User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-03-'12 — Leaked AC3 info!/@comment-92.5.133.62-20120303210012/@comment-71.92.37.168-20120304215337

Actually the game is made to be more on the "offensive". In all the other games Altair and Ezio were defensive fighters; countering and secretly assassinating. Matt Miller's article says that it'll be a lot more violent and offensive