History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedI

* [RecruitedFromTheGutter: After Talal is killed, Altaïr consults with Al Mualim about the slaver's strange selection of enslaved people, who were poor or sick. Al Mualim explains that it is possible to create from such downtrodden people loyal followers by invoking this trope.

* NPCAmnesia: An [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality essential quirk]] of the game, as anonymity (and thus stealth) would quickly become impossible if the guards remembered what Altaïr looks like. However, they sometimes say "we've fought before" during combat, so apparently they can at least recognize him in that context.

''Assassin's Creed'' is a 2007 action game from Creator/{{Ubisoft}} for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/Xbox360 (backward compatible on UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS) and PC and the first game in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series. It takes place in the Holy Land, [[TheHighMiddleAges 1191 AD]], where disgraced [[TheHashshashin Assassin]] Altaïr ibn-La'Ahad works to redeem himself by eliminating nine men in several cities who are [[WarForFunAndProfit prolonging the Third Crusade]]. Altaïr has swordfighting moves at his disposal, as well as a mastery of LeParkour, throwing knives, and [[SchizoTech a nifty retractable blade]].

* StockholmSyndrome: After Talal is killed, Altaïr consults with Al Mualim about the slaver's strange selection of enslaved people, who were poor or sick. Al Mualim explains that it is possible to [[RecruitedFromTheGutter create from such downtrodden people loyal followers]] by invoking this trope.
-->'''Al Mualim''': What better way to make a soldier than to take a broken man and rebuild him? Give him all he's been denied with the promise of more.\\
'''Altaïr''': It seems a lot of work.\\
'''Al Mualim''': It is. But what you get in return is loyalty. Knowing what it was they stood to lose, such men would be loathe to betray their savior.

** Earth in [[NextSundayAD 2012 A.D.]] is described as a CrapsackWorld where climate change is out of control, refugees are crossing the US-Mexico border ''into'' Mexico, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking nobody makes films anymore]] [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil due to rampant digital piracy]], all implied to be due to the Templars messing around with humanity's development. This element disappears in later games, and ''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' eventually {{Retcon}}s it as the work of a hacker group uploading garbage to Abstergo's database.

** Modern-day Earth in the ''Assassin's Creed'' universe is described as CrapsackWorld where climate change is out of control, refugees are crossing the US-Mexico border ''into'' Mexico, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking nobody makes films anymore]]. Later games would ignore this element, and ''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' would {{Retcon}} it as the work of a hacker group uploading garbage to Abstergo's database.

*** Exposition is delivered in much larger chunks, sometimes awkwardly. Sidequests consist of information gathering in various forms, something that was downplayed or worked into the actual story later in the series. The "historical tourism" element isn't as prevalent in this game as it in the later entries; meaning that while it does recreate famous monuments like the Dome on the Rock and the Ummayad Mosque, it does not draw attention to it via Database Entries like the sequels do. UsefulNotes/TheCrusades also serve more as a backdrop than the historical events of the succeeding games.
*** Also, instead of being ancient, secret organisations from the shadows, the Assassins and Templars are known to everybody and have their own cities and army.

*** The concept that all major breakthroughs of the 20th century are the result of the Templars reverse-engineering Precursor tech is ''never'' mentioned again in the series.