The Historical Inaccuracies of Assassin’s Creed

Four reasons you might not want to cite the Assassin’s series in your next term paper.

By: Scott Sharkey
November 9, 2011

Assassin’s Creed has a knack for weaving scientific and historical facts in and out of a fantastical tale of ancient conspiracies and hilarious ultra-violence. Meanwhile, for all the time we spend marveling at accurately presented old world architecture and associated historical factoids, we spend almost as much time twitching one eye at ludicrous oversights and inaccuracy. Sure, it’s a rollicking James Bond-esque tale where reality sometimes takes a back seat to spectacle and action. We’re prepared to accept stuff like ol’ Leo DaVinci’s prototype parachute actually accomplishing anything besides turning your assassin ass into piazza pizza, but sometimes the game goes beyond Hudson Hawk levels of crazy and takes our suspension of disbelief out behind the barn and shoots it in the back of the head with an unerringly accurate 16th century automatic handgun.

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