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Assassins Creed Games Review

Reporter Leighann Harper

Ubisoft has been making Assassins creed Games for over a decade, and while some of the games were duds, they were all unbelievable in their own way. While all of the games are set in a time period centuries before modern time, each game explores a different time period and has different sets of skills based on weapons and people of the century.

Assassins Creed examines the centuries-old struggle between the Assassins who fight for peace, and the Templars, who would rather kill and control for their version of peace. The series’ stories are told through historical fiction, science fiction, and characters, with real-world historical events and figures. For the majority of time,players play as an Assassin in the past history, while they also play as Desmond Miles or an Assassin Initiate in the present day, who hunt down their Templar targets.

The first Assassin's Creed game, released in 2007 is a general introduction to the life of an assassin, and is portrayed through Initiates who use technology to eliminate Templars and other enemies of the past.

The second game takes place in the Renaissance era in Italy, where you play as an Assassin named Ezio who uses modernized weapons made my Leonardo Da Vinci.

My personal favorite, Assassin’s Creed III, is more complex, where you get to play as more than one person. The game takes place during the Revolutionary War. You play as a man who is submitted to being a soldier in order to assassinate well-known Templars and enemies throughout the revolution. Not only do you get the privilege of of experiencing an assassin as a soldier, but you get to watch as a story unfolds. The man (soldier) meets a native american woman and suddenly, you’re playing as a native american child, a boy. You must follow the story closely in order to completely understand what exactly is going on between your first character, the soldier, and your second character, the native american boy. The game is also more advanced in detail and graphics, and while the previous two games are open world, in III, you are able to unlock new regions and expand your map. As the soldier, you can roam freely among the streets and rooftops of the american colonies, and as a native american boy, you can roam freely where you please, more interestingly climbing trees and roaming through the woods.

The next game, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, released in 2013, takes place in the Caribbean, where you play as a pirate who pretends to be a higher ranking sailor, and finds his way in a situation where he is expected to follow the path of an assassin.

Then comes Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, where you play as a pair of sibling assassins, Jacob and Evie, who explore London and take down Templars and gang Strongholds. After getting through most of the main story, you are then introduced to Jacob’s future granddaughter, Lydia, who is an assassin during WWI.

Assassin’s Creed Origins, one of the newer versions, takes place all throughout ancient Egypt and follows the story of a Medjay (protector) named Bayek. Bakyek has a mission to take down multiple strong heads who have wronged Egypt and its people in the most unforgivable ways. An assassin initiate is on the other end of the enhanced technology, picking through the memories of Bayek and his wife, Aya.

Then, the most recent Assassin’s Creed game, Odyssey, takes place in 431 BC during the time of the Peloponnesian War. While this game is newer and more improved with the choice of your own character, I still feel that the third game released was the best.

If you enjoy an action filled experience, open land maps, taking down Templars and stone cold gore, you should play the Assassin’s Creed games.