David Hilton, Oxcgn's resident historian and Assassin's Creed fan, writes his latest article on the new Assassin's Creed: Renaissance novel and sees if it works in with the games story, specifically the new DLC, The Battle Of Forli.

Which is based on actual events of the time. Ubisoft have worked history into their series quite well, and David has been able to accurately predict many aspects of the game in the past.

Come and check out his latest item,you'll be glad yoou did.

"It will be a thing of beauty, the new Templar world- governed by Reason and Order..." Rodrigo Borgia

Assassin's Creed 2 was one of the top games of 2009, and our Game Of The Year, taking all that was good about the first game and fixing almost everything that was lacking.

Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is the novelisation of the game written by Oliver Bowden and while it is written well enough and fulfills the general criteria of re-creating the plot of the game in novel form, I can't help but be disappointed that it doesn't bring much new to the Templar versus Assassin story.

Indeed I would rather that it had been a prequel novel about one of the Assassins in statue form in the villa's Assassins room, more back-story involving Ezio's Assassin father Giovanni shown in the short but exciting Lineage films, a back-story on Subject 16's experiences, or even more about Desmond's first experiences with the Animus at Abstergo, before Altair, where he explores the genetic memories of a Roman Assassin ancestor Aquilus, son of Lucus (as briefly seen in the French graphic novel: Assassin's Creed: Desmond).

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