Assassin's Creed: Second Age

Assassin's Creed: Second Age is the main installment in the Assassin's Creed series developed by Ubisoft. The game was released worldwide on November 23rd, 2024 for the PS5, Xbox Series X & S, Switch, PC & the Sony PlayStation Portable 2. In the game, the player is in control of Norman Jayden, as he accesses the memories of several of his DNA ancestors between 72 AD to 1969, from Bellator Solus in 72 AD Rome to Pvt. Kendrick Callaway in the Vietnam War, in order to prevent the 2025 Apocalypse, predicted by the Romans. Aside from missions in the past, the player can embark in missions in the future, in locations such as Tokyo, Washington D.C, Paris, The Mojave Desert, and Abestrgo Industries's now abandoned office in Rome from the 1st game & the Ezio Trilogy.

The game plays very differently. Mission's in the past have an open-world action-adventure stealth gameplay from the older games (AC1 - Revelations), but the Future levels have dropped the open-world action-adventure stealth in favor of a third-person shooter. Nevertheless, the game received mixed reviews between critics, but was supported by fans as a new direction to the franchise. Many compared it to The Saboteur, a 2009 game developed by Pandemic Studios & published by Electronic Arts.

Assassin's Creed: Second Age, alongside XCOM: Strategic Defense Force, Need for Speed: Future Apocalypse, the successful release of the PlayStation Portable 2 & Killing Floor 3 helped bounce the market off the Second Video Game Crash by their sales numbers. Assassin's Creed Second Age was the 3rd best selling game of 2024.

Chapter 1: Rome

 * Time Period: 72 AD - 79 AD
 * Location: Roman Empire
 * Assassins: Bellator Solus (Troy Baker)
 * Templars:
 * Nero - The fifth emperor of Roman Empire and a leader of the Order of the Ancients in Italy.
 * Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - A Roman general best known as the commander who defeated the rebellion of Boudica.
 * Servius Galba - A Roman emperor who ruled from emperor Nero's suicide until 69 AD.

Chapter 2: Ancient China

 * Time Period: 755 - 761
 * Location: Western and Central China
 * Assassin: Li E (Nolan North)
 * Templars:
 * An Lushan - A Sogdian–Göktürk jiedushi of the Tang dynasty who unleashed a devastating civil war during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. He is the leader of Yeluohe, a branch of the Order of the Ancients in China. His deep-seated rivalry with Yang Guozhong culminated in a violent schism in 754 and the formation of Lushan's splinter group, the Yeluohe.
 * Yang Guozhong - A chancellor late in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong and a leader of the Golden Turtles, Chinese branch of the Order of the Ancients.
 * Shi Siming - A Turkic general and childhood friend of An Lushan. After An Lushan was assassinated by Li E, he become the leader of Yeluohe.

Chapter 3: Spanish Inquistion

 * Time Period: 1492 - 1498
 * Location: Spain
 * Assassin: Aguilar de Nerha (Antonio Banderas)
 * Templars:
 * Tomás de Torquemada - A Spanish Dominican friar, the first Inquisitor General of Spain, confessor to Queen Isabella I of Castile and the Grand Master of the Spanish Rite of the Templar Order.

Chapter 4: Ancient Japan

 * Time Period: 1570 - 1600
 * Location: Japan
 * Assassin: Hattori Hanzō (Tom Kane)
 * Templars:
 * Alessandro Valignano - An Italian Jesuit missionary, who helped supervise the introduction of Catholicism in the Far East, most specifically in Japan.
 * Mochizuki Chiyome - A noblewoman who was credited with creating an all-female group of ninja, named kunoichi, for her uncle-in-law, Takeda Shingen.
 * Uesugi Kenshin - A daimyō ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan.

Chapter 5: Siam

 * Time Period: 1766 - 1776
 * Location: Siam and Burma
 * Assassin: Prame (Noam Jenkins)
 * Templars:
 * Hsinbyushin -The king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1763 to 1776. He was the leader of the Burmese Rite of the Templar Order.
 * Ne Myo Thihapate - A general in the Royal Burmese Army of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), as well as Hsinbyushin's second-in-command
 * Maha Nawrahta: The joint commander-in-chief of the Royal Burmese Army from 1765 to 1767

Chapter 6: Southren China

 * Time Period: 1839 - 1842
 * Location: Southern China
 * Assassin: Lin Bao (Anna Akana)
 * Templars:
 * Dr. William Jardine - A Scottish physician and merchant who co-founded the Hong Kong based conglomerate Jardine, Matheson and Company, as well as a Master Templar of the British Rite of the Templar Order.
 * Humphrey Fleming Senhouse - A British Royal Navy officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, and First Anglo-Chinese War.

Chapter 7: Northern France

 * Time Period: 1940 - 1944
 * Location: Northern France
 * Assassin: Lynee Dupan (Zoie Palmer)
 * Templars:
 * Adolf Hitler - Leader of the 3rd Reich from 1939 to 1945.
 * Joseph Goebbels - Minister of Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
 * Philippe Pétain - Leader of Vichy France

Chapter 8: 'Nam

 * Time Period: 1969 - 1971
 * Location: Northern Vietnam
 * Assassin: Pvt. Kendrick Callaway (Steve Blum)
 * Templars:
 * Lyndon B. Johnson - U.S President from 1963 to 1969
 * Ho Chi Minh - Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman

Chapter 1.1: Tokyo

 * Time Period: June 11th - 15th, 2025
 * Location: Shibuya, Minato & Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
 * Assassins: Norman Jayden (Leon Ockenden) & Carter Blake (Mike Powers)
 * Templars:
 * Shaun Hastings - Historian who helped Desmond Miles in his adventures back in 2012, while exploring his memories of Altair, Ezio & Connor