Assassin’s Creed Trailers Been Dope: A Retrospective

The world was just blessed with the debut trailer for Assassins’ Creed: Valhalla, and it was a thing of beauty, anticipated by all the gamers on staff at BNP. Ubisoft has been hitting us with these well-crafted cinematic trailers for Assassin’s Creed since 2007. There are so few properties out today whose heralding gets as much fanfare as the game itself, but this is one of those properties. Over the years, the trailers grew in length and as the franchise became a staple for Ubisoft, so did the marketing and production budget. The trailers have received every type of treatment the medium could provide. There are outsourced animated production house trailers, live-action, game engine footage, mixed media, and straight-up gameplay. If you put all the trailers back to back, it’s over an hour of video. I went through all of it to highlight some of the greatest trailers in the (very) long history of Assassin’s Creed. [FYI: there are so many different types of trailers in the AC catalog. My personal favorites are the ones that combine the CG cinematics with some haunting song layered over it. It’s my jam. But let’s look at a few of the dopest.] Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – E3 Trailer – (2011) This one goes hard in the paint y’all. I’m biased though, it’s kind of my favorite trailer. It’s told out of time, which is super on-brand for Assassin’s Creed. It is the last game in the series that follows the exploits of Ezio Auditore Di Firenza (Pinkett-Smith lol) and it is brilliant.

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