstergo" as if that were the operating system and production company. [[spoiler:There are even some fake credits after the fake ending. Warren Vidic is listed as a consultant]]!
** Perhaps best of all, though, is Erudito hacking into your system and sending it to the boot menu so the truth can be added to your game, looking for all the world like that's ''exactly'' what's happening to your system.

'''''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation''''' is a VideoGame in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, developed for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita, and later released on other platforms. Taking place between the years 1765 and 1780 in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during the Louisiana rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the city, it was released on October 30, 2012 in conjunction with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

* AmazonChaser: Gérald Blanc, the NonActionGuy infatuated with {{Badass}} ActionGirl Aveline de Grandpré. Sadly, we never get to see whether he finally won her over or not.

* NonActionGuy: Gérald Blanc. While also an Assassin, he was trained to be an information officer and, as such, possesses little combat skill. At one point, he directly participates in a mission, rather than simply giving Aveline directives or advice, in an attempt to impress Aveline. Aveline still ends up doing most of the heavy lifting, but a high-speed chase in a wagon that's ''[[IncendiaryExponent on fire]]'' has Gérald reconsider his attempt to be {{Badass}}, claiming the action of that day was enough to last him a good while. Aveline gently teases him about it, but doesn't really seem to mind.

* AnimalMotifs: The eagle symbolism returns; you'll notice Aveline's hat has a beak-shaped tip. Her name itself is probably also meant to refer to the Latin ''avis'', which stands for "bird", though the name is actually derived from an Italian city, Avella, and means "hazelnut". However, in a sort of demi-deconstructed-Franglish, it could be taken for "little bird".

* AnAxeToGrind: Aveline has access to a number of axes. Synching your PS3 with the PS Vita allows her to use Connor's iconic tomahawk as well.

An HD re-release of the game (marketed as Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD) was announced in September 2013 for PlayStation3, XBox360 and PC, via digital download, and released on January 14, 2014. It features additional missions, improved graphics, reworked sound and various other tweaks to bring the game closer to its console brethren in quality.

'''''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation''''' is a VideoGame in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series, developed for the PlayStationVita, and later released on other platforms. Taking place between the years 1765 and 1780 in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans during the Louisiana rebellion against the Spanish occupation of the city, it was released on October 30, 2012 in conjunction with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII''.

* MythologyGag: Aveline has the Chain-Kill ability which allows her to instantly kill a certain number of targets depending on the weapon. This is pretty much Sam Fisher's Mark and Execute ability from another Ubisoft game, ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCell Splinter Cell: Conviction]]''. In the same fashion, Aveline can use this after performing a successful stealth kill. However, Aveline's version is more convenient in that she can mark her targets in the middle of battle (time stops while she picks targets), and the execution can begin immediately afterward.

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Aveline wears a very fancy green dress and hat when in her "lady" mode. She isn't as skilled a fighter as in her "slave" and "assassin" modes, but she is still formidable, and can hide a fair number of weapons in her frills (including the series's favorite sleeve daggers).

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Aveline's [[WickedStepmother stepmother]] Madeline is The Company Man, the Templar agent pulling the string behind the scenes]].