Written by Anthony Del Col | Art by Pj Kaiowa | Published by Titan Comics
Seems an age since I reviewed an Assassin’s Creed title, which is a shame as I really enjoy the Assassins Creed universe. Love the games, the novelisations, most of the comics and didn’t hate the movie, though many seemed too. Assassin’s Creed strength has always been twofold. Firstly, the ability to mine any era of history and fit the Assassins/Templar/Precursor narrative into it, using a mixture of fiction and fact. The interweaving of real historical people into the stories is also genius, though their Templar or Assassin affiliation is of course fictional….we think. Secondly, there is the modern aspect. The game within a game as it were, as we also deal with storylines in the ‘real’ world, the modern day, as the historical adventure is used as the backdrop to modern...
Seems an age since I reviewed an Assassin’s Creed title, which is a shame as I really enjoy the Assassins Creed universe. Love the games, the novelisations, most of the comics and didn’t hate the movie, though many seemed too. Assassin’s Creed strength has always been twofold. Firstly, the ability to mine any era of history and fit the Assassins/Templar/Precursor narrative into it, using a mixture of fiction and fact. The interweaving of real historical people into the stories is also genius, though their Templar or Assassin affiliation is of course fictional….we think. Secondly, there is the modern aspect. The game within a game as it were, as we also deal with storylines in the ‘real’ world, the modern day, as the historical adventure is used as the backdrop to modern...
- 3/15/2018
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
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