Assassin’s Creed 1 was the videogaming story of Altair, a member of a guild of honourable contracted killers who operated throughout history and were the thorns in the sides of their enemies the Knights Templar, who if you are familiar with your medieval history… or Dan Brown novels and conspiracy theory… currently have a shady hand in everything from corporations, global finance and governments, somewhat like the Masons or other shady brotherhood style cult.
The story starts at the time of the First Crusade (or Second or Third I cant remember) with Altair given missions to assassinate members of both sides – the European and the Muslim armies to restore balance to the force (I am mixing sci-fi metaphors but you get what I’m trying to say, without doing my research properly).
What I LOVE about richly detailed video games such as this is the depth to which they incorporate history… it is reminiscent of Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings and it’s depiction of the rise of empires throughout history, and the speed of Aztec falcon warriors who could run as fast as horses… these awesome video games SURE AS HELL beat sitting in history classes in high school sleeping with my head on the table leaving a pool of drool from my open mouth.
Anyways the much anticipated sequel, Assassin’s Creed 2, set in Venice (La Serenissima) Italy during the time of The Renaissance is available for pre-order and is within my video-gaming ass’s reach and I cannot wait to continue the story of the Assassin’s Guild and The Shady Templars! I think you can visit your local boutique video gaming boutique store (probably EB) to preorder a pretty awesome looking pack that includes toys and metal cases and an illustrated book and other shit. But I probably wont because it’s pretty expensive.
Check out the graphically mind boggling movie style trailer… are they actors in costume, completely CGI or some combination of the two?? Also the protagonist assassin now has gunpowder powered weapons!
Also check out my other mate’s blogs
Ash: http://www.pixelrobot.com/blog
Carey: http://www.brokenlense.com/
Rollerboy: http://www.rollerboypodcast.com/
