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Assassin’s Creed III - The First Hour

Assassin’s Creed
III - The First Hour

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ecember 21st 2012. The date given by the
First Civilisation, or Those Who Came Before,
with one very bleak warning for mankind –
this is the day the world will end. Hoping to prevent
a solar flare from bringing a cataclysmic change
to Earth and turn mankind extinct, the task of
saving the world handed to 21st Century assassin
Desmond Miles is a tall order.
How he aims to do this lies within his ancestry.
Following his own bloodline back through the
ages, we’ve seen Desmond relive the lives of Altaïr
and Ezio, two master assassins of their respective
ages. He achieves this through the Animus, the
franchise’s staple gadget. After getting to grips with
the synchronisation process, Desmond embodies
his English noble ancestor, Haytham Kenway, as
he enters London’s sublime and affluent Theatre
Royal to take in an evening of high culture [