E3-some: What We’re Looking Forward to at E3 2011

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Assassin’s Creed Revelations

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What We Know Already: Another final installment threequel in another mega-franchise, Revelations closes out the story of assassin Ezio Auditore as he journeys to Constantinople. Once there, he hunts for five powerful artifacts that could change the future of the Assassin brotherhood’s fight against the Templars’ totalitarian conspiracy.

The Big Mystery: More about Altair. Revelations will be Ezio’s third game, but the Crusades-era hero who kicked off the franchise only starred in one truly worthy big console game. This Assassin’s Creed release lets you play as Altair once again, so perhaps we’ll explore the gaps in his life that remain lost to history.

What We’ll Probably Find Out: How it feels to use Ezio’s new bomb-making skills and weapons. The Italian assassin’s an older character now with new skills acquired since the end of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, so you’ll have the chance to use new implements like the hookblade and take advantage of a more powerful Eagle Sense. Expect new details about the retooled multiplayer, too.

(More on TIME.com: Review: ‘Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood’ Doesn’t Disappoint)

Battlefield 3

What We Know Already: EA’s best shot at dethroning the Call of Duty series’ first-person shooter hegemony puts players in a near-future Iraq, where counterinsurgency efforts get disrupted by a massive earthquake. Talk about destabilizing a region!

The Big Mystery: Just how big the battles will be. What we’ve seen so far from EA’s DICE studio shows a mix of tense, close quarters combat and big outdoor skirmishes for the single-player campaign. The stakes get higher and higher in ripped-from-the headlines war games and Battlefield 3 looks to show both the in-your-face close-ups and sweeping panorama of military engagements.

What We’ll Probably Find Out: How to fly a fighter jet. The Battlefield brand’s built on massive multimodal multiplayer structure, meaning that dozens of players can be on a map doing different combat actions at the same time. Your buddy can be sniping from a tower, you can be on the frontlines in a tank and another friend can be raining death from above in an F-16. DICE’s new Frostbite 3 engine already looks amazing. Now, we need to see how it handles in online play.

(More on TIME.com: EA Reveals ‘Battlefield 3’, the Game It Hopes Will Take Out ‘Call of Duty’)

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