{"id":6409,"date":"2012-11-03T16:33:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2012-11-03T16:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:33:01","slug":"review-the-art-of-assassins-creed-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=6409","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Assassins&#8217; Creed III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6432\" title=\"51-L2pFv77L._SS500_\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/51-L2pFv77L._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while a Video Game comes along that has such a\u00a0unique\u00a0production and art style, the developer decides to take all that wonderful and beautiful concept and\u00a0production\u00a0art and to compile it into an art book.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the<strong><em> Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em> <\/strong>franchise has done this.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Art of Assassin&#8217;s Creed III <\/strong><\/em>is no exception<strong>. Titans Books<\/strong> has brought all of this beautiful art right to he hands of the fans, and with it comes the easy understanding about how much work and detail really went into this game.<\/p>\n<p>This table top book by <strong>Andy McVittie<\/strong> is \u00a0roughly\u00a0144 pages long and jam packed with some of the most amazing art from this franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Along with all the art, several pieces come included with commentary from the artist William Wu himself, which is a welcome addition to the entire\u00a0development\u00a0process.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights I came across while going through this great art book:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6440\" title=\"39\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/39-936x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6441\" title=\"100_0881\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/100_0881-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6443\" title=\"100_0890\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/100_0890-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6442 alignleft\" title=\"100_0888\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/100_0888-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6444 alignnone\" title=\"100_0891\" src=\"http:\/\/wakingideas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/100_0891-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"743\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, This book is breath taking. Every page is jam packed with beautiful and intricate art from this already amazing looking game. You can turn the page and tell that they took their time with nailing the look.<\/p>\n<p>From the beautiful oil paintings and CGI models even down to the basic sketches of animals<em><\/em><strong><em>,\u00a0The Art of Assassin&#8217;s Creed III<\/em><\/strong> deserves to be owned by true fans of this game, or just art lovers in general.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Art of Assassin&#8217;s Creed III<\/strong><\/em> is now for sale from <strong>Titans Books<\/strong>. It&#8217;s Standard List Price is $29.99 but can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Art-Assassins-Creed-III\/dp\/1781164258\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351982379&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=art+of+assassins+creed+3\">found here for sale at Amazon.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nEvery once in a while a Video Game comes along that has such a\u00a0unique\u00a0production and art style, the developer decides&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=6409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Art Of Assassins&#8217; Creed III&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,79,577,756],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comics-videogames","tag-art-books","tag-assassins-creed","tag-review","tag-video-games","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Art Of Assassins&#039; 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