When Notre-Dame erupted in flames in 2019, many feared that all the details of the centuries old cathedral would be lost to history and that any effort to restore the building would fail to capture the many unique features that wowed millions of visitors every year.
The story goes that an unlikely helping hand came to the rescue in the form of Ubisoft, the French video game studio behind the runaway success story that is the Assassin's Creed series. Each incarnation of the game is set in a different historical world, allowing players to explore everywhere from Ancient Egypt to Renaissance Italy. The anthology has won millions of fans across the globe thanks in no small part to the incredibly accurate and life-like replicas it features of real-world buildings, allowing players to scramble over the Pyramids of Giza, London’s Bank of England, and Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.
