New to series - which games to play in order?

[earthprime163]

I'm finally playing this series and see a ton of games have been released for the franchise. For the main story, do I play the following games in-order?

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Do these games fit into the main canon above?

Assassin's Creed Rogue
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Syndicate

[HiTmAn]

Assassin's Creed Rogue
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Syndicate... they have own story... black flag and rogue are really good

[hammerstar]

That's actually kind of the exact order to play them, both story and technically.

It's actually pretty hard to go back to the older ones after playing newer ones, as a lot of abilities you take for granted later on, like dragging guys off ledges or dropping on them from above, weren't in the first game. Same for a lot of the more advanced stealth mechanics not introduced until later in the series.

[ZERO]

The first 4 are put into a good place, altough the actions of Black Flag happen before Rogue and 3, plus counting the fact that theres a plot twist regarding Rogue, Unity comes into that image placed in between Rogue and 3, thus making the list go something like this.

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed: IV Black Flag
Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Assassin's Creed: III
Assassin's Creed: Unity
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Altough if you want to play the games in terms of realese date and how the story was done in those ways then be my guest, do as you wish its your choice really. Still in the end you'll have one blast of a time going trough the intire plot of the game. Also its much recommended that you pick up the Dlc's for most of the games as they sort of fit into the whole perspective of it.

[TacticalFaux]

I'm a long-time Assassins Creed fan and am very into all the lore. I'm excited to see someone eager to join in and am willing to offer anything I can to help you get situated. I should also add in order to fully get all the lore and story out of it all, you'd really need to do modern day and side activities. The main storyline only gives a fraction of what there is to learn. Add me and I'll answer any and all questions you may have. :D

Anyway, you should start with AC1, and read the emails around the modern day parts. However, be aware AC1 presents the story in a poor and repetitive way. Long story short it isn't the best representation on what Assassins Creed offers, but it started it all. If you don't want to deal with the repitition, you should read the Novelization. However, that does not include the modern day bits. (But it does include Altairs journey in Cypris, which is only in the DS game otherwise)

From there AC2, Brotherhood, and Revelations should be played in that order. They all have the same main character so it wouldn't make much sense playing them out of order. After Revelations, look for the short film "Assassins Creed Embers" on YouTube. It shows the events after Revelations.

If you watch Embers, it will introduce another Assassin, Shao Jun. She is in Assassins Creed Chronicles: China. (Which I have a key for actually, to anyone who is interested in a fair deal of sorts) After China, do India, then Russia. That trilogy all links together.

Assassins Creed Rouge is a prequal to AC3, and Black Flag and Freedom Cry are prequals to that. However the modern day story will backtrack if you play out of order. So go 3, Black Flag, Rouge.

Simply said, play Unity before Syndicate and then cry while you wait for Empire to come out.

TL,DR; (Above gives reasoning)

Assassins Creed
Altairs Chronicles (DS exclusive, but the lore for it is in the AC1 novelization)
Assassins Creed Lineage (Short film, find it on YouTube)
Assassins Creed 2
Assassins Creed: Brotherhood
Assassins Creed: Revelations (Multiplayer has a story as well)
Assassins Creed: Embers (Short film, find it on YouTube)
Assassins Creed Chronicles: China
Assassins Creed Chronicles: India
Assassins Creed Chronicles: Russia
Assassins Creed 3
Assassins Creed 3: Liberation HD
Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag
Assassins Creed 4: Freedom Cry (Available in stand-alone or as a Black Flag DLC)
Assassins Creed Rouge
Assassins Creed Unity
Assassins Creed Syndicate
Assassins Creed Movie

All of these are canon, as well as the novels and the comics.

[TacticalFaux]

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The first 4 are put into a good place, altough the actions of Black Flag happen before Rogue and 3, plus counting the fact that theres a plot twist regarding Rogue, Unity comes into that image placed in between Rogue and 3, thus making the list go something like this.

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed: IV Black Flag
Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Assassin's Creed: III
Assassin's Creed: Unity
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Altough if you want to play the games in terms of realese date and how the story was done in those ways then be my guest, do as you wish its your choice really. Still in the end you'll have one blast of a time going trough the intire plot of the game. Also its much recommended that you pick up the Dlc's for most of the games as they sort of fit into the whole perspective of it.

Should NOT play Rouge before III now that I think about it. It would backtrack the modern story.

[Killzone]

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

[ZERO]

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The first 4 are put into a good place, altough the actions of Black Flag happen before Rogue and 3, plus counting the fact that theres a plot twist regarding Rogue, Unity comes into that image placed in between Rogue and 3, thus making the list go something like this.

Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Assassin's Creed: IV Black Flag
Assassin's Creed: Rogue
Assassin's Creed: III
Assassin's Creed: Unity
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Altough if you want to play the games in terms of realese date and how the story was done in those ways then be my guest, do as you wish its your choice really. Still in the end you'll have one blast of a time going trough the intire plot of the game. Also its much recommended that you pick up the Dlc's for most of the games as they sort of fit into the whole perspective of it.

Should play Rouge before III now that I think about it. It would backtrack the modern story.

It makes sense tbh to do that as you technicaly get to see the story before the actions of III as you get to see the former colonial brotherhood and such as well. Dont understand doe why people are giving Rogue such a bad reputation doe, the game its base looks like Black Flag and plays like it but overall it has its own plot and is an amazing edition to the whole franchise, would be nice if we got introduced to more of this as it isnt that bad to switch sides in a while and to get to see the story from a difrent perspective.

[TacticalFaux]

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Should play Rouge before III now that I think about it. It would backtrack the modern story.

It makes sense tbh to do that as you technicaly get to see the story before the actions of III as you get to see the former colonial brotherhood and such as well. Dont understand doe why people are giving Rogue such a bad reputation doe, the game its base looks like Black Flag and plays like it but overall it has its own plot and is an amazing edition to the whole franchise, would be nice if we got introduced to more of this as it isnt that bad to switch sides in a while and to get to see the story from a difrent perspective.

I like Rogue, but I do believe because of the modern story it could really change things. Without giving spoilers, you have to remember some really signifigant events happen in AC3 modern day. They would make references to it in Rogue modern day thinking you have already done AC3.

[ZERO]

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It makes sense tbh to do that as you technicaly get to see the story before the actions of III as you get to see the former colonial brotherhood and such as well. Dont understand doe why people are giving Rogue such a bad reputation doe, the game its base looks like Black Flag and plays like it but overall it has its own plot and is an amazing edition to the whole franchise, would be nice if we got introduced to more of this as it isnt that bad to switch sides in a while and to get to see the story from a difrent perspective.

I like Rogue, but I do believe because of the modern story it could really change things. Without giving spoilers, you have to remember some really signifigant events happen in AC3 modern day. They would make references to it in Rogue modern day thinking you have already done AC3.

Gotta love how masive the intire story is by its self.

[TacticalFaux]

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I like Rogue, but I do believe because of the modern story it could really change things. Without giving spoilers, you have to remember some really signifigant events happen in AC3 modern day. They would make references to it in Rogue modern day thinking you have already done AC3.

Gotta love how masive the intire story is by its self.

Agreed. Add me? Everyone else I meet hates the story or doesn't care. XD

Please help. XD

[ZERO]

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Gotta love how masive the intire story is by its self.

Agreed. Add me? Everyone else I meet hates the story or doesn't care. XD

Please help. XD

Yeah sure thing man I accepte the invite, and yeah I feel you on that note its the same ♥♥♥♥ with me really xD

[hammerstar]

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Gotta love how masive the intire story is by its self.

Agreed. Add me? Everyone else I meet hates the story or doesn't care. XD

Please help. XD

Well, most people I know feel the series would be better off without the modern angle story and tend to ignore it as a result.

Though I also remember when AC3 first came out, there were a lot of people that were sore just because it wasn't Ezio as the star anymore, as they'd apparently attached the series to him as the hero instead of the overall Assassin/Templar war as it was actually intended.

I love Revelations, in fact it's my favorite of the Ezio trilogy, but three games with the same star was too many. And Connor is a perfectly good character that I liked the change from Ezio's personality. He doesn't deserve the ♥♥♥♥ a lot of people give him, and I think they just want to hate him because, again, he's not Ezio.

I mean, if I were to really gripe about the story, it's how slowly the modern story develops that I feel is the problem. It treads water most of the time, and it's big events do have a tendency of just happening with little warning (a major event of Brotherhood makes zero sense until a rather badly handled Revelations DLC, for example).

Plus AC3 does give you some small tastes of what a modern AC game could have been, and it actually kind of pisses me off that we didn't get a real modern set game instead of those little set pieces.

[TacticalFaux]

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Well, most people I know feel the series would be better off without the modern angle story and tend to ignore it as a result.

Plus AC3 does give you some small tastes of what a modern AC game could have been, and it actually kind of pisses me off that we didn't get a real modern set game instead of those little set pieces.

1. This is true, unfortunatly. People don't seem to realize that modern day is the main part of it all. It's the whole reason we are going into the animus and it poses the modern problems that are happening to us right now.

2. Those modern "tastes" work for AC3 as level-based but there are a few things you may have overlooked. A modern AC would imply open world, not level-based like they were and this is a problem because countlessly murdering guards in modern day would ruin the idea that Assassins Creed exists in our own, modern, IRL world. Second is in those modern bits the enemies you do fight use batons and such. Melee, which isn't totally realistic for modern Templars trying to take out Desmond with a knife. That obviously isn't a major problem compared to others but it would suck to turn Assassins Creed into a shooter. Also you would have to assassinate people who are still alive today, which wouldn't make any sense as it would again ruin the connection between AC and IRL when they arn't dead. Not to mention the fact of how much controversy it would raise.

[ZERO]

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Agreed. Add me? Everyone else I meet hates the story or doesn't care. XD

Please help. XD

Well, most people I know feel the series would be better off without the modern angle story and tend to ignore it as a result.

Though I also remember when AC3 first came out, there were a lot of people that were sore just because it wasn't Ezio as the star anymore, as they'd apparently attached the series to him as the hero instead of the overall Assassin/Templar war as it was actually intended.

I love Revelations, in fact it's my favorite of the Ezio trilogy, but three games with the same star was too many. And Connor is a perfectly good character that I liked the change from Ezio's personality. He doesn't deserve the ♥♥♥♥ a lot of people give him, and I think they just want to hate him because, again, he's not Ezio.

I mean, if I were to really gripe about the story, it's how slowly the modern story develops that I feel is the problem. It treads water most of the time, and it's big events do have a tendency of just happening with little warning (a major event of Brotherhood makes zero sense until a rather badly handled Revelations DLC, for example).

Plus AC3 does give you some small tastes of what a modern AC game could have been, and it actually kind of pisses me off that we didn't get a real modern set game instead of those little set pieces.

If you want a modern day aspect of the game go ahead and play Watch Dogs cuz thats the closest you'll get to have one, the modern day aspect was there only as a small playable part which connected both the modern day and historical day and wouldn't work on its own as it would basicaly also end up ruining the intire modern day plot. AC wouldn't end up going in a right direction if it were mainly the modern day aspect tbh that would be the literall worst choice to be made as it would ruin the intire point of the series, the series are fun because of the historic ♥♥♥♥ and going way and way further into the future would just limit the story and make a downfall for it. So no, to prove you a point the modern day thing wouldn't work so well if it were a main priority constantly.

[hammerstar]

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Well, most people I know feel the series would be better off without the modern angle story and tend to ignore it as a result.

Though I also remember when AC3 first came out, there were a lot of people that were sore just because it wasn't Ezio as the star anymore, as they'd apparently attached the series to him as the hero instead of the overall Assassin/Templar war as it was actually intended.

I love Revelations, in fact it's my favorite of the Ezio trilogy, but three games with the same star was too many. And Connor is a perfectly good character that I liked the change from Ezio's personality. He doesn't deserve the ♥♥♥♥ a lot of people give him, and I think they just want to hate him because, again, he's not Ezio.

I mean, if I were to really gripe about the story, it's how slowly the modern story develops that I feel is the problem. It treads water most of the time, and it's big events do have a tendency of just happening with little warning (a major event of Brotherhood makes zero sense until a rather badly handled Revelations DLC, for example).

Plus AC3 does give you some small tastes of what a modern AC game could have been, and it actually kind of pisses me off that we didn't get a real modern set game instead of those little set pieces.

If you want a modern day aspect of the game go ahead and play Watch Dogs cuz thats the closest you'll get to have one, the modern day aspect was there only as a small playable part which connected both the modern day and historical day and wouldn't work on its own as it would basicaly also end up ruining the intire modern day plot. AC wouldn't end up going in a right direction if it were mainly the modern day aspect tbh that would be the literall worst choice to be made as it would ruin the intire point of the series, the series are fun because of the historic ♥♥♥♥ and going way and way further into the future would just limit the story and make a downfall for it. So no, to prove you a point the modern day thing wouldn't work so well if it were a main priority constantly.

No no no, that's not what I was saying. I would not just want a random modern AC in the middle of the series.

The fact is, a modern AC would only work as a final conclusion to the series, and yes, it's blatantly obvious Ubisoft was already on the track of milking AC for as long as possible by the time AC3 finally came out.

Because this thread is posted by someone new to the series, I don't want to talk about specific spoilers, but a lot of AC3's modern aspect could have been built upon futher to make a genuinely epic conclusion to the whole thing, and instead we get a "rival" for Desmond who is more pathetic that Kai Lang was in Mass Effect 3, and Lang got the hell beat out of him by a half-dead cripple.

But I'm well aware the series is now past the point a modern setting could even be done, except again, as a final conclusion to the entire series, and the way Ubisoft is treating the series, that probably won't happen because they'll just kill it when it finally does stop selling.

And as for comparing it to Watch Dogs, I've played it. Aside from being an incredibly dull game overall, Aiden Pierce is the only game protagonist I've genuinely hated for his personality. And that's not because he's boring, as many people claim, but because I actually looked over the kinds of things he does versus what he's saying, and he's easily the most disturbing sociopath to ever be called a "hero" in a game that I've ever encountered.