Children feature in Assassin's Creed III - but can they be killed?

Children will feature in Assassin's Creed series for the first time, but will players be able to kill them, should they be able to?

[Summons75]

hopefully not and I really don't care what N4G trolls have to say I have morals

[Seraphim]

I just have to ask.... why the F is this even a story!!?? If in fact children can be killed in AC3 then a hot topic no doubt. But why even ask such a stupid Fn question atm.... Mindless trash like this that makes N4G a crap site these days

[LoaMcLoa]

Yeah, because killing an adult is ok!

[Summons75]

iI'm all for getting rid of people who kill other people or other horrendous acts so yes it is okay.....but I'm sure letting serial killers warlords and sex offenders free and live in our communities is PERFECTLY fine our children or innocent people won't get hurt what so ever

[Angrymorgan]

Well yea, killing adults who are gonna potentially kill you is fine, however killing kids, innocent kids is wrong and a totally different situation.

[Jobesy]

@Summons75, you have morals, but playing as an assassain killing hundreds of characters is ok for you? Maybe "morals" is the wrong word choice, you should have said you have "standards".

Ot, if they did not include scalping due to historical inaccuracies, then killing children should be in the game because you know, historically speaking, children do die.

[Summons75]

yeah you kill the templars who have hurt and don't unspeakable things to innocent people......get real they deserve to die

what has a child done outside of be a child?

[DarkBlood]

everybody gets the same respect so if that child was an assasin or something bad of that nature no matter how much i dont want too i wont let morals get in the way of doing what needs to be done

im not speaking in a way where i want to kill a child for the sake of it

[VanillaBear]

Trolls.....because we disagree with you

You could kill a child in a ga,e....you kill an adult....hell you coul a kill a baby panda if there was one in a game

Whats the difference..........oh yeah.....NONE

It's still killing at the end of the day, so if you have been fine killing a ton of people in the AC games then killing children won't be no differen't. If it was a feature then it's not like your forced to kill them

Think of the consequences in the game if you do kill a child...it's a feature which could relate to the gameplay, the choices you make...good and bad.

It's like Skyrim, I honestly don't see why you couldn't kill them in Skyrim when you could kill everything else. Fallout 3 had the same problem, you had Mayor Mcreedy of little lamp light threatering to blow your head off yet you had to pass a speech check or rescue people for him.....why not go in there and blow his head off.

This isn't real life, it's a video game

It takes the realism out of the game and all because of pollictical Correctness

"yeah you kill the templars who have hurt and don't unspeakable things to innocent people......get real they deserve to die

what has a child done outside of be a child? "

So what about games where you kill innocent people, hell even the innocent people in AC. GTA, Red Dead, Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout, Saints Row, Just Cause....all feature "innocent people" but really what person has NEVER killed one and stuck to the mission enemies.

[ChickeyCantor]

" I have morals"

I love killing mesh-models. Especially when they go ragdoll.
I would kill all mesh-models, including child-like.

I'm not trolling. I know the difference between real and fake.

"Well yea, killing adults who are gonna potentially kill you is fine"

So when you are the bad guy, it's justified as well?

Love moral riders. They don't seem to understand what they are driving. Nor do they have to. They have morals!

[kma2k]

i have no interest in killing children so really its a non issue to me! ....having said that **Mass Effect 3 spoiler warning** If the catalys is a killable child option i might be down for that!!!!!

[ElementX]

All "living" creatures in every game should be able to be killed. Animals, elderly, and children included. It has nothing to do with morals, they are pixels and AI.

Also, children have been killed by war and disease throughout time. It happens in movies and on TV. Children in games shouldn't be "immune" to death. You're able to kill the child's parents in games like Skyrim, is that any better?

[-Gespenst-]

Yeah but it's what all those things are symbolic of. The "pixels" represent (italicized) the killing of minors etc. That's not good. Of course there's nothing wroing with killing pixels, ignoring the nonsense behind that. It what the images are symbolic of that's the issue.

If I were to drop the n-bomb for example, yeah as a word alone it's meaningless, but it has cultural and historical significance that invests it with a meaning that's highly offensive towards, well, most people at this point, but particularly the black populace. Therefore it's what the images represent (italics again) in real life (italicize that too) that makes them problematic and offensive, that being the killing of defenseless children which needless to say is beyond deplorable.

[ElementX]

So the images are symbolic of children, but running around killing symbolic images of actual people is ok in COD? You're basically shooting representations of players across the globe. Is that any better? There are tons of minors playing COD online. Their characters are getting killed all the time.

[-Gespenst-]

Well I wouldn't say that's much better. Although it's the way war is trivialized and fetishized in those games that's kind of the main problem if you ask me.

People die in war, they get shot. That's an unfortunate truth. The problem with games like COD in my opinion is that they create fun and explosive, sensational entertainment out of that, sweeping the horrors of it under the rug. A lot of games are morally immature like that.

Add to that that it's a big corporation like Activision at the helm and you have something altogether quite sinister i'd say...

[dark-hollow]

I don't think they'll let us do that.

First, it would bring more harm done than good and gaming is not on a state that allow it to pull stuff like that and get away with it like the movie industry.

And am sure ubisoft doesn't want it game to get banned in any region for this silly matter.

[FarCryLover182]

No, this is Ubisoft. They won't allow it.

[Tommykrem]

I'm not really a fan of treating people worse than you treat children, but I doubt it will be possible to kill children and that seems okay.

[PinkPartyPony]

On PC yes with the help of a Mod, consoles never.

It's already frowned upon in the AC universe to kill civilians. I see no logical reason to allow the killing of children.

[LarVanian]

I doubt it. It will most likely be similar to Skyrim in which children were present but you could not harm them in any way.

[Moncole]

In Deus Ex you can kill a kid

[FarCryLover182]

In the original one? Or in Human Rev?

[Moncole]

Original one but there is no point in killing them but I am playing I again and killing every NPC

[LoaMcLoa]

If I'm not mistaken, you could do it in the Star Wars Episode 1-game.. Remember they would scream: "A monster! Help meee!"

[theyarentreallykids]

How do you know the adults in the game are really adults? Maybe they are really kids who got tall really fast and sound like adults. If this were the case would you even play the game?

[RaidensRising]

There would be no purpose to killing kids in video games other than for sick pleasure no matter how realistic a game is.

However, let's say kids are killed as a result of our actions (a careless grenade or sword swing) then it would be smart to include that outcome and the consequences that follow.

[ElementX]

what about children firing their father's rifle at you? Many teenagers back then were trained to hunt and shoot guns.

[s45gr32]

I say why not, now before you call me heartless or whatever hear me out. We seen films right and whether is films or even anime children die. Recently I saw Another is an anime were teens die but the way it was portrayed and the way the characters behaved added meaning and care. Games need to grow up badly and I like this article because it brings a point that yeah its immoral to kill children; however, if the main character starts to feel guilty or get hallucinations of all the younglings he has killed and affect the missions connor it partakes. Not only it adds the game some challenge but it emphisizes morality. Is time for the media to stop playing it safe and allow the game industry to grow

[Angrymorgan]

I agree with what your saying to a point. It's a tricky line to cross, the killing of kids. Personally I don't think it would add anything to the game at all. I know it's not real etc etc but if it's allowed, where would it stop?, why not be able to rape women or even kids because none of it is real... You see what I'm saying?
So my vote would be a no to killing kids.

[theyarentreallykids]

ANd we all know that kids play these games. Whats worse..having a kid play a violent video game or having anybody kill a "kid" in a video game? I know these games have Teen or Mature ratings but lets not kid ourselves. I also think most kids are smart enough to know that killing in a video game is a lot different than killing in real life. So if most kids know that and adults know this, why would it matter that "kids" get killed in video games?

[DarkBlood]

that wont stop them pc gamers from modding to allow them to be killable like skyrim

[shackdaddy]

I never see why people on here have a desire for children in video games to be killed. I mean, if a game had it, I would care less, but complaining because there aren't kill-able children? That's kinda messed up...

[ChickeyCantor]

It's not a desire, but it completely rips the immersion out.

"That's kinda messed up..."
Absolutely shortsighted. Most people who are ok with "killing" "children" in games are aware of the fact that they are not sentient. Just because you see something that reflects a child, doesn't mean it's an actual child. Most NPCs are defenseless, in the end you overpower them anyways. O and because they are stupid A.I.

I could never harm a child, let alone kill it. But in game? If the option is present, and they get in the way? Rip'm up!