Assassin's Creed®

The setting is 1191 AD.

The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.

You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

• Be an Assassin
Master the skills, tactics and weapons of history's deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy and fight your way to escape.

• Experience exclusive PC content
Four PC-exclusive investigation missions make the game an even better experience than its console predecessors, including the Rooftop Race Challenge, a race to a specified location and the Archer Stealth Assassination Challenge, where the player must assassinate all archers in a certain zone to help out fellow Assassins.

• Realistic and responsive environments
Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.

• Action with a new dimension-total freedom
Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.

• Relive the epic times of the Crusades
Assassin's Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.

• Intense action rooted in reality
Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.

• Next-gen gameplay
The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.

• OS:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system;
Minimum: Windows XP (32-bit).
Recommended: Windows 7 (64-bit).

• CPU:
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz.
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz / AMD Phenom X3 2.1 GHz.

• RAM:
Minimum: 1 GB RAM (XP) / 2 GB RAM (Vista/7).
Recommended: 2 GB RAM.

• Graphics:
Minimum: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 / ATI Radeon X1300 with 256 MB VRAM.
Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD 3800 with 512 MB VRAM.

• DirectX:
Version: 9.0c.

• Network:
Broadband Internet connection.

• Storage:
Minimum: 8 GB available space.
Recommended: 8 GB available space.

• Sound:
DirectX® Compatible sound card.