8 Video Games In Desperate Need Of A Remaster

In recent years some earlier Assassin's Creed entries have returned to varying degrees of quality. In 2016, the brilliant Assassin's Creed 2 and its expansions received a lacklustre texture and lighting update, and last year saw a full-fledged remaster of 2012's uninspired yawn-fest Assassin's Creed 3 - leading players to further question the kind of wavelength Ubisoft is operating on. Sadly, Ubisoft Montreal's flawed yet ambitious 2007 original appears to have been left to rot as a relic of the seventh generation of consoles' early days.

The game is, admittedly, very flawed indeed. The engine is clunky, the missions are repetitive and Altair's stupid midwest accent feels incongruous amongst the more authentic-sounding supporting cast. However, where Ass Creed 1 shines is its setting. 12th century Palestine, a holy land under siege from crusaders provides the basis for a fictional retelling of the historical real-life conflict between the Order Of Assassins and the Knights Templar. It's gritty and urgent, and wandering the grand city of Damascus or the filthy, disease-ridden streets of Acre gave a real sense of a land and a people affected by war where there are only shades of grey.

To make it worthwhile, the game would need some serious reworking from the ground up, eschewing its arcade-y, repetitive errands in service of more engaging missions. The risk would also be present of the game being reworked into a bloated mess like the series' latest iterations, but to liberate the Holy Land all over again would be very special indeed.