Ubisoft has copied a lot from Hitman- more than you think.
Here, you will find strong similarities of Assassin’s Creed with every Hitman game.
Go through this article, your mind will be blown if you have played Assassin’s Creed as well.
For example, how many of you noticed that both 47 and Altair are raised by their father/father figure, and both are used to assassinate and kill off all their rivals/enemies so that their father figure can go for world domination… Later both father figures are killed by Hitman and Altair at the end of the game.
Similarly, all the games have eerie similarities.
As someone who has played all Assassin’s Creed games and all Hitman games, I see how Ubisoft taking heavy inspiration from the Hitman story clearly makes 100 percent sense.
Hell, Ubisoft decided to do a soft reboot and go back to the Origins exactly one year after Hitman series did that.
Go through the article- every single Hitman game has something borrowed from it by Assassin’s Creed - pretty shocking actually.
Having played Hitman for nearly 20 years now, and having played Assassin’s Creed almost up to the end of Odyssey with no plans to stop, I can say that the similarities between Hitman and Assassin’s Creed, while standing out pretty clearly, are mostly superficial and relatively few in number. While the first Assassin’s Creed game is the most obvious, with the greater focus on stealth, information gathering, and carefully eliminating your target, and a few things here and there in the sequel games that are reminiscent of Hitman, such as character backstories and musical themes, I would say that the two series encompass significantly different styles and appeal to different tastes.
Hitman is ultimately a spy thriller/noir drama with a little bit of science fiction thrown in for spice. Assassin’s Creed, by contrast, is an action/adventure sci-fi epic with some stealth mechanics thrown in for good measure. Think of Assassin’s Creed as sort of like Indiana Jones meets Batman, while Hitman is more James Bond meets Leon, The Professional. Similarities between the two certainly exist, but I don’t think that’s a sign that Ubisoft copied Hitman, at least not with Assassin’s Creed. You want to look at Splinter Cell, you might have something there.
As it is, there’s only so many ideas that can be fit into the story-telling medium, and only so many game mechanics that can be utilized with current technology, so it is understandable how two different games by two different companies could have a lot of similarities without either of them so much as looking at each other.
I read it. The similarities are superficial. The story beats that the article is making comparisons to are not uncommon and can be found outside these games and in similar orders. For example, I pointed out once in another thread on this forum that the WoA trilogy alone had many similarities with the story of Gundam Wing. The similarities mentioned in the article, while interesting and notable, are familiar enough across the fiction genre that it would be more surprising if such long-running series didn’t have closer alignments.
No I am still fully prepared to mock it but all of my material was more subtle so there is no point now that the OP is probably aware that we all think it is stupid and baseless.
You ever notice that in the first Assassin’s Creed, anytime Altair falls in the water he dies instantly, and anytime an NPC falls in water in a Hitman game they die instantly? Coincidence? I think not!
The article clearly said that the idea of Providence was not copied from the idea of Templars or vice versa. Regarding the other similarities, it might be “inspired”. Whether that “inspiration” is conscious or subconscious, that is debatable.
Yeah, but the similarities are all “superficial”. No one is denying that. But is it also a coincidence that these “superficial similarities” take place chronologically… They occur right from the first games…
Especially when Hitman and AC are the only popular games that revolve around assassins. Then, not to mention, both games did soft reboots trilogy at the same time.
But, it is okay. I will try to convince myself it is all a coincidence. Won’t be easy though.
The article also got it wrong assigning the ICA as the equivalent of the Assassins Brotherhood in Hitman, when clearly Grey’s militia was the closer analog to that group.
Yes, maybe to some extent, the Militia is more similar to the Assassins.
But in terms of how they work, they totally differ. The Assassins in Assassin’s Creed maintain secrecy and more importantly, don’t kill innocents, it is their first code. Although Grey himself is moral to a certain extent, his followers (except a few like Penelope Grave) are mass murders who don’t care about casualties. Their agenda was just to take down the Providence, not to liberate humanity.
Lucas Grey, although he was not shown to be an immoral character, did whatever he did for revenge, not because he wanted to liberate the human race from the grip of Providence.
That’s exactly how the Assassins have become several times throughout the series, Unity being a prime example. They aren’t really trying to save humanity anymore than the Templars are trying to conquer it. At this point, both are just trying to wipe the other out because it’s personal and it’s all they know how to do anymore.
ICA might be secret killers, but that’s all they have in common with the Assassins. The militia’s members, being thieves and killers and such, are brought together for the common cause of rolling the powers that be, just like the Assassins. Both also have killed civilians when necessary, and have no problem killing bodyguards just doing their jobs, either.
ICA although primarily works for money, have saved the world multiple times. So, this makes two things similar to the Assassin Brotherhood - 1. secretive and 2. saved the world numerous times.
Budapest (Hitman: Contracts and Codename 47)– 47 eliminates Frantz Fuchs, preventing a deadly chemical bomb attack in a hotel.
Silent Assassin (2002) – Sergei Zavorotko is eliminated, preventing a nuclear warhead from falling into the wrong hands.
Blood Money (2006) – 47 dismantles Alexander Leland Cayne’s plan to use cloned assassins for world domination.
Sapienza (Hitman 2016) – 47 destroys a DNA-targeting bioweapon and eliminates its creators, stopping a potential global disasters.
But, then like the Assassins, ICA has also had corrupt and selfish people like Benjamin Travis, who only wanted power. Then there are the six or seven nuns, who don’t care about innocents or civilian casualties.
So I think both the ICA and the Militia has somethings in common to the Assassin Brotherhood. Maybe 50 percent of both.
Yeah, ICA have saved the world many times, but that’s on a case-by-case basis, and they always have something to gain for themselves aside from that. Being heroes is not their intention. In fact, it’s pretty much part of their mission statement to not be. They’re just a gun; it’s up to the paying customer to decide who to aim and fire at. If anything, they’re more equivalent to Erudito than the Assassins, minus the payment part.
