Assassin's Creed 3 shows off its AnvilNext engine

We haven't had a look at Assassin's Creed 3 in a while and although I'm sure some people are pretty thankful for that, others are certainly not. This latest trailer shows off the AnvilNext engine - the newly developed engine built specifically for Assassin's Creed 3 - in all it's glory, and it's pretty darned great.

The AnvilNext engine lets Connor climb trees and cliff-faces, making his parkour abilities seem more natural over the previous Assassin's Creed games. It was also designed with a larger allowance for NPCs - as the video mentions it can handle 2000 characters at once - which is pretty intense. We already knew about the dynamic weather, but it looks outstanding in-game - which is a pretty apt way to sum up the trailer really. Freaking gorgeous. Enough of my waffling - you can watch the trailer embedded below or in our videos library - going full screen for HD of course.