15 years of Assassin’s Creed: Why there’s never been a better time to replay the first game

^Stay tuned for announcements from our retrospective on the Assassin’s Creed phenomenon and how it changed the entire gaming landscape.

assassin’s Creed He turns 15 this week. I can hardly believe it. I could swear on a bunch of bibles that it’s a “new” series, in the same way that my children will always be “little”, or that The Rock will always be “from wrestling”.

And what a 15 years that’s been – in that time, gaming has completely exploded, going from some kind of silly pastime for weans and saddos to a widespread phenomenon that (yeah, okay, sorry, I’m going to say the thing) it makes way more money (ugh, let’s get this over with) than any other form of entertainment (sigh, sorry).

With Valhalla set a few hundred years before the original game in the timeline, and next year’s Mirage spin-off styled as some sort of tribute to Altair’s groundbreaking adventure, it seems like the perfect time to revisit the old days. crossed as a reminder. how fully formed the series was when it arrived – it’s often said that the series didn’t get off the ground properly until Ezio showed up in the sequel two years later – but as I’ve argued in the video above, AC2 successfully built itself foundations that were established by the incredible creativity of the first game.

If you’re lucky enough to have an Xbox Series X, you can enjoy the original 360 version running in glorious 4K at 60fps (a bit choppy), as you were one of the privileged few to enjoy a double whammy of benefits. from the Xbox Backward Compatibility Program. If you have a PC, you can of course get the Director’s Cut on Steam and run it in whatever resolution you like. Probably. I don’t know. It depends. PCs are complicated. Stop reading this, just watch the video, I spent a week on it.