Retro Renegades - Episode: SMACK DAT ASSassin's Creed

<p>Assassin's Creed is an open-world action-adventure stealth video game &nbsp;franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio &nbsp;Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced &nbsp;derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, &nbsp;the Assassin's Creed series depicts a fictional millennia-old struggle &nbsp;between the Assassins, who fight for peace with free will, and the &nbsp;Templars, who desire peace through order and control. The series &nbsp;features historical fiction, science fiction and fictional characters &nbsp;intertwined with real-world historical events and figures. For the &nbsp;majority of time players control an Assassin in the past history, while &nbsp;also playing as Desmond Miles or an Assassin Initiate in the present &nbsp;day, who hunt down their Templar targets. The series took inspiration &nbsp;from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, based on &nbsp;the historical Hashashin sect of the medieval Middle East,[1] while &nbsp;building upon concepts from the Prince of Persia series.[2] &nbsp;The series's eponymous first title was released in 2007, and it has &nbsp;featured twelve main games in total, the most recent being 2020's &nbsp;Valhalla. Main games of Assassin's Creed are set in an open world and &nbsp;presented from the third-person perspective where the protagonists take &nbsp;down targets using their combat and stealth skills with the exploitation &nbsp;of the environment. Players have freedom to explore the historical &nbsp;settings as they finish main and side quests. Apart from single-player &nbsp;missions, some games also provide competitive and cooperative &nbsp;multiplayer gameplay. A new story and occasional new time period are &nbsp;introduced in each entry, and gameplay elements evolve from the previous &nbsp;one. There are three-story arcs in the series. For the first five main &nbsp;games, the framing story is set in 2012 and features series protagonist &nbsp;Desmond Miles who uses a