The following info comes from creative director Alex Hutchinson has shared.

- features a “two-handed combat system”
- you can now dual-wield weapons
- example: tomahawk and knife
- Chain Dart can be used to pierce the necks of your opponents

“The combat system in Assassin’s Creed III has been completely redone. We burned it to the ground and we’re building it back up. At its base it’s a two-handed combat system, so all of the weapons are two-handed. Some of the cool new combinations include a tomahawk and knife. Connor also has a bow. At first our research said basically that bows had been replaced by guns, but what we found was that a lot of the different tribes were still using them to hunt from horseback because the guns were so inaccurate. We thought it was a cool weapon, and still historically accurate.”

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