Assassin's Creed has grown into a massive franchise since its first game nearly two decades ago, now encompassing numerous spinoffs, novels, comics, and multimedia adaptations. While its core themes of shadowy conspiracy and historical interpretation have become predictable over the years, the series initially pushed boundaries with audacity, as exemplified by its climactic battles against historical figures like the pope. The recent release of Assassin's Creed Shadows offers a new reboot that merges older game concepts with fresh ideas, highlighting the franchise's ongoing evolution and ambition despite its tendency towards melodrama and complexity.
Over the nearly two decades since the first entry, Assassin's Creed has ballooned into a mixed-media franchise that includes at least seven spinoffs, nine novels, 11 comics, and a Michael Fassbender film, among others.
The second Assassin's Creed ended with the player fistfighting the pope in order to uncover the truth of an ultra-advanced, pre-human civilization.
Assassin's Creed Shadows marks another type of reboot, bringing together ideas from the original trilogy, the "modern" trilogy, and the most recent pseudo-spinoff.
For all of its overwrought melodrama and impenetrable conspiracies, Assassin's Creed has consistently spawned some of the strangest, most self-effacing, and most ambitious AAA games.
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