Assassin's Creed: All games in the series ranked by release dates

Modified Jul 30, 2020 12:50 GMT

Players may have forgotten but the Assassin's Creed franchise has been around for a while now. Ubisoft's now-gigantic annual release mammoth began as a spin-off of the Prince of Persia franchise.

The idea was to tell the story of the Prince's bodyguards: Assassins. Quite ironically, the idea grew to become so popular amongst Ubisoft employees it ended up killing the Prince of Persia franchise.

Assassin's Creed emerged as a fresh new IP from Ubisoft and eventually grew into one of the most prominent fixtures of modern gaming. The fans fell in love especially with the sequel to the original, which is still regarded as one of the best in the series.

A while later, fatigue began to set in as Ubisoft opted for an annual release structure, which meant that there would be a new AC game every year.

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Many players felt that this arrangement would mean that each game wouldn't get the care and attention it deserves in development. This is why the company ditched the annual release structure since Syndicate.