Assassin's Creed is a third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide in November 2007 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles,[1] and April 2008 for Windows and a ported version in Q2 2009 for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

The story takes place c. September 2012, following Desmond Miles, a bartender kidnapped by a laboratory conducting research into genetic memory. By the sessions conducted on Miles, the player learns he is a descendant of Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad, a member of the "Assassin Clan" in 1191, who were on a mission to obtain a "Piece of Eden", an artifact capable of creating illusions, from the Knights Templar. As the story develops, it is learned that the laboratory management were a modern version of the Knights Templar, and that they knew about Miles' ancestry. When their true objective is revealed, the player learns that they were looking for the location of a Piece of Eden, which they believed to be hidden in Miles' memory.