User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/05 -- ACWiki's Fan Section and AC3 first trailer/@comment-182.239.197.102-20120307083538/@comment-213.143.108.116-20120308155810

Agreed. That setting is just so boring. Years ago there was the rumour that this game would be set in feudal Japan, Shogunate era. You know what happened after the Shogunate? Meiji. The Meiji restoration toppled the Shogunate over, making it possible for Japan to evolve into a highly industrialized country. That, in my opinion, was also an interesting part of human history. But yeah, Ubisoft chose America and now we have to "deal with it".