It’s a struggle that will take her through daring rescues, bold assassinations and trips to the bayou, Mexico and the wild frontier, and one that sees her learning the truth about herself and those she holds dear.
For once we have a heroine, Aveline de Grandpre, who leads a double-life, on the surface the spoilt mixed-race daughter of a wealthy French merchant in 1760s New Orleans, but underneath a crusading Assassin, battling against slavery, colonial tyranny and the Templars. Liberation HD also has two other things going for it: a simple but satisfying plot, and a protagonist you can actually root for.
It keeps all the modern day framework stuff to a minimum, takes a lighter approach, and has a similar focus on ancient Mayan ruins and conflicts with a predominantly Spanish ruling class. Yet, coming to it fresh from Assassin’s Creed 4, Liberation HD seems like a stepping stone between ACIII and its pirate-themed sequel. The Vita original was released to tie-in with Assassin’s Creed III, with the same colonial American setting and roughly the same period – and even a guest appearance from a well-known member of the cast. The good news with Liberation HD is that it’s mostly a case of the former. Others merely expose the limitations of the original, proving that on a big console with a big screen it just can’t cut the mustard. Some, give the game the extra space it needs to shine, removing hardware constraints and improving the action in a range of subtle ways. Now, whether they’re reworking an old console game or making a handheld game available on other platforms, these HD remakes tend to go down in one of two ways. Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD sees 2012’s PlayStation Vita game remade for PC and last-gen consoles, with a few adjustments to the gameplay and some fairly serious graphical enhancements.
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