Gaming (Assassins Creed Spoilers, you have been warned)

As was posted in another blog submission in the Pink Hat blog-osphere, most sports fan of our generation are avid gamers. Whether you play primarily Sports, FPS (Shooters), RPG, or some good ole never get boring hack and slashes. I can only speak on my opinion for games and not for what everyone else thinks. I will give a little bit of a review of games, either whats to come, what I own, or what I want to own.

Mike has already brought up Assassins Creed 3. I will go a little further into this in this post. And if you haven't played any of the games and don't want it to be ruined for you don't go any further.

In these games you play as Desmond Miles. A man who is the descendant of many important Assassins. In the first game you are captured by the Templars, a group of people bent on obtaining special objects known as the pieces of eden to gain power and rule the world. Eventually you are freed by one of their employees who does not see eye to eye with their goals.

Assassins Creed is a story of a league of assassins. They follow a simple creed, "Nothing is True, Everything is permitted" Basically they followed a rule of not killing unnecessarily as you will find during game play if you "Accidentally" kill some walker by that is not a guard.

In the first game you Altair, an Arab assassin who follows the orders of his Mentor. Through this first game you learn of the pieces of eden and their tremendous power. In following with what the creed is set up to do, create peace, you find that your mentor has become corrupt and you need to set the balance and eventually dethrone this mentor of the Creed.

In the Second, Brotherhood, and Revelations installment you play as Ezio Auditore. You grow up to find out your father was once an assassin and following his death you yourself become an assassin. You find out about the pieces of eden and their power even more than Altair did, as far as you know by this point. You learn of what the true intention of the Templar's search for power.


Now we come to Assassins Creed 3. You play as a native American that becomes an Assassin. But there's one catch, you're caught in the middle of a war between English and Colonial English (Americans). You have to choose between two Evils, the British or the Americans (Lets face it, we end up stealing their land, we are kinda evil in that fact). You choose to help the Americans in their struggle against the British, who, since the game has not yet been released and by the point all the commercials make, must be laden with Templars. And the best part of it all, it seems to start off and have a great deal to due with Boston. Ya they mention New York but who cares.

For me this game is a double edged sword. Not only does it have a good play to it, in the fact that it is a strategy fighting as well as an stealth play style, but it also has a Historical twist that we can call back to from our classes in grade school. Just like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, its good to see someone taking a historical figure or event and spin it to involve with something deeper and have a different view to it. Below are two of my favorite trailer for the game, I've already reserved my special "I shouldn't be spending this much on just one game" edition version of the game, I recommend you pick up a copy for yourself.