Five Things To Know About ‘Assassin’s Creed’

Since its debut in 2007, “Assassin’s Creed” has grown to become a video game juggernaut with more than 230 million players worldwide and a star-studded spin-off film and Grammy Award to its name.

As “Assassin’s Creed Shadows”‘ most recent edition is scheduled for release on Thursday, AFP examines the game’s unique journey.

Violence history

The “Assassin’s Creed” series offers a wild ride through time and space from the Crusades’ bazaars to the icy Nordic coasts of the Viking era.

The first game, set during the Crusades, was based on the 1938 book “Alamut” by Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol.

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The 14th instalment of the most recent edition from publisher Ubisoft makes a long-awaited trip to 16th-century feudal Japan.

Players are encouraged to scurry their way through densely guarded strongholds with weapons like grappling hooks, smoke bombs, and wrist-mounted daggers to defeat well-known foes from the shadows as always in the series.

With weapons, bows, martial arts moves, and weapons on offer, open conflict may also be a viable option.

The possibilities for mayhem range over the centuries because a frame story that is common to each game places the player in the shoes of a near-future character that uses a powerful machine to unlock the DNA-encoded memories of their ancestors.

Instant jackpot

The first game of the series sold more than eight million copies worldwide between the debut of the second episode in 2009, making it a hit right away.

And the more well-known it has become the longer it has been around.

In a first for the publisher, France-based Ubisoft reported that the series’ 2020 release “Valhalla” generated more than one billion euros in revenue (currently $1.1 billion).

Additionally, “Valhalla” established new ground.

The first Grammy award in the video game industry was presented to the series’ composer Stephanie Economou for “Dawn of Ragnarok,” an extension of “Valhalla.”

quick and loose?

Rarely have fans of the video games’ occasionally rambunctious interpretations of history been applauded.

Yasuke, a burly black samurai serving the warlord Oda Nobunaga, is the playable character in “Shadows,” which has sparked controversy.

Although a real black man by the name of that time lived in Japan during that time, his samurai status is frowned upon, including on social media.

The creators of the video game have defended the character’s “creative freedom.”

In the episode set during the French Revolution, leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon accused the creators of “propaganda against the people” in 2014, according to French leftist activist Jean-Luc Melenchon.

To maintain its historical accuracy, Ubisoft claims to employ “differenzed of historians, sociologists, and other social science researchers.”

Starry cast, rave reviews

With the release of a movie with the same name, “Assassin’s Creed” saga made its way back to the well-known path of successful video games in 2016 and followed that path.

Although the cast was excellent, with Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender serving as the stars, the reviews were subpar, and rumors of a big-screen sequel have remained untrue.

However, Ubisoft was unafraid and signed a deal with Netflix in 2021 to produce a number of series based on the franchise.

Additionally, there are podcasts and spin-off comics in the saga.

Every year, Ubisoft promised new content for the “Assassin’s Creed” universe, but it didn’t say whether it would be games or other forms.

spotlight on the Olympics

A common thread connecting the vignettes from the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony in summer 2024 was a masked hero figure scurrying across the rooftops of the French capital while emblazoning the Olympic torch.

Thomas Jolly, the ceremonies’ artistic director, claimed this month that “Unity” served as the character’s direct inspiration.

He remarked in a podcast he made at Ubisoft’s headquarters, “I love video games and I love Assassin’s Creed.”

Jolly said Arno, the protagonist of “Unity,” could compete with contemporary French pop stars like “gentleman thief” Arsene Lupin.

Following the devastating 2019 fire at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, Ubisoft made “Unity” free for a week on PC to let players explore the game’s incredibly detailed recreation of the structure.

Several million people accepted the offer.

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