Assassin's Creed | |
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Publishers | Ubisoft |
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First release |
Assassin's Creed November 13, 2007 |
Latest release |
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia February 9, 2016 |
Assassin's Creed is a franchise centered on an action-adventure video-game series developed by Ubisoft. It depicts in the centuries-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight for peace with free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. Featuring historical fiction and characters, mixed with real-world historical events, and figures. The series took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, while building upon concepts from the Prince of Persia series.
The franchise began in 2007 with the release of Assassin's Creed. The main videogame series consists of nine games, developed by Ubisoft Montreal (single player) and Ubisoft Annecy (multiplayer), released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Microsoft Windows, and OS X platforms. Many spin-off games have been made for Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, iOS, HP webOS,Android, Nokia Symbian Windows Phone platforms, the handheld games are developed by Gameloft and Gryptonite Studios, with additional development by Ubisoft Montreal. The series has been well received by the public and critics, and has sold over 100 million copies as of September 2016[update], becoming Ubisoft's best selling franchise and one of the highest selling video game franchises of all time.