Nothing is True, Everything is permitted

So way back in the year 2007 Ubisoft released what looked to be a pretty stand out game from the start, you play the part of Desmond and his Ancestor Altair who lived in the time of the Third Crusades. The game is, of course Assassins Creed, diving us quickly into a deep and enriching plot, we follow his exploits as he fights against the Templars, with a battle system not seen before in any game.

It had two defined modes, low profile which had normal, non attraction gaining actions associated with each button much used for stealth, and it had high profile, where game is basically kicked into a higher gear you move faster, you can initiate free run sequences and more importantly, you can assassinate with style.

After this triumph they moved onto the second in the series, two years later we followed the actions of desmond as he escapes Abstergo and takes on a new persona in the Animus, another relative, Etzio Auditore de Firenze, about three hundred years after the events in AC. You follow his rise to become an assassin, as he avenges the murder of his father, uncovering a conspiracy that ran all the way to the Pope in Rome. The game brought new weapons, like the double blade and the poison blade and of course, the tiny gun. It also added new counter kills in combat, but as with the first one the limited few means you will find more inventive and flourishing ways to kill your enemies.

Finally we have the third and penultimate installment, were Etzio moves into rome and must rebuild it whilst removing the Borgia influence by crushing the Family of Borgia. Not much changed from the previous game in terms of battle system, only you can now carry heavy weapons and the executions are much more showy, making a counter kill and even the new execution streak ability much more fun to use.

The overall progression through the series has been astounding, people wanted new counters, they got them, more weapons, they got them, even more complicated free run sequences, it happened. All this without compromising what made the game one of the flagship for Ubisoft, the stealth kill. So if you haven't played it you are truly missing out, and if you don't like it then you don't need to be reading this blog :P