• This is page 2 if the complete Assassin's Creed Walkthrough featuring Assassins Creed Other Abilities, Sub-Missions, and Optional Missions.

  • Game Background

    In Assassin's Creed you take the role of Altair, 12th century secret assassin and member of the Hashshashin brotherhood. Your mission is to assassinate nine different public figures active in the Crusades. The figures are located in Palestine, in four different main cities: Jerusalem, Acre, Damacus and Masyaf. The game's Crusade-era cities are extremely detailed, full of citizens that go about their daily lives, exquisite cityscapes, and detailed buildings.

  • Game Abilities

    You are Altaire, an expert assassin, and you have his various abilities at your disposal: sword fighting, scaling buildings, silently killing enemies with a hidden knife, and pickpocketing. As you progress through the game you will gain even more abilities, and must use them all to complete your missions.

  • Other Abilities

    Altair has several abilities which aren't often used in combat but can be used to effectively dispatch enemies in other ways.

  • Throwing Knives

    1. Throwing Knives provide a long range, instant kill solution for Altair.
    2. Equip your short blade, target an enemy guard or soldier with LT and then press the X button.
    3. This is most useful for eliminating guards who have spotted you on the rooftops.
    4. You can also effectively assassinate Informant targets from the rooftops with this technique.

  • Fists

    1. Your fists are only really useful in Interrogation missions. They work exactly the same as any other weapon, except you cannot use your Counter-Attack or Combo Kill.
    2. Hold down RT to block and quickly let go and press X to attack. Repeat.

  • Assassin's Blade

    1. Your Assassin's Blade has many uses out of combat. Walk up to a guard or target and press X to silently assassinate him.
    2. Run at the target and you will perform a High Profile assassination. You will use this to dispatch most of your main targets in the game.

  • Sub-Missions

    Each Assassin's Creed mission follows a very distinct formula. You talk to your order's master about the mission ahead, you ride to the city in which your target will be found, talk to a fellow assassin, and gather information through various Sub-Missions before approaching the target himself.

  • Pick Pocketing

    1. The pick pocketing icon appears on your map as a hand reaching for a package. Your targets will always be two or three men talking about their own mission to deliver a map or instructions.
    2. Approach at a distance and target one of the men using the RT.
    3. After the short conversation you will automatically lock onto the person carrying the goods.
    4. Follow him at a distance, using your blend ability by pressing the A button if necessary. The best time to draw near the target is shortly after he has stopped and looked around.
    5. Approach him with caution, and once your HUD has changed to show "pickpocket" as a possible action, press and hold the B button to reach out for the information he is carrying.
    6. This is contained in a small pouch on the back of the target's belt.
    7. When the pouch and your hand come into contact, Altair will turn around and the game will auto-save.
    8. This is simply a matter of practice! It may be hard at first, but later becomes a quick and easy way to gather information.

  • Interrogation

    1. The interrogation icon appears on your map as a fist. Your target will usually be a preacher or herald, someone proclaiming their message, or that of their master.
    2. Target the preacher to initiate his speech. The target will usually let out a spiel about your main assassination target before walking away.
    3. Follow him, as obviously as you like, and start to punch him once you are in a secluded area. He will fight back, though early in the game they are a pushover.
    4. You will have to dodge or fight any other Thug characters in the area - soldiers will stand and watch, but not attack.
    5. Altair will question the target once they have been sufficiently beaten and given in.
    6. They will tell you their secrets before Altair dispatches them, often wording his regret of the process.

  • Informant

    1. The informer icon appears on your map as a stick figure. This character is usually a fellow assassin dressed in similar clothes to Altair.
    2. He will ask you to do him a favor in return for information. Generally, he will ask you to assassinate between one to four targets - usually guards who are searching for him.
    3. Occasionally he will ask you to collect a bunch of flags, in the form of a rooftop race. Either case is a simple test of your stealth or movement skills.
    4. The assassinations are the trickiest missions as you will have to restart if you are seen. Either stay stealthy on the ground level, assassinate the targets in low profile and walk away, or stick to the rooftops and use your throwing knives at a distance before hastily making off in the opposite direction.
    5. Be careful, since the mission can still be failed even after all the targets are eliminated - you need to make it back to the informer without being chased by any guards.
    6. The flag races are reasonably easy. You have plenty of time, so move carefully and follow the icons around your map.
    7. They will always follow a loop formation, so if you miss one, make sure to return to get it.
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  • Eavesdropping

    1. The eavesdropping icon appears on your map as a person speaking. This is by far the easiest sub-mission.
    2. Simply find your target, sit on a nearby bench and target them using the LT.
    3. A short conversation will follow, after which you can simply stand up and move away.

  • Optional Missions

    1. There are a few optional missions you can undertake in the world of Assassin's Creed.
    2. These don't always net you rewards, but will prompt an auto-save and can work to improving your maximum health.
    3. TIP: For every 15 missions you complete (optional or sub-missions) your health will increase by one bar.

  • Save Citizens

    1. Occasionally you will run across a citizen in trouble. This will usually be a woman or a monk/scholar type.
    2. Kill the harassing guards, and you will be rewarded in one of two ways: vigilantes, who will hamper the progress of any guards in the area, or a roving group of scholars to help you sneak around.

  • View Points

    1. View Points are tall buildings you must scale in order to reveal the location of Sub-Missions.
    2. You can tell which they are by looking for an eagle circling them.
    3. Often climbing one will reveal most of the others.
    4. Climb to the top of the minaret, perch yourself on the small ledge and press the Y button to synchronize and update your map.
    5. Do a leap of faith off the ledge into the bale of hay which will be conveniently waiting for you at the bottom.
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  • Flags

    1. There are some hundreds flags in each city, as well as many within the Kingdom.
    2. NOTE: Collecting all of them in any given area will unlock an achievement in the Xbox 360 version, but nothing else in the others. It's up to you, really.

  • Templars

    1. Templars are the enemy of your order. They are guards, often standing in hard to find places, wearing their distinctive white robes with a red cross at the center.
    2. They are generally the hardest enemies in the game to kill.
    3. Again, they unlock an achievement in the Xbox 360 version, but nothing in the others.

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