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Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition

Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced…

13 November 2007

Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 13 November 2007 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition is

Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2007. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Scimitar.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Desmond Miles, a bartender, is kidnapped by the company Abstergo Industries for use as a test subject in the "Animus," a device that can simulate genetic memory. Abstergo intends to put Desmond in the device to recall the memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a member of the Assassin Brotherhood in the year 1191, who lived during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. Initially, Desmond has trouble adjusting to the device, but eventually relives Altaïr's exploits over the next several days. The game then primarily changes to Altaïr's point-of-view, with occasional transitions to Desmond, due to problems with the Animus or onset of the Bleeding Effect. The game opens with Desmond…
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition is the third of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles in 2008.

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What it launched against

Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition launched on 13 November 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

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Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition was released on 13 November 2007 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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