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- "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted"
- ―Hassan-i Sabbah, grand-master of the assassins
Assassin's Creed is an action-adventure game featuring elements of Le Parkour and nonlinear gameplay. The game was released on November 14, 2007 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and was released on April 8, 2008 for Windows. The sequel Assassin's Creed II was released on November 17, 2009 for Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America and on November 20 in Europe. It has been announced that it will be a trilogy.
Background
- Main article: Story
The game -
Story
Desmond Miles, a bartender, is kidnapped by the company Abstergo Industries for use as a test subject in the "Animus", a device that can stimulate the recall of ancestral memories. Abstergo intends to put Desmond in the device to recall the role of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad, in the "Assassin Clan" during 1191 as part of the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. Desmond has trouble adjusting to the device, but eventually relives Altaïr's exploits over the next several days. The game then primarily takes Altaïr's point-of-view, with occasional swaps to Desmond, due to glitches in the Animus.
Altaïr is first shown attempting to retrieve one of a series of artifacts known as the "Pieces of Eden" from Solomon's Temple with the help of Malik and his brother, but is stopped by Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of the Knights Templar and sworn enemies of the assassins. While retrieving the treasure, Altaïr breaks all three tenets of the Assassin's Creed ("Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent," "Hide in plain sight" and "Do not compromise the Brotherhood") within the opening minutes of gameplay to attempt to kill de Sablé, but fails. In the commotion, Malik's brother is killed. When Altair returns to the Assassins' stronghold at Masyaf with apologies, Malik, who survived de Sable, came back with the artifact and curses of Altair's arrogance. After narrowly defeating a retaliatory attack by the Knights Templar, Al Mualim, leader of the Assassins, demotes Altaïr to a novice but gives him another chance to rise through the ranks of the Brotherhood. Al Mualim assigns Altaïr the task of assassinating nine key figures across the Holy Land in Jerusalem, Acre and Damascus, to attempt to bring peace between the Crusader and Saracen forces. Each target is based on a real life character who from around 1191, including Majd Addin (Regent of Jerusalem), Garnier de Nablus (Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller), Jubair al Hakim (a eminent scholar in Damascus), Abu'l Nuqoud (the wealthiest man in Damascus), Robert de Sablé, Grand Master Sibrand of the Knights Templar and William V, Marquess of Montferrat (Regent of Acre).
Altaïr completes each task, learning how each target is connected to Robert and the Templars, and how together they aim to end the Crusade and place the Holy Land under their own control. With men on both sides killed, he discovers that de Sablé's last ploy is to attempt to unite Christian and Muslim against their new-common enemy, the assassins themselves. Altaïr defeats de Sablé before Richard the Lionheart, failing to convince the king that an end to the war would be welcome to both sides. From de Sablé he discovers that Al Mualim is himself a member of the Knights Templar, and used Altaïr to kill the other members so he could keep the treasure for himself. Altaïr quickly returns to Masyaf to accost his master, who reveals the truth: the Piece of Eden which he had received from one of the men in the Temple after Altaïr's transgression creates illusions. He denounces religion and other seemingly supernatural events (e.g. the parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Plagues of Egypt and the presence of the Greek Gods in the Trojan War) as illusions caused by it, then states his intention to use the artifact to compel mankind into a brainwashed state and so bring an end to all conflict. Altaïr is eventually able to see through deceptions created by the artifact to kill Al Mualim. When Altaïr recovers the artifact, the Piece of Eden activates, showing a holographic view of the world with numerous locations of other Pieces of Eden marked across the globe.
When the process is complete, Desmond learns that Abstergo is a modern-day version of the Knights Templar, and are already seeking other artifacts at locations identified in Altaïr's memory. He further learns that the modern-day assassins had tried to rescue him before the memory was complete but had failed. Desmond was to be killed after completion, but a researcher named Lucy Stillman saves him from death. Though Desmond remains trapped in the Abstergo laboratory, his experience in the Animus has created a "bleeding effect" of Altaïr's life in his own, allowing him to see strange messages painted on the walls of his room, as well as allowing Desmond to use Altaïr's eagle vision (which proves to him that Lucy, who earlier hints by tugging on her ring finger, referring to the loss of assassin's ring fingers, probably willing Desmond to realise she is an assassin. Desmond does eventually realise she is indeed an ally, as she glows blue, through the use of eagle vision). The messages all deal with various forms of the end of the world from different cultures, including several references to the date December 21, 2012, the date that Abstergo plans to launch a satellite that will "permanently end the war". It is hinted at that this will be by the same method that Al Mualim hypnotized Masyaf, only on a larger scale. The game ends with Desmond wondering what these images all mean and who could have drawn them.
Awards
Assassin's Creed won the following awards at E3 2006:
- Game Critics Awards
- Won: Best Action/Adventure Game.
- IGN
- 'Won: Best Action Game, PS3 Game oREW-up: Best Console Game, Best PS3 Artistic Design, PS3 Award for Technological Excellence
- Nominations: Game of the Show, Best Graphics Technology
- GameSpot
- Won: Best PS3 Game of the Show
- Runner-up: Game of the Show, Best Trailer, Best Graphics, Best Action Adventure Game
Trivia
- The popular phrase used to describe Assassin's Creed's gameplay, "A'shaia wak akla mukla bel kullukum mumkin" Arabic for, "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."[1] is in fact a quotation generally attributed to the founder of the Hashshashin, Hassan-i Sabbah.
- The case of the game appeared in the "The Dinner Party" episode of popular UK Television series The IT Crowd. Roy picked it up on his way out of the apartment of a woman who he had just walked home asking "Could I have a lend of this?"