Assassin’s Creed, Capital & The Politics in Gaming

Leo Cookman
6 min readApr 2, 2021

I played Assassin’s Creed II at a friends house not long after it came out and I loved it. I bought it, played it to death and subsequently played every AC game up until Origins which was when I jumped ship on the franchise. The reason for that being, since the needless ‘Reboot’ in Origins, they are no longer related to the original games in terms of purpose, gameplay or style. But the turning of a…

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Leo Cookman

Peripatetic Writer. “Time’s Lie” out now from Zero Books.