Assassin's Creed (series)

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The Assassin's Creed series is an award-winning video game series that currently consists of nine 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 primarily 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)
  • Battle of Forlì (2010)
  • Bonfire of the Vanities (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010)
  • Copernicus Conspiracy (2010)
  • Animus Project Update 1.0 (2010)
  • Animus Project Update 2.0 (2011)
  • The Da Vinci Disappearance (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011)
  • The Ancestors Character Pack (2011)
  • Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack (2012)
  • The Lost Archive (2012)
• Assassin's Creed III (2012)
  • Benedict Arnold (2012)
  • The Hidden Secrets Pack (2012)
  • The Battle Hardened Pack (2013)
  • The Tyranny of King Washington (2013)
    • The Infamy
    • The Betrayal
    • The Redemption
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
  • Aveline (2013)
  • Kraken Ship Pack (2013)
  • Death Vessel Pack (2013)
  • Crusader & Florentine Pack (2013)
  • Blackbeard's Wrath (2013)
  • Freedom Cry (2013)
  • Illustrious Pirates Pack (2014)
  • Guild of Rogues (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014)
  • Templar Legacy Pack (2015)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)
  • Revolutionary Armaments Pack (2014)
  • Dead Kings (2015)
  • Secrets of the Revolution Pack (2015)
  • Underground Armory Pack (2015)
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015)
  • The Dreadful Crimes (2015)
  • Steampunk Pack (2015)
  • Victorian Legends Pack (2015)
  • Jack the Ripper (2015)
  • Streets of London Pack (2016)
  • The Last Maharaja (2016)

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 (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood mobile game (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations mobile game (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Multiplayer Rearmed (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Recollection (2011)
• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation (2012)
• Assassin's Creed III mobile game (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Pirates (2013)
• Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Memories (2014)
• Assassin's Creed Chronicles
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (2015)
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (2016)
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: Identity (2016)
  • Beta (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodsail (2017)
• Assassin's Creed Online: Alliance (TBA)

Compilations

• Assassin's Creed: Ezio Trilogy (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Anthology (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Heritage Collection (2013)
• Assassin's Creed: The Americas Collection (2014)

Other media

Films

• Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Ascendance (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Embers (2011)
• French Revolution (2014)
• The Syndicate (2015)
• Assassin's Creed (2016)

Books

Non-fiction

• Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition Art Book (2007)
• Assassin's Creed: Official Game Guide (2007)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed II (2009)
• Assassin's Creed II: Collector's Edition Official Game Guide (2009)
• Assassin's Creed II: Official Game Guide (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Collector's Edition Official Game Guide (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Official Game Guide (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations Collector's Edition Art Book (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations Official Game Guide (2011)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed III (2012)
• Assassin's Creed III: Official Game Guide (2012)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: The Complete Visual History (2015)
• The Art of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (2015)
• Assassin's Creed: Through the Ages: A Visual Guide (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: The Official Coloring Book (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus (2016)

Fiction

• Assassin's Creed: Renaissance (2009)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010)
• Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade (2011)
• Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (2011)
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken (2012)
• Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (2013)
• Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Blackbeard - The Lost Journal (2014)
• Assassin's Creed Unity: Abstergo Entertainment - Employee Handbook (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (2014)
• Assassin's Creed: Underworld (2015)
• Assassin's Creed Young Adult Novels:
  • Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants (2016)
  • Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants - Tomb of the Khan (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: The Movie Novel (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: Heresy (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization (2016)

Comics

• Assassin's Creed (2007)
• Assassin's Creed webcomic (2007)
• Assassin's Creed (Les Deux Royaumes comics):
  • 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: Awakening (2013 - ongoing)
• Assassin's Creed: Brahman (2013)
• Assassin's Creed (2015 - ongoing)
• Assassin's Creed: Templars (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: FCBD 2016 Edition (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus (2016)
• Assassin's Creed: Conspirations (2016)
  • Assassin's Creed: Conspirations Tome 1 (2016)
  • Volume 2 (TBA)

Compilations

• Assassin's Creed: Subject Four (2012)

Board games

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

Future

Ubisoft has made several statements about future installments. In 2012, Assassin's Creed III's creative Alex Hutchinson said that settings such as World War II, Feudal Japan and Egypt – popular requests among fans – are not likely to be featured, as they are considered "boring" and unoriginal for Assassin's Creed games. He also said that they would refrain from creating trilogies for one single protagonist, like they did for Ezio Auditore. Following Unity, Darby McDevitt spoke of the company's intention to bring more focus back onto the series' modern-day storyline for future titles.

References

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