Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

He subconsciously clicked on those contents.

In the next video, it's the same man in the white robe and hood.

He followed a group of people who looked like acolytes into the city.

He remained calm and composed in the face of those heavily armed soldiers.

Soon the protagonist found a target.

Davidson found the name of the target somewhat familiar.

He recalled carefully that it was indeed a prominent figure suspected of assassination in the history of the Crusades.

This game essentially confirms that this person was assassinated.

Of course, historical controversies cannot be easily resolved based on the performance of a single game, just like the fictional history depicted in movies.

He didn't care whether the game's story was true or false, but the contrast between truth and falsehood gave Davidson a completely new feeling.

He wants to play this game.

In this demonstration, he saw characters freely exploring that 11th-century world.

The rustic architectural style and the exquisite details deeply impressed Davidson, who was already quite interested in history.

This is also his biggest motivation for wanting to play the game himself.

So he turned off the video notifications from the game and started searching for more information about Assassin's Creed.

He then learned that to play the game, he needed to purchase a digital version using a PC, or buy a GSX console and game cartridges.

After seeing the price of the game and the price of the console, he hardly hesitated.

buy!

I spend over a hundred dollars a month on Candy Crush.

And a game console costs only $399, which is quite a bargain.

A PC isn't a bad option, but his PC hasn't been upgraded in a long time, and he's not sure if it can run such a game. He remembers reading some news articles about video games that mentioned the performance requirements of PC games.

Therefore, it's more convenient to just buy a home desktop computer.

He immediately started searching online for ways to purchase the GSX game console.

Online shopping is now quite developed, and upon seeing that he could shop online, he paid for his purchase on the shopping website without hesitation.

I also bought a pre-order cartridge of Assassin's Creed along with it.

The game consoles will be sent to Davidson first, while the Assassin's Creed cartridges will be mailed out as soon as they are released.

The release of Assassin's Creed is imminent, scheduled for early February 2009, so we just need to wait a little longer.

When he got home from get off work, he first looked through his bookshelf for stories about the Crusades, and then continued to search online for content related to Assassin's Creed. Suddenly, he had a feeling of exploring the unknown again.

But... he only realized how painful the waiting time was after he bought the game.

The more he wanted to play the game, the more he hoped it would be released right now.

It's already the end of January, and there are less than ten days left until the official release, but every day feels like an eternity.

During this time, he accidentally entered the official forum of Youxing Electronic Entertainment and saw that people had started discussing the content of Assassin's Creed. He took the initiative to participate and then saw some comments that he quite agreed with.

I'll die if I don't have Assassin's Creed to play!

Why hasn't this game been released yet?!

Davidson feels the same way now; he really can't wait even a day longer.

So, to alleviate his anxiety, he chose to share stories about the Crusades with others on social media.

This also helped him to distract himself from the Crusades. He also received a lot of praise for sharing his knowledge of the history of the Crusades, which motivated him to share the relevant historical background.

In the process, he also discovered that many people who were originally not interested in history wanted to actively engage with history because of Assassin's Creed.

This surprised Davidson somewhat.

He had always thought that video games were just for entertainment, without much substance, and at most they could improve mental exercise, perhaps preventing him from developing dementia when he got older.

But now it seems that many people are actually expanding their hobbies because of video games.

People who don't like history are now actively starting to engage with it.

This may lead to problems in their judgment of history, because people have a preconceived notion, and many people may gradually come to believe that the history of Assassin's Creed is true.

But that's not a big problem. It's already quite good that people are interested in history. People's views can be gradually changed, but it's not so easy to generate interest and hobbies.

As someone with a relatively good understanding of history, Davidson quickly gained some fame on the official forums.

In real life, he was just an ordinary warehouse manager.

But online, he experienced being worshipped for the first time.

In the past, even if he went to great lengths to share historical stories related to the Crusades online, he might not have attracted many readers.

But things are different now, which is a pleasant surprise.

During this sharing process, Assassin's Creed was finally officially released.

This is the world's first truly open-world, industrialized sandbox game.

The game fully embodies gameplay features such as clearing out strongholds, exploring maps, collecting items, and multiple side quests.

People in later generations may have long been tired of this kind of gameplay, but for the people of this world, it is a completely new experience.

It will probably be several years before people in this world want to play this game to the point of exhaustion.

On the day of release, Davidson couldn't wait and ended up buying the digital version of Assassin's Creed directly through GSX's online service.

He could play the digital version of the game immediately, and although the physical version should be available soon, he just couldn't wait; he wanted to play the game right now.

Chapter 799 Opening Up a New Landscape

799

In the original game, the playable area of ​​Assassin's Creed I was not particularly large. If calculated based on a 1:1 scale map in reality, the explorable area of ​​a map in Assassin's Creed I was only about 0.3 square kilometers.

This is big enough for the average player.

The area of ​​the previous Zelda game, Ocarina of Time, was not smaller than that of Assassin's Creed.

However, Assassin's Creed has much richer details in many places.

This is the effect brought about by a new generation of game consoles, something that past consoles couldn't achieve.

At the same time, Assassin's Creed was the first game to attempt to reuse assets more extensively.

Minimize repetitive and redundant work, giving developers more room to imagine and allowing them to add as many interactive elements as possible to this vast world.

The initial framework for this game was developed collaboratively by thousands of people in a single classroom session.

The entire development cycle took only one week.

What Youxing Electronics Entertainment did next was mainly to add more mini-game content to the game, as well as to further refine the game's models and scenes. The final product was roughly equivalent to the graphics performance of Assassin's Creed 3-4.

In this game, the Assassin's Creed map has been expanded by Zhuyouxing to be about twice the size of the original game.

But simply expanding the map is not technically challenging, and Zhuyouxing disdains doing just that; if they're going to do it, they'll make it more complex and comprehensive.

Aside from the usual operations like clearing outposts and question marks, Bamboo Star has simplified these tasks as much as possible to avoid making the game too tiring.

There's no need to put everything on a map, making it overwhelming and confusing at first glance.

In this respect, Red Dead Redemption and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are among the best.

Everything awaits your exploration; the game won't actively push you to explore these things, and it doesn't matter if you don't explore them.

However, after each exploration, you may discover something interesting or fun, which can satisfy players' desire for exploration.

Of course, all of this is ultimately for the sake of the game's main gameplay and core mechanics.

The game's story revolves around the assassin organization that hides in the shadows, representing the positive side, while the seemingly respectable Templars stand in the open.

The two sides have been fighting for thousands of years in the story, and the main storyline is a story from the Crusades period in history.

The game also has a subplot where all the historical stories players experience are presented using unique technology created by a futuristic tech company.

It looked incredibly real, like a live-action game, so real that it could gradually make you lose yourself in it.

The game begins with the previously released game trailer CG animation, but the story quickly shifts back to the near future.

A mysterious corporation kidnaps a bartender named Desmond and secretly studies him.

Desmond himself also seems to have some hidden identities that are unknown to the public.

This incredibly realistic feeling made Davis love the game even more.

I didn't realize that video games could have this kind of expressive ability; I had indeed underestimated them before.

All the game visuals he could see were incredibly realistic and meticulously crafted.

Of course, he wasn't a professional archaeologist; he was just someone who had a slight interest in history.

Therefore, he could hardly find any fault with it.

Once the game officially entered the main storyline, he couldn't wait to run around the entire game freely.

Eleventh-century Jerusalem, and the despairing mood of the people there, made him feel as if he had truly arrived in that era.

He swore this was the most realistic ancient scene he had ever seen.

In most of the movies and TV shows he has watched, the directors only show the audience the scenes, and these scenes are limited to the scope of the camera.

But video games are different.

Video games have truly created an entire world from scratch.

Then, he couldn't help but think of some other games that his colleagues had recommended to him.

His colleague said that the worlds of these games are quite beautiful and worth experiencing.

It seems I really have to give it a try; it would be such a shame to miss out on such a dreamlike world.

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In the market, Assassin's Creed represents a breakthrough in a new game genre.