Ubisoft confirms Assassin's Creed Anthology

Recently, details about the Assassin’s Creed Anthology set had been leaked, thanks to a listing on Amazon France. According to Eurogamer, Ubisoft has confirmed the Anthology set and has announced the list of contents that will be making its way into the Assassin’s Creed Anthology. While the console versions of the Anthology have been announced, there is no sign of a PC version. The Anthology is set to cost 119.99 pounds, which roughly translates to Rs 10,430, and will be released on November 30.

The Anthology is set to come out on October 30

Here are the contents of the Assassin’s Creed Anthology:

• Assassin’s Creed
• Assassin’s Creed 2, plus Sequence 12: Battle of Forlì DLC and Sequence 13: Bonfire of the Vanities DLC
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood - The Da Vinci Edition, includes The Da Vinci Disappearance single-player add-on, 2 additional missions: Trajan Market and the Aqueducts, new multiplayer features: 1 Map + 6 Characters + 2 new modes
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations - The Ottoman Edition, includes The Lost Archive single-player add-on, 3 Skins, Capacity upgrades and additional mission: Vlad the Impaler’s Prison, plus new multiplayer features: 6 Maps + 7 Characters + Customisation Items
• Assassin’s Creed 3, plus a Season Pass for all forthcoming DLC

Along with this, Ubisoft has also announced the release window for the first major DLC that will be part of the Assassin’s Creed III Season Pass. The first DLC will be the opening chapter in the what-if story missions that will have you fight an evil George Washington. The DLC is set to release mid-December.

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The DLC is set to be a single player campaign that will be split into three episodes. The season pass for the Evil George Washington DLC (not the official name) is set to cost 2400 Microsoft points on Xbox Live and $30 (around Rs 1,560) on the other platforms. The season pass will include all three episodes as well as multiplayer DLC that will feature new maps and characters.

Earlier, Ubisoft had talked about the DLC during the Eurogamer Expo. “We know that not everyone will buy it,” Assassin’s Creed 3 director Alex Hutchinson said. “So it’s a ‘what the f***’ chunk of story that, if you missed it, the next game will still make sense.”

The Assassin’s Creed series deals with a secret war that has lasted millennia between the Assassins and the Templars. The Assassins seek to fight for the free will of people, while the Templars seek to control them. The first game was set during the Holy Crusades in Jerusalem. Protagonist Altaïr ibn-La’Ahad would have to jump from rooftops and sneak into groups of people in order to find and assassinate his targets.

The second game was set during the Renaissance era in Florence. The main protagonist of the ‘II’ series of games - Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations - is Ezio Auditore. The II series of games dealt with the evolution of Ezio as a character, who starts out as a revenge-driven teenager only to become a highly-skilled master of Assassins. Altaïr also makes an appearance in Revelation, showing the aged assassin’s last few days. The secondary protagonist of the series is Desmond Miles, who is accessing his ‘genetic memory’ to live the lives of his Ancestors Altaïr and Ezio.

You can read our review of Assassin’s Creed III here.