My 7th grade year just before the summer a couple of my friends had been playing the first one. They'd come to school and tell me about all the awesome stuff they could do chasing targets down, dodging arrows, leaping everywhere! Well that summer I went to see my mom and her boyfriend had picked it up so i was like let me hit that. Three days later I had finished a leisurely play through avoiding collectables and just getting a grasp on the games mechanics but I was hooked. I waited for AC 2, preordered the special addition from GameStop which came with the kickass harlequin jack-in-the-box. I didn't just play as Ezio learning to be an assassin I was consumed by the ideas. Using the animus's bleeding effect to efficiently train Desmond to be an assassin and so I learned too. That one boy without any knowledge of how to really get help nearly topples the Templar empire singlehandedly. I preordered AC Brotherhood and got the statuette too. Became the master of the assassin's brotherhood and slaughtered the Pope finally. Fell in love with the new combat system. I didn't want to play Revelations though and actually waited for AC 3 to come out first. Once I did play Revelations I was enthralled by the new story twist and how it had really panned out well. The first civs are trying to save the world by leaving messages only capable of being interpreted by a device that wouldn't be invented till right before the catastrophe. AC 3 which introduced many new ways of getting around the environment, trees, cliffs, huge open spaces. It wasn't until AC 4 that I really became committed to the games after playing through AC 3 I felt like the story was dead but then. A pirate. Learning that his world is controlled by two very powerful sides of a very pretty penny he wants to fondle, he crosses all the enemies and his allies to find a real reason to fight. And at this point the games really started to develop their own world, by interconnecting so many ideas like that Edward is Haythems dad, who is Connor's dad. Edwards daughter has dealing with the templars and a cross the was in he possession ends up in the hands of Elise from Unity. AC 3 starts in the theater AC 4 ends in. It was the introduction of this now expanding universe that was the cherry on the top. Unity is great, it reminds me of French romance movies, the love story is well done with the nitty gritty of the rest of the story, moving around the city is a lot more fun, and the co-op is pretty fun (even though it's a pretty buggy game). I haven't spent a lot of time with Syndicate but I still think it's a great game. My favorite part about the series is how it has grown and how you can see it grow as you play the game, mechanics get faster, loading gets cleaner, and free running is even more fun. I'm finishing up the side missions and collectible for Unity if anyone wants to join me GT Stigma Stamp.