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When I signed up for this course, I knew for a fact that we would have to play one of the Assassin’s Creed games. So, at first, I was going to buy one of the newer ones but then my friend let me borrow one of his games because I did not want to spend too much money on this game. The Assassin’s Creed game I chose was Assassin’s Creed Unity and I cannot believe how hard these games are. I have never played any Assassin’s Creed game before this, and it is because I am more of a shooter and sports video game type of guy. But for the past 3 weeks I have been trying to get to at least 20% done with the game but I suck, and I’m still stuck on the one where you have to kill the dude in Notre Dame because I keep getting back stabbed.
For people who do not know, Assassin’s Creed is a video game franchise and it’s an open world type of game with missions and it takes place during historical time periods. So, for example, Assassin’s Creed Unity takes place during the French Revolution. In other words, this is a historical fiction type of video game. The story is basically about a fictional guy named Arno Dorian and his father was an Assassin and he grows up, gets sent to jail for a crime that he was blamed for and meets a member of the Creed in jail and Arno joins the creed from there.
During class we read many articles on Assassin’s Creed and most of them were about whether it was ok for this game to be taught in the classrooms. Most of the articles make very similar points about how this game is fictional yet some of the stuff can be historically accurate. Now I bet for the entire semester in this class every video game we play and read about will make the same point about how the game is fictional, yet we still can use it to teach history. With Assassin’s Creed Unity and other Assassin’s Creed games being well more violent, I would not use this to teach kids of youth but maybe more towards high school though.
Now with all the rage I had trying to play this game for real without looking on YouTube for help, it really requires a lot more strategy than I would need to process in my hopefully future field of expertise in sports management. Now while playing the game, I was strategizing how I wanted to kill this dude I had to kill but I did not think about how much killing I would need to do to complete the mission. I was thinking long term rather than short term to do this mission I was more focus on stealth and escape rather than being kill hungry and hope I do not die. Now in sports you have to make moves to make your team better but when you make moves you have to know if you’re going to be a buyer or a seller when it comes to trades. Buyers are teams that want to add pieces to their team to make them better and sellers are teams who want to get assets for their future. That’s my area of strategic expertise and not with assassinating people because my interests do not lean that way to make me think the way the game wants you to think to succeed in the game.
In my own opinion the French Revolution was basically a time period where people were sick of social class and wanted to be equal with society and not have a social class system anymore. Obviously, there were more problems in France besides that but to sum it up it was just that people wanted to have the country of France be the way they want it to be. Now I am no historian but in high school when I had to learn what the Revolution was about, I remembered there was a time when revolutionaries stormed a prison and in the game that actually happened so that was accurate but overall, I thought that the game is fun to those who are more into history but if you are not in depth into history this game probably not for.
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