Assassin’s Creed

Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Ubisoft Montreal's revolutionary historical open-world parkour action-adventure masterpiece across Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, released in November 2007 on the pioneering Anvil Engine, holding an 82% GameRankings and selling over 8.4 million copies, launching Ubisoft's flagship multi-billion-dollar franchise, starring bartender Desmond Miles captured by Abstergo Industries and strapped into the Animus to relive the genetic memories of his 12th-century Syrian ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade in 1191 AD, assassinating 9 Templar conspirators across the Holy Land (Jerusalem, Damascus, Acre, Masyaf), single-handedly inventing systemic 3D architectural parkour climbing (scaling any historical building ledge with contextual hands/feet grip), the "Puppeteer" controller scheme, the iconic spring-loaded Hidden Blade, Social Stealth (blending into scholar monks), the "Leap of Faith" from synchronization viewpoints, and Jesper Kyd's atmospheric Middle Eastern and Gregorian choral soundtrack.