The company is the present-day main antagonist of the franchise. Within the franchise, Abstergo Industries is a mega-corporation conglomerate with multiple branches, secretly run by modern Knights Templar. The games' real-world chronological setting begins in the year 2012, but most of the gameplay is in historical settings. The Assassin's Creed games primarily revolve around the rivalry between two ancient secret societies - the Assassins and the Knights Templar - and their indirect relation to an ancient species pre-dating humanity, referred to within the games as "those who came before", whose society, along with much of Earth's biosphere, was destroyed by a massive solar storm thousands of years before the games. The video game series has been expanded into a film, comics and novels all of which take place within the same continuity as the main video games series.
The series has been well received by critics, and has sold over 100 million copies as of September 2016, becoming Ubisoft's best selling franchise and one of the highest selling video game franchises of all time.
The handheld versions are developed by Gameloft and Gryptonite Studios, with additional development by Ubisoft Montreal. Many spin-off games have been made for Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, iOS, HP webOS, Android, Nokia Symbian and Windows Phone platforms. The main video game series consists of ten entries, developed by Ubisoft Montreal (single-player) and Ubisoft Annecy (multiplayer), released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, Microsoft Windows, and OS X platforms. The franchise began in 2007 with the release of Assassin's Creed. The series took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, while building upon concepts from the Prince of Persia series. The series features historical fiction mixed with real-world historical events and figures. It depicts a centuries-old struggle pitting the Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, against the Templars, who believe peace comes through control of humanity.
Assassin's Creed is a franchise centered on an action-adventure video game series developed by Ubisoft.
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