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Assassin’s Creed Revelations 2011

wrapped up Ezio’s trilogy, sending a our hero eastwards to Constantinople. was originally to be a mobile game, and it sometimes feels like it, with Constantinople contrasting with previous settings mostly in art direction. It’s a work of narrative surgery: Ezio’s journey in in fact begins, and ends, with him poking through an assassin library at Masyaf, turning Ezio’s last act into a farewell for Altaïr as well. Desmond’s tale, meanwhile, approaches its climax: in a coma since , his excavation of what Altaïr did with his Apple of Eden via Ezio is key to discovering a way to avert an impending solar flare.

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