7 Times Game Developers Messed Up Historical Characters
1. Everyone In All Of The Assassin's Creed Games
Assassin's Creed is the true MVP when it comes to games in historical settings. It took us from the Crusades over to the Peloponnesian Wars to the Italian Renaissance and into the streets of Victorian London. No other gaming series has starred so many geniuses, generals, criminals, and politicians of history.
While AC shows us it chosen time periods quite accurately, there are still some flaws in their depictions. For example, loading a brigantine like the Jackdaw with up to 48 cannons, which would flip the hell of that type of ship, or seeing no damn French ship in the Caribbean in the 1760s.
But where the Assassin's Creed franchise definitely lacks in historical accuracy is its characters.
But I don't think I have to point out that Leonardo da Vinci, the renowned artist and inventor, never built a hidden wrist gun. It is very unlikely as well that Alexander Graham Bell, the father of the telephone, ever even thought about constructing a rope launcher, and for Christ sake, Pope Rodrigo Borgia never had a fist fight in the Vatican City.