Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
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| Developer(s) | Gameloft |
| Publisher(s) | Ubisoft |
| Designer(s) | Bogdan Lucaci Cristian Soare |
| Series | Assassin's Creed |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS Android iOS webOS Symbian Java ME Windows Phone |
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Nintendo DS:
April 23, 2009 Palm WebOS: January 25, 2010 Windows Phone 7: November 11, 2010 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, stealth |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles is a video game released for the Nintendo DS, Android, iOS, webOS, Symbian, Java ME and Windows Phone. It is a prequel to the 2007 video game Assassin's Creed, developed by Gameloft and published by Ubisoft. It was released in the United States on February 5, 2008. It features two new cities, Tyre and Aleppo; and the three original cities, Jerusalem, Acre, and Damascus; but does not include Masyaf. Unlike the original Assassin's Creed, the game is not told through the perspective of Desmond Miles, but rather the perspective of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, although the menu screens do take place in the Animus.
1190 AD during the Third Crusade, Crusaders clash with Saracens for control of the Holy City, Jerusalem.
Altaïr is tasked by Al-Mualim to retrieve the Chalice. It is said to have the power to unite all factions and end the Third Crusade in victory for the side that possess's it. However, the Chalice is too powerful and must be found and destroyed.
The assassin, Altaïr, begins his journey at Damascus, where he learns that the Chalice is kept in the Temple of the Sand and that Altaïr needs three keys to enter it. Altaïr obtains the first of three keys in Damascus, then heads to Tyre for more keys.
Arriving in Tyre, he learns that Roland Napule, head of the hospital. Altair infiltrates the hospital and gets the second key from a prisoner of Roland, an old man who has been to the mysterious temple of the Chalice.
Altaïr then travels to Jerusalem, learning that the Templar leader, Basilisk, has the third key. The king is going to have a party somewhere soon. He finds out the location of Villa where the party is about to begin, infiltrates it and encounters Lord Basilisk for the first time. After a battle with him Altair gets the key, but has no time to kill him.
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