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		<title>Rant: Assassins Freed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil gripes about the many faults in Assassins Creed and sticks a knife in UBISoft's ribs. <p><a href="http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2013/01/10/rant-assassins-reed/">... more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a></p>]]></description>
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<p>A couple of years ago, I was browsing around my local branch of <a href="http://www.jbhifi.co.nz/stores/new-zealand/north-island/bayfair/" title="JB Hi-Fi (opens in new window)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JB Hi-Fi</a> and in the discount bin, I came across a cut-price copy of the original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_%28video_game%29" title="Wikipedia article: Assassins Creed (opens in new window)" target="_blank"><em>Assassins Creed</em></a>.</p>
<p>It proved to be a reasonably entertaining game, with an intriguing storyline; the chief protaganist, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Miles" title="Wikipedia article: Desmond Miles (opens in new window)" target="_blank">Desmond Miles</a> is kidnapped by members of a sinister organisation called Abstergo, a corporate front for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar_and_popular_culture" title="Wikipedia article: Knights Templar in popular culture (opens in new window)" target="_blank">Knights Templar</a>. Desmond&#8217;s captors explain that human DNA is actually a complex set of ancestral memories, which can be viewed by placing the subject in a device called an Animus. The Animus allows a subject to &#8220;re-live&#8221; the memories of his/her ancestor(s) in a sort of Virtual Reality environment and in doing so, &#8220;unlock&#8221; memories which are then recorded by the Animus. It&#8217;s a sort of Medieval-Arabic-Ninja-meets-The-Matrix</p>
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