Assassin's Creed is a sandbox-style action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide in November 2007 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles.[1] Alongside the standard retail version, a limited collector's edition was released in North America for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The European limited edition contains the game and a 2-inch (51 mm) Altaïr figure in addition to an art book and a DVD containing several short films. The North American PC version was released on April 8, 2008.
A prequel for this game, titled Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles and developed by Gameloft,[10] was released on February 5, 2008 for the Nintendo DS.[11] It was also ported to the Symbian Mobile. A sequel was confirmed by Ubisoft, tentatively to be released in the fourth quarter of 2009.[12] A new Assassin's Creed PSP game has been announced by Ubisoft with no set release date as of yet.[13]A prequel has also been announced for the iPhone OS