10 Influential Video Games That Changed the Industry Forever
Assassin’s Creed
When Assassin’s Creed first stepped out onto the modern gaming scene in 2007, people could already tell it was going to go places. Placing players into the role of a master assassin capable of scaling and traversing medieval city rooftops with ease, it crafted a world and narrative one couldn’t help but get sucked into and explore to their heart’s content. It has since spawned countless sequels and spinoffs across multiple consoles.
On a wider scale though, it kicked off its own style of open world games that have been a framework for other similar types of games, especially within Ubisoft themselves. Things we take for granted as a norm today, like viewpoints and watch towers that open up points of interest around the map, an open world with parkour-esque traversal and climbing options, and real world settings recreated for use as a game world are all elements that other series have replicated for their own use. Open world games have only improved and innovated upon the genre since these elements were introduced on a wider scale.
