For questions about "Assassin's Creed" the video game franchise focused on an inter-generational conflict between the titular Assassin Order and their enemies, the Knights Templar. Games in the series typically feature two intersecting plots: one featuring a historical Assassin, and one featuring that Assassin's contemporary descendant.
A popular video game franchise focused on an inter-generational conflict between the titular Assassin Order and their enemies, the Knights Templar. Games in the series typically feature two intersecting plots: one featuring a historical Assassin, and one featuring that Assassin's contemporary descendant.
The central device of the franchise is a machine that allows users to relive the lives of their ancestors. The contemporary versions of the Assassin and Templar Orders use this device to trace the locations of "Pieces of Eden", pieces of advanced technology left behind by a long-extinct precursor race.
There are currently eight games in the main series, with a ninth scheduled for release in late 2015. The series also has a number of shorter, interstitial games.
