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A review by wandrew
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade by Oliver Bowden, Andrew Holmes
2.0
Was very interested to read this, as the original novelisation was cancelled after the Aga Khan expressed displeasure at the depiction of his Ismaili order:
http://darkush.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/why-even-care.html
Still tempted to get Barnes' collection of short stories, which I think includes a rewritten version of his Invisible Imam.
For a videogame adaptation, it started out really well. The retelling of the first game was surprisingly well-written, which made the rest of the novel, from the novelisation of the PSP game onwards, that much more disappointing. Bizarrely, this was released after Revelations (the game) came out, and yet the depiction of the events of an old Altair often contradicts the story in the game. I can only imagine he wrote his novel before the game's story was firmed up, but it then begs the question: why bother with the novel?
http://darkush.blogspot.com.au/2007/10/why-even-care.html
Still tempted to get Barnes' collection of short stories, which I think includes a rewritten version of his Invisible Imam.
For a videogame adaptation, it started out really well. The retelling of the first game was surprisingly well-written, which made the rest of the novel, from the novelisation of the PSP game onwards, that much more disappointing. Bizarrely, this was released after Revelations (the game) came out, and yet the depiction of the events of an old Altair often contradicts the story in the game. I can only imagine he wrote his novel before the game's story was firmed up, but it then begs the question: why bother with the novel?