History of the Assassin’s Creed series. Part I

Series Assassins Creed for more than ten years. I decided to recall how it all began, how the series lived its successful and not very days, as it changed from part to part.
In the framework of this story, I will analyze all 9 main games of the series, all spin-offs, books, films and comics. So sit down comfortably, the story will turn out to be very thorough.

Part I. Assassin’s Creed
Part II. Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles and Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines
Part III. Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery
Part IV. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhouse
Part V. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Part VI. Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation
Part VII. Assassin’s Creed IV
Part VIII. Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Part IX. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and Assassin’s Creed: Chronicles Trilogy
Part X. Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
Part XI. Assassin’s Creed: Origins
Part XII. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Part XIII. Assassin’s Creed film;as well as books and comics in the universe

The story of a series of games about murderers originated back in 1989, when the first part of the game Prince Persia released by Brèderbund Software was released. In the game, the evil vizier Jaffar captivates the princess, and we, as the prince, must save her in 60 minutes of real time. This is complicated by the fact that we are in a dungeon, which, moreover, is replete with traps and secret moves. In order to pass the game, I had to get out of this dungeon. In the end we defeat the villain and save the beloved. The game is a nonlinear platformer where we ourselves choose where to go to the prince. The game can offer the acrobatic tricks that the prince owns, and rather simple puzzles.

The game was loved by many, including critics, which caused the development of the sequel, published in 1994. The sequel received the subtitle “The Shadow and the Flame” (Shadow and Flame) and repeated the concept of the previous part, as well as the majority of the sequels of those years, that is, everything was done as before, but several times more. The plot has become more worked out, like locations. If in the first game the location was only a dull prison, then in the second part there is a cave, a temple and Persia itself. In the end, such locations began to appear in the game that the gamers were breathtaking – a giant chess field, a room with a huge spider and many others! It is not surprising that the second part of the prince seemed to many even better than the original!

In 1995, as a result of the “price war”, Brèderbund Software bought The Learning Company. In 1999, she released the tricel of the Prince of Persia, in which the usual 2D format of the platformer was replaced by 3D, and the game began to very much resemble the fashionable Tomb Raider at that time, with which everyone made comparisons. Unfortunately, the TLC product faded compared to Lara Croft, which is why they met the game cold.

After the failure of the 3-day adventures of the Prince of Persia, the series began to be transferred from hand to hand. At first, in 1998, TLC was bought by Mattel Interactive, then in 2000 Gores Technology was resold, later – Houthon Mifflin Harcourt, well, and some of the acquired units were sold to the French company Ubisoft, including the series Prince of Persia.

Well, Ubisoft had the task of reviving the once popular project and at the same time not to fall face into the mud, as previous developers did. To do this, they invited the creator of the very first part of Prince Persia – Jordan Mekner. He wrote a script for a new game and was its designer. Headed the project by Patrice Dezile. At first he did not want to make the main character the prince at all. According to him, the prince is the one who is waiting for the king. But still he agreed to leave the prince the main character.

The release of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time took place in 2003, and the game immediately became cult, received a bunch of awards and was recognized as one of the greatest games in the world. Therefore, there was no doubt in the creation of the sequel. Simultaneously with the work on the continuation of Ubisoft, they began to develop a spin-off under the code name Prince of Persia: Assassins.

Responsible for the development of the game was already familiar to us Patrice Dezile. He came up with a new protagonist – Assassin, who was supposed to save the prince from all hardships. However, during the development of a game, which was planned to include a cooperative and multiplayer for scale, the prince lost the status of the protagonist, whose place was taken by the Order of Assassinov. When Ubisoft realized that the project would be successful with this concept, I decided to make a separate series of games from the spin-off, called Assassins Creed.

But before we start talking about the first game of the series, I would like to tell the history of the actually existing assassins.
Hassan ibn Sabbach, founder of the Order of the Assassins, nicknamed the “Elder of the Mountain” was born in a family of moderate Shiites, but after studying in Cairo he moved to a more radical teachings of the nizarites. It is significant that he was a classmate of many influential and even great people of that time-among them the poet Omar Hayyam and the vizier of the Empire of the Seljuki al-Mulke. It was with the murder of Nizam al-Mulka that the history of the Assassins as the organization of killers began. The fact is that former school comrades became political rivals. Hassan ibn Sabbach decided to eliminate him-a killer, dressed as a wanderer, was sent to him, and the vizier was killed right in the middle of his luxurious palace surrounded by a guard and many witnesses.

Hassan Ibn Sabbach needed his own empire, the base for which could become the Alamut fortress near the Caspian Sea. The fortress attracted him with its inaccessibility for the troops. To master it, he had to prepare the ground for the coming empire. Having impersoned the teacher-teacher, he began to train local residents, making ardent followers from them and turning the Assassin nizarites into the faith. At some point, the commandant of the fortress discovered that not a single person would obey his orders. As a result, he had to escape, throwing his patrimony. So the Assassins declared their independence. They built even more than a hundred fortresses, and the territories occupied by them were considered individual states.

The central idea of ​​the Nizarites was the existence of a certain “hidden” imam, a descendant of Muhammad, who allegedly escaped from enemies and will appear as a messiah. Sabbach managed to convince his Nizari warriors, as if personally released this “hidden imam” from captivity even in infancy and even brought up a divine child, settling in the secret chambers of the fortress. After that, everyone believed that Sabbach is the Prophet and the Messenger of Allah himself.
I must say that the Assassins were not the Order of Secret killers, as was presented in games. According to their modern ideas, they can rather be called terrorists, since they preferred not secretive operations, but loud and bloody political murders that were committed with a large accumulation of the people. The elimination of an important figure was not so much an end in itself as the method of political terror. Moreover, many of the killers did not run away from the scene, but remained and violently shouted political and religious appeals to the people until they were captured or killed by security. It is noteworthy that their main enemies of the Assassins proclaimed the entire class of officials and bureaucrats.
The highest power of the Turks-Seljukov and Arabs was so frightened by the terror of the Assassins that even in peacetime she almost bore chain mail. The only more or less serious way to protect yourself was to secretly bribe Sabbach. In fact, a system similar to a racketeering was developed – the nobles should have paid a lot of money to the nizarites so that they would not attack them. This regime lasted a long time until the Mongols attacked the fortress.
A significant part of the Assassins continued to resist the Mongol invasion even after the order of their leader to surrender to the invaders. This resistance turned into a long war. For example, the siege of the GIRDMCHUK fortress lasted 20 years. Despite the fierce resistance of the Mongols nevertheless prevailed over the assassins, what the incredible act of Rukn ad-Din Khurshah helped them. This Rud-Din Khurshah, wanting to become the leader of the assassins, kills his father to take his place, after which he gives the Mongols and Alamut, and most of the other fortresses. And he himself relies on the mercy of the winners, who subsequently still kill him, introducing the murder by an accident.

Now that you have met the assassins, you can start The story of the first game of the series.
After the E3 2006 exhibition, at which Assassins Creed presented, the game became very expected. Eyeering players noticed interference resembling computer failures. It was then that the theories began that the plot of the new game from Ubisoft will proceed not only in the past, but also in the present, or even in the future. And the guesses of the players were true. On November 13, 2007, the game reached the shelves of stores and plunged players not only to the medieval Jerusalem kingdom, but also in the near future, in which the main plot Games.

Abstergo Corporation created a mechanism that reproduces any temporary segments and life situations from the memory of the ancestors. The creator of this mechanism is the scientist Warren Vidik, who called his brainchild animus. Owners of the corporation need to learn something from the life of Assassin Altair ibn-la-Ahhad. To this end, they find his descendant – Desmond Miles, an ordinary bartender, abduct him and immerse him in animus. From this moment the game begins.

With the help of animus, Miles is placed in the body of Altair, but this attempt is unsuccessful: the animus constantly makes fails, which is why it is not possible to establish neither the location of Altair, nor the people who surround him. Thus, the necessary memories could not be reproduced, and therefore Warren Vidik and his assistant Lucy Stillman decide to start with an earlier memory block.

A new attempt allows us to establish the past of Altair, when in 1191 he, together with the Assassins Malik and Kadar, arrives at the Solomon temple in Jerusalem to prevent the Templars from taking possession of the artifact – apple of Eden. During a fight with Templar Robert de Sable, Assassin suffers defeat and loses his partners. Altair is forced to return to Masiaf, where the Assassin fortress is located. After some time, Malik, who not only escaped himself, but also managed to recapture the artifact from the clutches. As it turned out, the Templar army tracked down Malik and, having come to the village of Assassins, arranged a battle. The enemies demanded to return the apple, but the head of the Assassins al-Myalim refuses them. Having undertaken military tricks, Altair still manages to defeat the Templars, but despite this, he could not avoid reckoning for unauthorized actions, as a result of which the fortress was attacked. Al-Mualim anitir angrily reports in front of his subjects, blaming him that he violated the three basic rules of the assassins, which are an immutable law. Piercing the dagger into the abdomen of Altair, the mentor straightens with him.

After this event, Miles is pulled out of animus. Lucy claims that you cannot be in the mechanism for a long time. Dzmond is given a rest until the next morning, after which he again goes to the animus. In order not to tighten the story too much, I will not describe every sortie of desmond from the mechanism and will dwell only on the plot of important points. Okay, back to Masiaf ..
So, Assassin does not die, al-Mualim only created the illusion of execution. But, having preserved life to the hero, they lower it with a rank, deprived of personal weapons and many military abilities. After that, al-Mualim instructs him to find a traitor who let the enemies into Masiaf.

Altair successfully performs this task. Part of the weapons is returned to him and instructed to find and kill 9 people from the al-Mualim list. The first victim of Assassin is Tamir, a weapon of weapons from Damascus. Altair arrives in the city and meets with a person named Rafik, who headed the Assassin Bureau to get permission to eliminate Tamir. Altair finds a merchant in the market at a time when he brutally dealt with the head of the local workshop for failure to fulfill the order for weapons. Altair, who is watching this scene, kills Tamir. The defeated Tamir manages to say that he and his brothers have the highest goal and that each of them performs his part.

Returning to Masiaf, Altair receives the names of two new victims from al-Mualim. One of them is in Acre, the other in Jerusalem.
In Acre, the goal of Altair is Master Garnier de Napluz, who is a local doctor. Here are just a frenzy not good aibolit – he conducts cruel experiments on his patients. When Altair finds a tormentor, he is just busy with the punishment of one of the experimental. After the crime, the outbuilding of the assassin blade overtakes. Dying, Napluz says that he was convinced that he did not conduct experiments on people, but thus saved them from madness.

The next goal of Altair is the slave trader Talal from Jerusalem. The head of the local bureau is Malik known to us, he lost his hand due to a severe wound. Our old acquaintance is not happy to see a former comrade and is with indignation about him.
Talal guesses that he was hunting, and adjusts the assassin a trap. Altair comes into it and is locked in a warehouse. Here the guards of Talala attack him. Talal himself at this time gives a dera. Of course, he did not run far and soon fell into the hands of Altair. Being at death, the slave trader admitted that he abducted only people forgotten by God – drug addicts, poor, leaked – and supplied them for some brotherhood.

After returning to Masiaf, Altair learns from Al-Mualim that his victims were in the Horman School of Templars and obeyed Robert de Sable, that the Templars wanted to end the war between the crusaders and the Saracens and create a new state on the Holy Land. The head of Assassinov again gives Altair the goals, this time as many as three – in three different cities.
In Damascus, his goal is the rich merchant Abu al-Nukvod. The merchant arranges a feast in his palace, which collects the whole city nobility. Having poured poison into wine, he easily kills all his guests. Altair is among the guests, but reveals the merchant’s conspiracy and brings him a mortal blow. Before his death, the merchant admits that he wanted to convey Damascus to the Templar.

The next goal of Altair is in acre. This is Abukingcasino.co.uk William Montferrat, commander of the army of King Richard Lion Heart. He does not get along with the king and wants to raise a rebellion in order to put his son on the throne. After meeting with the king, William goes to his fortress. There Altair kills him.

The last of the three targets is in Jerusalem. This is Mazh-Addin, he rules the city in the absence of the main ruler-Sallah Addin. Mazh-Addin is stiff: arranges demonstrative executions, kills everyone who he did not like. During one of these executions, the blade overtakes it.

On one of the sorties into the real world, Desmond notes that the vidic is very angry with something. From Lucy, he learns that the Abstergo Corporation belongs to the Templars, and the anger of Warren Vidik, who is also the Templar, is caused by the fact that he will learn about the assassins trying to rescue Miles from captivity.
The next day, Desmond again falls into animus, and memory returns it to Masiaf. Al-Mualim shows Altair the apple of Eden-an artifact mined by Malik. Altair believes that this is just a “piece of silver”, while his chapter claims that the apple has a supernatural force. After which the head gives the assassin two new tasks, and Altair begins to implement them.
The first goal of the assassin is in Damascus. This is Jubaire, the court scientist of the Egyptian Sultan. The scientist was distraught and decided to burn all the books in the city, considering them the cause of all the troubles in the world. Not only books were subjected to burning, but all those who were not agreeing with Jubair. Altair kills him.

The second goal is Sibrand, Master of the Teutonic Order in Acre. He knows that he was sent a killer and suspects absolutely everyone. He himself occupied the docks and always sits on his ship. But fearless assassin overtakes him. Before his death, Sibrand says that he was preparing a fleet for the blockade of the Acra port to help the Templars defeat the king.

After that, Desmonda is again taken out of animus. When the Vidik goes somewhere, Lucy tells him the true goal of the Templars, that in fact, they are not enough Edem’s apple, which Altair saw, they are trying to understand where all the other particles of Eden are located, which, it turns out, is a lot.
In Animus, Altair arrives in Masiaf again. There, al-Mualim gives him the last task-to kill Robert de Sable, who is in Jerusalem. Altair arrives in the city and finds out that Robert will be attended by Mazh-Addin’s funeral. But the funeral is a trap for the assassin, it is surrounded by the guard. Altair straightens out with warriors and grabs Robert. Before killing him, Altair removes his helmet from him … and sees that a girl named Maria Torpe was hiding under him. She says that Robert went to Arsuf to conclude an alliance between the Saracens and the Crusaders against the Assassins. Altair immediately goes to where he finds Robert and King Richard. He tries to reason the king, proving that Robert is a traitor. Then the king invites them to fight among themselves. Assassin defeats, and Robert before his death reveals the secret of al-Mualim: it turns out that al-Maalim was among the Templars, with whom he found the artifact of the apple of Eden. However, later he wanted to single -handedly possess this artifact and decided to kill all the accomplices. Altair realized that al-Mualim only used it in order to implement his insidious plan.

Desmonda is being taken out of Animus, and Vidik reports that the Assassins appeared in Abstergo who came to free Miles. However, the Templars managed to fight off them. Vidik leaves, and Desmond covers panic, as he understands that the Assassins were his only hope for salvation. At this moment, Lucy shows a gesture that she is also an assassin, making it clear that it is not all over yet.

When the next morning, Desmond again lays into animus, Altair urgently goes to Masiaf. On the way to the fortress, Assassins attack him, whose mind is confused by the effect of an apple. Altair has to enter into an unequal battle, but Malik with several warriors comes to the rescue. He tells Altair that he learned the secret of al-Mualim. Altair goes to the fortress, where he enters into a fight with al-Mualim. As a result, the spiritual leader is killed, an apple falls out of his hand, from which the hologram of the Earth appears with marked points, where other particles of Eden are supposedly stored.

After that, Desmond leaves the animus. Vidic reports to the leadership of Abstergo that he got the coordinates of Eden particles. The company’s management decides to get rid of Desmond, but Lucy reports that there is a lot of useful information in his memory, so he can still be useful. As a result, Desmond opens the ability that Altair possessed – eagle vision, thanks to which he sees bloody signs on the floor and walls of the laboratory. The game ends on this.

Now that you know the plot of the game, you can go to a more detailed analyzing the main actors.

Desmond Miles

Desmond is the main character of the first and subsequent parts of the series. At the beginning of the game, he becomes a captive of the Abstergo Corporation, which forces him to experience the memory of his ancestor, an assassin. We know nothing about the past Miles. We only know that he worked as a bartender before he was abducted. According to the plot of the game, Miles is forced to agree to help the cloak scientist Warren Vidik, who blackmail him by the fact that if he refuses to cooperate, he will be entered into a state of coma, and in this state all the information necessary for the Templars will be removed, after which they will leave to die. Throughout the game, Desmond is in the body of his ancestor-Altair ibn-la-Ahad. Between research sessions, he remained locked in a room where he could have a rest. One of these breaks, Desmond receives a code with which it can open the door of his room in which it is sharpened, so it has the opportunity to inspect the laboratory in the absence of a visa. He is interested in access to the vidica computer, and for this he has to steal a handle of access.
From the emails in the computers of Animus and Vidik, Desmond learns a lot about Abstergo and, in particular, about the Oblast 16, which was also used before Miles in the experiment. He learns that Object 16 suffered from a long stay in Animus.
Friends of Desmond, Assassins, are repeatedly trying to free him, but all attempts are completed tragically. After the last failure of the Assassins, Lucy assured Desmond that his parents most likely managed to hide and remained alive. During this conversation, Lucy makes it clear that she is also an assassin and subsequently saves his life.

Warren Vidik

Templar who has been working in the Abstergo Corporation since 1980. He is a scientist and creator of the Animus mechanism, thanks to which people can experience the memory of their ancestors. Shortly before the creation of Animus, Warren recruited Lucy Stillman to work in Abstergo. Once he even saved Lucy when he wanted to kill three Abstergo employees. Worked with many objects, the last of which was Desmond Miles.

Lucy Stillman

Assassin. She specifically became an assistant to Warren Vidik to own information about the Abstergo Corporation and transfer it to her friends. From Lucy, Desmond learns about Abstergo’s plans through him to reveal the location of the Eden particles. Between the sessions Lucy tells Desmond about her past that she was also an abstherus captive. She asked Desmond not to judge Dr. Vidik strictly, since he was under high pressure. After some time, Lucy specifically leaves access codes in the wardrobe so that Desmond can freely leave his room. Next time on her table she leaves a pen with which Desmond got access to her computer and could read her e -mail. When the corporation decided that Desmond was no longer needed, Lucy intervened and convinced the owners to leave him alive, since his memory may contain a lot of useful information.

Altair-Ibn-la-Ahhad

Assassin and distant ancestor Desmond Maisla. It is with it that contact is established when immersed in animus.
Being a student of al-Mualim, he serves him and fulfills all his orders. In 1191, he goes to the Temple of Solomon to steal an important artifact – the apple of Edem. During the task, Altair violates the credo of the brotherhood, killing the innocent, which speaks of his wayward nature.
Fulfilling the deadly tasks of al-Mualim, Altair gradually changes his worldview, he begins to sympathize with his victims and not so one-sidedly look at the world. Reflections lead him to the fact that he begins to doubt even for his own purposes and goals of the whole fraternity.
In heavy battle, Altair defeats Al Mualim and first wants to destroy Edem’s apple, but then decides to leave him to himself, hoping to find his application for the benefit of mankind.

All the victims of Altair, like al-Mualim, are real historical personalities. Among them there are great masters: Garnier de Napluz, Robert de Sable and Siberd. The appearance of real characters was a distinctive feature of the series, in the subsequent parts of which other significant people will meet.

Let’s move on to the story of the gameplay. An important role in gameplay Parkur plays. You can climb on any building, tower or wall. Cities architecture in Assassin’s Creed is specially designed so that Altair can climb on any roof. Climbing into the buildings and moving horizontally, the player can easily leave the chase.

In order to eliminate the victim, the hero must collect the necessary information about her. For this, the player must complete a number of secondary tasks, including interrogation, eavesdropping, theft and so on ..

Assassin’s Creed is a “social stealth explosion”, which implies an important role in the crowd in the game. For example, you can get away from the persecution by pretending to be a scientist or crouching on a bench next to the inhabitants. It should be borne in mind that after the player committed the murder, the crowd screams with screams, but if you kill the enemy unnoticed, people, on the contrary, will gather to stroke.

Participating in battles, Altair can take attacks, put a block and counterattack. Assassin uses several types of murder tools:

Hidden blade

He was given when dedicated to assassins. The ritual was somewhat cruel: the assassin was cut off the ring finger of the left hand, and then a light mechanism was attached into the hand, which was activated by the ring fixed on the little finger. Instead of the ring finger, the Assassin activated the mechanism, as a result of which a three -level dagger appeared. The whole process occupied no more than half a second – this allowed to activate the blade during the flight or during the barn.

During the battle, the hero uses sword and short blade.

At large distances, instead of a sword, Altair uses throwing knives, who probably amaze the enemy. However, you cannot choose abandoned knives, so over time they end. New ones can be stolen from bandits in the city or get in Masiafe.

Another weapon is its own Fists Altair. They are needed for fights with bandits, interrogations, or in order to grab the enemy and push away aside.
In addition, in the “Assassin’s Creed” screensaver, Altair can see a small crossbow. But he was excluded from the game, most likely due to the inconsistency of historical parameters.

The sixth feeling helps to recognize the enemy or friend in a person of an enemy or friend. This is the so -called Eagle vision. But in practice, the game does not provide situations in which this gift could be used, because it is clear who is who is who is who is who. At the end of the game, when Desmond had eagle vision, he saw a friend in Lucy, and an enemy in a visionary.

There are also several types in the game additional tasks. One of them is Collection of flags, which are hidden in every city and kingdom. Total flags 420.
Another additional task is destruction 60 Templars, which can be found all over the game world. Templars know Altair in the face, so they will not be afraid to attack the first as soon as they notice a person in a hood.
More useful of additional tasks is the study of all points of view. Typically, they are high towers that are much exceeding the other buildings in height and marked by a special sign on the map. If Altair gets into such a tower, he will be able to open the area of ​​the area and see new details. You can’t open a card in another way, even if you go around every square meter.
The last additional task is Help residents. In any city you can find several citizens who are oppressed by the guard. If you kill these soldiers and talk with a saved man, then several citizens will appear in this place. They will help Altair get away from the persecution, hiding him or detaining the persecuting guards.

It’s time to talk about Game world. When we first immerse ourselves in animus, we find ourselves in Temple of Solomon, known as the first Jerusalem Temple. According to the Bible, the temple was erected during the period of the highest manifestation of the national unity of the Jewish people, during the reign of Solomon. Solomon managed to carry out a plan for building a grandiose temple, to which Jews rushed to worship from all over Israel.

After a failure in the temple, we return to the fortress of the Assassins Masiaf. Masiaf is a real city in Syria;In the Middle Ages, the fortress belonged to the Assassins-Nizarites. In 1260, the fortress was conquered by the Mongols.

Most of the game takes place in the open world. The entire game space is a simplified model of the Holy Land and is divided into 7 main parts. These are three large cities (Damascus, Akra and Jerusalem), Assassinov Castle (Masiaf) and the space between them – Kingdom. The kingdom is quite extensive squares among the mountains with small settlements of local residents and crusader camps. The player is free to move around the kingdom of the kingdom both on foot and on a horse. Almost all the soldiers he meets are enemies of Altair and Brotherhood. If you attract attention, they can find out the assassin and try to kill him.

The first city on the path of Altair – Damascus. Currently Damascus is the capital of Syria. Damascus is the oldest of the modern capitals and one of the oldest cities in the world;The first mention of it dates back to 2500 BC. The game takes place during the period when Damascus was captured by the troops of Salah-ad-Din. Like all other cities, Damascus is divided into three districts – poor, ordinary and rich.
In the Bednyatsky district there is the al -lai market, one of the largest retail points of the city. The market belonged to Tamir, the first victim of Altair.
In a regular area, the attraction is the al-Kallasah madrasah, where Jubaire, one of Altair’s later victims, burned books and scrolls with his people.
The rich area is the largest district in the city and has many attractions that attract people to the city. Among them, the Saruja market, the largest in the entire Holy Land, the palace of the King-King King, in which Abu-al-Nukvod arranged a deadly feast, as well as the Mosque of the Umayyadov-one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world.

The next city – Akra. Currently called Akco and is in Israel. In 1187, Saladin took the city almost without a fight, but already in 1191 during the 3rd Crusade after the two-year siege of Akko was conquered by the troops of the crusaders under the command of the French king Philip Augustus and the English king Richard Lion’s heart. Also has three social areas.
From the attractions, one can note the hospital of the Order of the Hospitallers in the Bednyatsky District, where Altair kills Garnier de Naplus, the Crusader’s citadel is the highest overview point in the whole game, and the Acra port, which hid Sibrand.

Well, the last big city in the game is Jerusalem. Currently, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. During the game, the city is captured by Salah-ad-din. Like previous cities, has 3 districts.
The most significant and beautiful construction of Jerusalem is the mosque of the cliff dome located in the rich area of ​​the city. The temple was erected in 687-691. A few decades after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. It is considered one of the first monuments of Islamic architecture. In those days, the concept of “mosque” did not exist, the building was built as a house for pilgrims.
In a simple area is the temple of the Holy Sepulcher. According to the texts of the Holy Scriptures, the temple complex stands on the very place where he took martyrdom, Jesus was buried and resurrected and resurrected. The first basilica appeared here in the III-IV centuries. The magnificent building in the Romanesque style was erected by Europeans in the middle of the XII century, after the successes of the first crusades. Today, the temple of the Holy Sepulcher is an architectural complex, including Calvary, several cathedrals, churches, monasteries, underground cathedrals and chapels belonging to various branches of the Christian Church.

After an unsuccessful attempt to destroy Robert, Altair goes to Arsuf, To prevent a conspiracy against the Assassins with the participation of Salah Ad-Din and Richard Lion’s Heart. The location itself is a corridor in which we can only move forward. It is noteworthy that the so -called “battle of Arsuf” occurred here, between Richard and Saladin, the entrance of which the latter lost.

Assassin’s Creed plays a large role in the atmosphere and mood of Assassin’s Creed Soundtrack, created by Jesper Kid. His soundtracks can be familiar to you from such games as Hitman and Borderlands. In the soundtrack, he used choral singing and the grandiose sound of a symphony orchestra, where copper and shock groups of tools prevail. In general, the musical background transfers increasing stress, which does not allow the player to relax during the battles. Separate episodes, for example, when the player is in Masiafe, are accompanied by more serene music.

It should also be mentioned that in Assassin’s Creed good quality Dubbing. For this it is worth saying thanks to the company 1C. Altair speaks the voice of Geralt from Rivia, and this voice behind the scenes belongs to Vsevolod Kuznetsov, one of the most popular actors of Russian dubbing. He voiced such characters as: Voldemort, Dante from Devil May Cry, Joel from The Last of US and others. Other actors also voiced their roles well, for example, Alexander Gavrilin – Desmond Miles, Elena Chebaturkin – Lucy Stillman.

The spectacular presentation of the game, which included trailers and fragments of gameplay, brought Assassin’s Creed to E3 2006 a large number of awards. The game was recognized as the best game of the exhibition by many leading gaming resources. However, after the release of the game, claims appeared, due to which the assessment of the game hesitated at 8 out of 10. In particular, the uniformity of the gameplay was recorded in the shortcomings of the game: each of the nine murders occurs according to a single scheme, only locations and plot scenes differ. In addition, the owners of the PS3 versions complained about departures and bugs. Currently on methasritic, it has 80 points out of 100.

Game I went out November 13, 2007 on PlayStation 3 And Xbox 360. Soon a version appeared for computer, Namely, April 8, 2008. However, already in March 2008, anyone could download the full pirate version of the game. Moreover, both the English version and Russian went to the network. I must say that the English version was a raw, urgent beta, containing many mistakes, as a result of which this greatly hit the sales in the West, which caused Ubisoft discontent. Pirate copies dispersed with a number of 700 thousand copies, only 40 thousand were sold legal.

Ubisoft also took care of mobile versions of the game that came out simultaneously with the main version. The mobile version repeated the plot of the original and was a 2D platformer.

But back to the game itself. In a later version that wears the subtitle Director’s Cut, Altair can use the help of informants. First you come to them, after which they give you a task. Tasks can be different: for example, a secretive murder of archers or collecting flags for a while. After you complete the task, the informant will tell about your victim.

On this my story about the first game of the series came to an end, I hope that he interested you. My next story will be devoted to two games at once: AC: Altair’s Chronicles and AC Bloodlines. Until new meetings!

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