• Question: is there any science behind the creation of assassins creed the game?

    Asked by hannah4edsheeran to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      So as far as I’m aware (I’ve never played it) Assassins creed involves going back in time and putting your mind in someone else’s so that you experience what they saw… Please correct me if I’m wrong!

      Both of those things, time travel and swapping consciousness, are pretty far fetched and break all the things that we currently understand about time and consciousness, so I would say that it’s not really possible.

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      The Animus in AC is certainly not something that we can do in the real world. Scientists can just about reconstruct our thoughts into pictures and words, but this isn’t very good at all! Maybe we’ll get better, but I don’t think you’d ever be able to live in a completely virtual world.

      But video games do have a kind of science to them, because they have to include some real world physics, or else you wouldn’t be able to control your character. In the game, you have to have gravity so Altair or Ezio doesn’t float off into space, and detection is based on lines of sight – the baddies can’t see you through a wall. Also, assassinations are always fairly realistic – people don’t die immediately because you shoot them in the foot! But I don’t know how unbelievably strong the assassins would have to be to be able to climb buildings and pull themselves up on ledges like that!

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      I don’t know anything about that game. Sorry.

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