It might have gone spectacularly off the boil across the last few years, but there was something about the second Assassin's Creed that really elevated the series into another level. Sequel Brotherhood again went to new heights thanks to some enhanced customisation options and a sweet 'Call in your Assassins' command in-game, but it's when you take both these and AC: Revelations that you see a meaningful narrative chunk in the overall AC story. Main man throughout this trilogy, Ezio's death never actually happens in a game - instead he passes away gracefully in animation AC: Embers (check it out, it's awesome). Altair on the other hand - the first game's hero and return player in Revelations - bows out due to old age, slowly accepting his fate by locking himself in a tomb, awaiting whoever would come later down the line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBPzrtJQYeg It may be a bit hard to remember a time when you genuinely cared about Assassin's Creed's characters, but for everything Ubisoft did extremely well in fleshing out Altair's influence from the first game into some overarching influential narrative superpower, having to actually then watch the end of his life in such a humbly affecting way was just sublime.
