Assassin's Creed (series)

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The Assassin's Creed series is an award-winning video game series that currently consists of eight main games, seventeen spin-off games, several short films and various transmedia projects. Each of the main games have spawned novelizations, adapting and adding to the story of their respective game.

The entire franchise is developed mainly by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft, with the exception of Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles and the mobile version of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which were developed by Gameloft, a company owned by Ubisoft.

The series has made appearances on the following video game platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone, iPad, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Wii U. The gameplay, while varying slightly from game to game, falls in the historic action-adventure genre, with a heavy emphasis on stealth, combat and free-running.

Series

Main article: Games and media

Video games

Main games

• Assassin's Creed (2007)
• Assassin's Creed II (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011)
• Assassin's Creed III (2012)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)

Spin-off games

• Assassin's Creed (mobile game) (2007)
• Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles (2008)
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (2009)
• Assassin's Creed II (mobile game) (2009)
• Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (2009)
• Assassin's Creed II: Multiplayer (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (mobile game) (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Multiplayer Rearmed (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (mobile game) (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Recollection (2011)
• Assassin's Creed III (mobile game) (2012)
• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Pirates (2013)
• Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Memories (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Identity (2014)
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (TBA)

Other media

Films

• Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Ascendance (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Embers (2011)
• Assassin's Creed (2016)

Books

Non-fiction

• Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition Art Book (2007)
• Assassin's Creed: Official Game Guide (2007)
• Assassin's Creed II: Collector's Edition Official Game Guide (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Collector's Edition Official Game Guide (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations Official Game Guide (2011)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed III (2012)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)

Fiction

• Assassin's Creed: Renaissance (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel) (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade (2011)
• Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel) (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (novel) (2013)
• Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Blackbeard - The Lost Journal (2013)
• Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - New Employee Handbook (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel) (2014)

Comics

• Assassin's Creed (comic) (2007)
• Assassin's Creed (Penny Arcade webcomic) (2007)
• Assassin's Creed (comic series)
  • Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond (2009)
  • Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus (2010)
  • Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter (2011)
  • Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk (2012)
  • Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr (2013)
  • Assassin's Creed 6: Leila (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: The Fall (2010 – 2011)
• Assassin's Creed: The Chain (2012)
• Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag - Awakening (2013)
• Assassin's Creed: Brahman (2013)

Board games

• Assassin's Creed: Arena (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Monopoly (2014)

Future

Ubisoft has made several statements about future installments. They said that settings such as World War II, Feudal Japan and Egypt are not likely to be featured, as they are considered "boring" and unoriginal for Assassin's Creed. They also said that they would refrain from creating trilogies for one single protagonist, like they did for Ezio Auditore.