OXCGN's resident historian takes a look at 3 of the major Templar games hitting our shelves in 2011.

As always, David's in-depth details ad interest and excitement to this particular sub-genre within gaming. ANyone that follows Assassin's Creed will certainly have heard or read some of David's great work, and correct predictions with regards to the AC franchise.

Slip over now and check out 3 games coming your way, great screens, vids and information abounds.

Look into the legends of the Templars and you find an organization shrouded in tales of secrecy and contradiction.

It started as a small group of military monks emerging from the First Crusade, pledging poverty, chastity, and obedience, created to protect pilgrims making their way to the Holy Land…or to dig for ancient secrets under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

First they had the support of the Pope, then they lost it.

Around 1129 they were given sanction to answer only to the Pope and be granted absolution of their sins for their service against the infidel. Then after the famous Friday the 13th arrests in France in October 1307, the French-influenced Pope betrayed them.

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