There have been so many Assassin’s Creed games, and so many games inspired by Assassin’s Creed, that it’s easy to forget that Assassin’s Creed used to be Weird. Or Weird for a game of its scale, anyway. I remember when Ubisoft revealed it, with an all-timer of an trailer showing Altaïr pouncing on some upstart Templars. And then, that flicker of code over masonry, that first hint that the medieval Crusades setting is a predatory digital facade.