Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines on PSP is the first Assassin’s Creed game on the PSP system. It follows the story of Altair right after the events of Assassin’s Creed as Altair tracks down the last Templars who…

45 17 November 2009

What Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines is

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines is an adventure game developed by Griptonite Games and released in 2009. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Beginning shortly after the end of the first game, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad learns of a plan of the remaining Templars to escape to Cyprus, and so infiltrates one of their strongholds in Acre to stop them from doing so. Although he does not succeed in this regard, he does defeat and capture Maria Thorpe, who attempted to avenge her former master, Robert de Sablé, who died at Altaïr's hands. Managing to charter a ship, Altaïr also heads to Cyprus in pursuit of the apple, with Maria in tow. Once there, he learns of the presence of Armand Bouchart, who has succeeded Robert de Sablé, as Grand Master of the Templar Order. Altaïr also learns, and gains the assistance, of a resistance movement in the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines is the ninth of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed II: The Master Assassin's Edition in 2009. Its critic score of 45 is 30 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.

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How it was received

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 22 points below the year average. Players rate it 53, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines launched on 17 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Official trailer