

As you watch the introductory movie, the first things you see on screen are the names of six different development studios, located everywhere from France to Montreal to Singapore. How do you make a huge videogame like this in just one year's time, you ask? Revelations answers that question in the first 30 seconds. Ubisoft has not been shy about announcing its plan for the Assassin's Creed series: It plans to release a new entry in the open-world action series every year.

But like the man himself, Assassin's Creed is growing old – and getting paunchy with age. So it's the exact same Ezio underneath the new grey hair texture. What's this assassin's secret to staying young? Well, his latest adventure Assassin's Creed: Revelations, available Tuesday for Xbox 360 (reviewed) and PlayStation 3, uses the same game engine as his first outing in 2009. At all of 52 years young, he still climbs up buildings and knifes people in the face just like he used to back when he was 17. Man, when I get old, I hope I age like Ezio Auditore.
