As a teenager, I fell I love with the novels of Tim Powers, each detailing supernatural secret histories set in the age of pirates and Romantic poets. I went to university for Fine Art Studio, and filled my first couple of years with courses about Renaissance Europe. Perhaps I myself was primed to love these games. This game takes place in Victorian England. The title screen in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, the 9th console release (sorta) in the series. Gameplay usually involves a lot of parkour through exquisitely recreated historical locations.
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#Where does assassins creed 1 take place movie#
In the modern day, the Templars own technology that can help a person relive genetic memories of their ancestors, and they use this technology to try and discover where the assassins of the past have hidden the Pieces of Eden.Įffectively, in the modern day you play a character reliving memories of an ancestor in the past: during the Crusades, the Italian Renaissance, the age of pirates, the American and French Revolutions, and more. The basic premise can be applied to many instances throughout history, and so novels, comics, and a (hopefully groundbreaking) movie have all been steadily expanding the universe outside of the games. Artifacts, (called Pieces of Eden) from an advanced civilization lost before recorded history have occasionally cropped up, and members of the Assassin order have hidden them from the Templars. Their enemies are the Templars, who hope for peace and order through control. The Assassin's Creed video game series by Ubisoft takes place In our world, and details events in a secret history, where the centuries-old order of assassins fights to preserve free will in humankind. Quick overview in case you're not familiar with the game:
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I suppose in some ways, writing about Assassin's Creed here on Symbiartic was inevitable.