https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne3nmb/assassins-creed-origins-review > I love Assassin's Creed. From the moment Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad—the original game's hero—uttered "nothing is true, everything is permitted," I was hooked. As a fan of weird conspiracy theories and beat writer William S. Burroughs, the original Assassin's Creed felt as if the developers had made the game just for me. > But my love has faltered over the years. Assassin's Creed: Unity—set in Paris during the French Revolution—was a beautiful mess, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate—set in London at the turn of the 19th century—was functional but boring, and Michael Fassbender's Assassin's Creed movie was the dullest, most expensive commercial ever made. The series became a victim of its own success. Each entry made tens of millions of dollars and publisher Ubisoft released a new one every year. Like Call of Duty, this led to a string of interchangeable, boring, and repetitive sequels.