The game that's least like the Assassin's Creed concept turns out to be the best use of the concept yet. Too little too late, or about damned time? Or a bit of both? Here's my verdict. I poured some time in the Xbox 360 (hissssss) edition late last year, and I've now spent the last week or so with the PC one. They chose Ptolemy, knowing that Cleopatra was a much more cunning ruler and a better strategist than her younger brother, who was more interested in the superficiality of power and was easily swayed by them.Īfter he discovered their existence, the Medjay Bayek began a quest to thwart their plans for domination and as a result later founded the Hidden Ones, an organization which would eventually fight against the next iteration of the Order of the Ancients (as the Assassin Brotherhood) in the following millennia, the Templar Order.Ubisoft's third Assassin's Creed game arrived on PC on Friday - some four months later than the console version. The Order quickly became the true power behind the throne and used all their powers to influence, through Ptolemy, the organization of Egyptian society and to push forward their own plans for the realm.ĭiscovering that the Queen was not as easy to handle as her brother, the Order instigated the expulsion of Cleopatra from Egypt in 48 BCE.

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