Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles

Assassin’s Creed produced a record-breaking amount of hype last year and all I can say is some of it was well wasted but when people heard that a Nintendo DS version of the game was going to soon be released people began to underestimate the credibility of the franchise’s success. As a great fan of the console version of Assassin’s Creed I heard that the storyline in the DS version wouldn’t follow the events of the title I had been playing so I decided to get myself the game to find out what happens in this particular chapter of Altair’s adventures. I have also been a fan of the popular mobile phone game and had mixed reactions to find that gamesloft were helping with this game too.

The game doesn’t clearly state when it was set but fans can only assume that it is set within the period of the console version, 1099 but because this is a prequel you could guess that it is set a few years before. Altair is still within the assassin’s order but you don’t get to see a lot of their strong...