Assassin’s Creed games have always shared a handful of defining core tenets: a focus on stealth, drawing on rich real-world history, and the central conflict between Assassins and Templars. But in 2018, the franchise threw out the playbook — and was better for it. The result was a game that doubled down on the vision established one year earlier, opting for an expansive open-world RPG that doesn’t care about all the convoluted lore the series has worked up.
