Early Prototype of Assassin's Creed

The earliest known gameplay prototype of the first Assassin's Creed game.
It was shown at GDC 2006 and PAX 2007.

[@vanitas3873]

Playable character here is model of Fishmonger, his concept art is in AC Encyclopedia.

[@Amikeur]

Surprising it dates from March 2006 when the first playable demo was presented in September 2006. Shows how fast Ubisoft Montreal worked on the game.

[@pipernigrum379]

You have no idea how many memories this background track unlocked in my mind

[@galaxydeathskrill5607]

Can't wait to hear this track when I go to Jerusalem, still stuck in Damascus without throwing knives in MB3

[@hmmmm9174]

The archaeologist of assassin's creed

[@Criductive]

playable character looks like a homeless man with a sword lol

[@ogbb2311]

homeless man which job before was selling french fries

[@Stealthful_]

That's practically almost every assassin before becoming an assassin.

[@ExecutionProducer]

1:34 vs 1:40 Possibility to choose between parkour down and parkour up was on the table since 2006 🥲

[@moseq]

You can still choose, just align your camera

[@JustMeRudy]

also that one move looks very much like a valut which is interesting to see considering its such an obscure mechanic in the first game. I wonder if the devs forgot it even existed since there was never any tutorial on the move

[@vstarev2715]

They worked so much on it Yet not used): Or improved in ac2 brotherhood rev

[@ArchiWorldRuS]

Assassin's Creed has come a long way but the most important decisions were made in the first years of the series. Making a PoP game into a start of the new game series is the first decision. Then AC 1 was sci-fi styled with history included. But in AC 2 it was the opposite already - history "based" game with elements of sci-fi. These 2 things is what made AC a successful series

[@esodn762]

What an interesting find, never even heard of this!

[@thatemocat]

Interesting how the hidden blade walk by was considered.

[@Deivid-bn6yw]

i miss when running through a crowd was a tripping hazard, AC1-Revelations were so unabashedly Assassins Creed, after Patrice left it seems his influence on the series slowly faded and the series became more and more simplistic. AC3 onwards the series identity shifted and shifted to appeal to a wider audience. Its like Asmongold said when AC valhalla was coming out, he doesn't want Assassins Creed to appeal to him, it shouldn't have had to strip itself of its uniqueness that so many fans fell in love with back in 2007.

[@alduinfr]

assassin's creed became a lot more simple ever since ac3 with the stealth and just the combat system in general. unity tried to change that and it sort of worked because nowadays the ac games have been more complicated than just pressing 2 buttons to kill an enemy. it became a hack and slash game.

[@averagejoeyo]

I don’t know how you find this but it’s some 10/10 footage

[@user-lx9xl9hb8y]

When an early prototype from 2006 has better performance and animation than most modern indie games

[@loneaquila]

Yeah, take a look at from soft games and their awful animations.😂

[@user-lx9xl9hb8y]

@@loneaquila I said indie games. FromSoft is not indie

[@loneaquila]

Ok, but my point still stands.

[@1chibanKasuga]

its still a triple aaa

[@kqquri]

reaching like crazy

[@user-fm9ww2wk1i]

Gentle push mechanics heals my soul

[@imamfn]

Can anyone please find some of the AC Victory footages? 🥺. It's really saddened me there's trace left out of it

[@blueberrygumball2034]

This looks magical and brings me back..

[@Amikeur]

You can see the running animation is very similar to Altair’s one

[@MRF-bq7kq]

How does bro find this stuff??? ☠️☠️

[@Mashfi23]

Here's a request for showing the westernmost side of the Vatican from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the part which can't be reached since the Basilica can't be scaled

[@user-Playbird30303]

Prince of Persia:Assassins Edit: Mom Im famous,thanks for 40 likes

[@WilliamHalverd]

That old Ubisoft will not come back, only God can save the company, Montreal is not the same anymore!

[@coralcuriosity2439]

so basically according to demo, the protagonist would had travelled a journey of a peasant to an assassin if i am right

[@marshallalexander8228]

No, It's just a placeholder

[@coralcuriosity2439]

@@marshallalexander8228 gotta agree on that

[@averagejoeyo]

I’m guessing that’s a blacksmith apron but it looks like he’s just got out of his pizza shift

[@amadeus2938]

They started to cook

[@pliplakplouktiktak8010]

you're an archeologist !

[@JeViensDuTexas]

Man that soundtrack..

[@BladeRock1996]

Me recuerda mucho a Prince of Persia. Genial.

[@quantusmillenius718]

incredible

[@pavlerexviashvili1886]

2👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@hanifbudi517]

I'm sure you must be a programmer at Ubisoft in making this assassin game project

[@lephantomchickn3676]

I wonder who the guy with the apron is/was

[@chilling5858]

How did you find these?

[@FoxLoverCZ]

Kde jsi to vzal😅 to jsi zaměstnanec ubisoftu? 😅

[@danilostanco1709]

Early prototype and it feels better than Origins, Valhalla etc

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

Better than Origin hahaha

[@henry24781]

AC2?

[@sheepofjesuschrist]

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