Assassin's Creed Revelations: Official Game Guide
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- "Every detail has been compiled here in order to enhance your gaming experience; All information has been carefully presented so you can advance through the game at your own pace"
- ―Martin Schelling on AC:Revelations, the complete official guide.
The Assassin's Creed: Revelations Guide Book is a 239 long page book which tells mostly everything about Assassin's Creed: Revelations, including a Walkthrough of all sequences in the game, help with controls, side quests, multiplayer, and a detailed Analysis of all things inside the game. It also includes a lot of never-seen before artwork.
Official Game Guide
Primer
The Primer chapters are designed to help the average Assassin's Creed fan ease into the series with confidence, focusing on basic features for both the Xbox 360 and PS3. This includes Button definitions, Game Objectives, Maps, Movements and Abilities, Combat system and Threats and detection.
Walkthrough
The Walkthrough chapter of the Official Guide is designed to help and advise players throughout the main missions. It offers explanations, tutorials, ands tactics whenever new features, abilities or game concepts are introduced into the game. Overall it presents the best path to receiving a 100% completion in the game.
Side Quests
Side Quests chapters offer a complete guide to secondary activities such as sub-quests, minigames, and collectibles. It also gives the player tips and advice about Templar Dens, Den Defense, Recruiting Assassins, Master Assassin Mission, Book Quests, Secret Locations, Desmond's Journey and Faction HQ Missions.
Reference & Analysis
These chapters are for dedicated players seeking a perfect playthrough, where one can learn about Systems and Stats about Weapons, Armor, Outfits, Shops, Enemies, Achievements, Missions checklists and more.
Multiplayer
The Multiplayer chapters begin with the basic principles of the game, and is useful to those just starting out in multiplayer. It explains the different game modes featured in multiplayer, along with some helpful notes and strategies. To help get the players a feel of the multiplayer personas, the guide introduces all the multiplayer characters with their real name and availability. Score and progression follows, providing information on the ranks of the game by specifying the scores given to kill, approach, action, session bonuses and the XP required for leveling up. The next chapter of the multiplayer guide presents statistics on abilities, and streaks and accolades achieved throughout the game. The last few chapters explains the challenges and titles unlocked in the game, along with some advanced tips for veterans. It finishes then with map analysis by providing bird's eye view over the multiplayer maps and giving tips for each map to help enhance the map's gameplay for all Templar agents.
Extras
The Extra chapters contain bonus material, which is filled with spoilers, so it's best to leave until after the game's main story has been finished. It also contained the story recap and glossary, where it explained key events of the Assassin's Creed Revelations storyline. In the glossary it contains detailed information on the two opposing factions in the game: the Templars, with Abstergo Industries, and the Assassins. Additionally, the book provided character profiles on all the main characters in Assassin's Creed Revelations: Lucy Stillman, Shaun Hastings, Rebecca Crane, William Miles, Clay Kaczmarek, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Suleiman I, Sofia Sartor, Yusuf Tazim, Prince Ahmet, Tarik Barleti, Manuel Palaiologos and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.
Continuing on, the guide then explained the key factors of the game including the Animus, the Bleeding Effect, Eagle Vision, Pieces of Eden, the Masyaf keys (Memory Seals) and the Codex. It explained the role of the prophets Altaïr and Ezio, and the prophecy assigned to them by the First Civilization. Expanding on from the First Civilization, it outlined the aspects that related to them, which included the First Civilization vaults and temples and on the Glyphs and The Truth from Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
Lastly, the story recap gave information on Adam and Eve, the First Civilization, the Capitoline Triad, the Toba catastrophe and the symbols seen throughout the games.
After this, in the last section of the guide, it provided insight into untold events from Altaïr's life. These events were:
Ahmad Sofian's suicide after the death of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad, Altaïr's reveal to Abbas Sofian, Abbas' attack on Altaïr, and Altaïr's training to became a Master Assassin. These all took place before the first Assassin's Creed. The other events were scattered throughout his life. They were:
Altaïr in Constantinople, Altaïr, Maria Thorpe and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad leave for Mongolia, Altaïr discovers the secret of the Apple of Eden, Altaïr's finding of the Memory Seals and the construction of his library.
The guide finishes with a bird's eye view of the fortress of Masyaf.