The Assassin’s Creed franchise has always tried to do its best to juggle the modern and classic eras for each installment’s co-existing plots.
That having been said, let’s push through the obvious negative criticisms that Assassin’s Creed already has brought upon its film adaptation.
For a change, the film version of the games could help inform future installments of the video game franchise, rather than retread older stories with diminishing returns.
Quite simply, the strategy laid out by Michael Fassbender makes the film adaptation of the best-selling video game franchise all the more alienating to die hard fans that just want to see haystacks and extreme jumps from bell towers.