Do I need to play AC 1 - 3 first?

[candiedbug]

Or can each game be enjoyed by itself withouth having to have played the prequels?

[Ensign]

Yes each game can be enjoyed on its own. With every new game they reference the one before it only breifly and sparsely throughout ur play through but they never leave huge gaps that leave you guessing. If you havent played the past games they wont just go "remember what u did in istanbul?(setting of the last game while lplaying ac3) and leave it at that.

Ive played AC 1,2,3 and completely glossed over brotherhood and revelations since they just looked like more AC2. I havent touched the psp versions either. I gotta tell you the main story about templars in modern day and desmonds story do carry over from game to game and has refrenced its past games in its newest ones. But as fun as combat in the game is the story itself is boreing.....

No you dont have to play the previous iterations since in its newest games what u did in the past games is more of a footnote and focus on its current story. But if ur interested in getting a nice recap of the events of All the Ac's minus 3 watch this vid it certainly helped me when i played AC3 having not played brotherhood or revelations which AC3 constantly seems to reference....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnfg1rDmNIw

Its the entire storyline in 8 mins minus 3. There are more detailed videos but those are like half hour affairs and this one does a pretty good job at getting ur foot in the door of the AC universe.


Oh i should also mention....this may be a contraversial statement here but all Ac games play pretty similarly (the first one was unique in its heavy feel of weapons and combat where the newer ones are much snappier and rapier like) if you play all the ac's consequtively chances are you will be too bored to play the newst one....The games really are just so very similar.

[Ø76923]

In the last few games, they kept new players up to date with a recap at the start, so if the story is continued you should be fine. I'd still recommend playing the others anyway if you can find them cheap.

[Dont Worry]

i recommend u play AC1 and AC2 , they are personally my favorite assassin's creed games of all time, you don't have to play them to play AC4 but it would be a lot better to have an experience with the franchise

[candiedbug]

Thank you all for the replies, and thank you Ensign for that recap video , it has actually intrigued me to the point Im thinking of playing the prequels now. :)

[Noam]

To fully understand the world and universe of Assassin' Creed , Yes you need to play all games.
You need to understand who's Desmond, who are you now, what is the past in both Modern Times and overally in the world. What the hell is Abstergo and for whom they stand for?

[Pakundo]

I recommend each and every single Assassin's Creed game.
Because even when one particular entry in the series isn't a very good Assassin's Creed, it's still a pretty good game.