Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide

by Titan Books

Bursting with timelines, concept art, locations, history, character profiles, and technology, this is the ultimate guide to the milennia-long struggle between the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order.

The covert war between two secret organizations, the Templars order and the Brotherhood of the Assassins, has been raging for millennia. Packed with beautiful images and featuring the latest lore, " Assassin's The Essential Guide ," explores the major characters, technology, key historical settings, and epic story of this conflict.

Encompassing the entire franchise, Assassin's The Essential Guide is both an ideal introduction and the perfect guide to the Assassin's Creed universe, full with facts

-The Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar order

-The First Civilisation

-Technology and Weapons

-Historical Settings and Locations

-The Present day storyline

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Adventure

216 pages, hardcover

First published October 1, 2019

About the author

Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned British publishing company, established in 1981. It’s base at offices in London’s Bankside area,

The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics récentes and art titles.

Reviews

[Athina (booknotes_athina) · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can read the full review also on my blog https://booknotesbyathina.blogspot.com/

Assassin's Creed is one of my favourite series that I think it is underrated. Everyone associates Assassin's Creed with the video games and that is pretty natural but the books that came from them are very very good.
They are full of action, fast-paced and there is a very fascinating plot throughout the series. The covert war between two secret organizations, the Templars order and the Brotherhood of the Assassins, has been raging for millennia and we get to witness this story through the ages.
This edition contains everything you need to know about the Assassin's Creed universe.
I have only read the books and just watched my husband play the games and I find this book excellent. It is very well constructed with all the information and gorgeous photos from the games.

If you are a fan of the Assassin' Creed universe I highly recommend you to check this book out.

[C.J. Bunce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review originally published in BORG magazine.

Assassin’s Creed: The Essential Guide propels readers deep inside the expansive universe of the hit video game series

Review by C.J. Bunce

Gigantic and worthy of the expansive universe it chronicles, Assassin’s Creed: The Essential Guide is one of the better visual histories in the fantasy and science fiction genres. Titan Books has released a full-color expanded hardcover edition, updating a 2016 edition with plenty of new content, including new sections and the incorporation of recent storylines. In a word, it’s a comprehensive look at Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed for past gamers and new gamers, and readers of its many tie-in stories, or anyone wanting to know what the game, and tie-in film, novels, and comic books, are all about.

Read entire review here at BORG.

[Eadrinor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a tremendous amount of information on the series in all formats. I would have preferred there be a bit more emphasis on the characters and history and less on the Isu technology. There were entire pages devoted to things that only needed a small piece and some larger topics that needed more space.

[cosmic_truthseeker · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read in my opinion for fans of this franchise. It covers the entirety of the series up to and including Odyssey (it was released prior to Valhalla) and serves as an effective refresher on previous titles whilst also exploring information that may be less familiar.
It also succeeded in renewing my appreciation of the series's sci-fi elements, including the precursors and modern day storylines.
It also covers information for those who may not have been interested in reading the comics.
Glad I bought this. It might not be as essential for those who aren't already invested in the franchise, but fans will enjoy.

It does seem to have several typos throughout, unfortunately, which is slightly disappointing from such a big publisher.

[Sander · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not much to say, a good AC encyclopedia. Nice artwork and good descriptions. Cool for a fan of Assassin's Creed, like me 😎😂.

Not a fan? Then I would stick with just the official novels. Those novels are even something for people that never have played one of the games.

This book is pretty much based around the games, comics and the 2016 movie.

Overall a 7/10

[Abel Morando · Rating 5 out of 5]

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