Which Assassin's Creed Game Should You Play First? There's quite a few places you could start in the Assassin's Creed timeline, and I personally recommend picking the game set in ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Having worked as a writer since 2014, Martin Wood started as a gaming academic before joining GameRant. His passion and aspirations for the field began with his childhood favorites, like Pokemon ...

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a return to form for the series. It doesn't make my personal top three, but it manages to be a colossal, time-stealing open-world game without feeling like a chore or a ...

Discover the full chronological release order of all 15 mainline Assassin's Creed games, from the original in 2007 to the latest entry of 2025.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be the latest game in the long-running series, but its feudal Japan setting places it at the midpoint of the series’ historical timeline. That’s because Assassin’s Creed ...

Ubisoft has activated the Animus once more, this time to take us back to Japan’s Sengoku Period. Assassin’s Creed Shadows features a number of historical figures from 1579, including Fujibayashi ...

The first Creed game was released in 2007. The main protagonist is Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, who was born into the Brotherhood, which we will see commonly throughout the series. Altaïr has a more abrasive ...

Though the history of Assassin’s Creed starts in B.C. times, the earliest, playable part of the franchise begins in 1190 A.D. Altair, an Assassin, must retrieve an ancient relic known as the Chalice ...

Few game characters have ever become quite so iconic as that of Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Assassin’s Creed II, which launched way back in 2009. His backstory is deep, his character development is ...

Assassin's Creed has expanded beyond video games over the years to become a cross-media franchise with dozens of books and graphic novels that flesh out the dense mythology of Ubisoft's stealth-action ...