This conceit lead Desmond through a variety of eras in previous games, ending with the American Revolution in Assassin's Creed 3.
From trailers, it appears to be about an assassin in Italy for one last hit.
Tom Cruise as an assassin in a silver-gray suit shows up in Los Angeles at dusk and expects to leave at dawn.
To portray a serene assassin in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, he studied Eastern and Egyptian philosophy and samurai meditation.
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With Paolo Bonacelli as a priest who urges the assassin to take God into his heart, and the beautiful Violante Placido as a prostitute who falls in love with the assassin after he performs an act of sexual gallantry that no man experienced with prostitutes would likely perform.
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has received a Purple Heart after being shot in the head by a would-be-assassin while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8.
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In 1911, Russian premier Peter Stolypin was fatally wounded by an assassin at a theater in Kiev.
"I like playing interesting villains, " he said, calling to mind parts like that of the laconic, strangely sympathetic assassin Joubert in Sydney Pollack's "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).
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In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, died in a shoot-out with federal troops 11 days after Lincoln's death.
In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President Kennedy was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby in the car park of Dallas Police headquarters.
"Dishonored" (Arkane Studios, Bethesda Softworks) is a brand new title set in a steampunk-like world that puts players in the role of an assassin set on restoring his name.
In 1768, Charlotte Corday, assassin of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (murdered July 13, 1793), born.
An aide close to Mr Rugova narrowly escaped death by an assassin's bullet in Pristina, Kosovo's regional capital.
George Clooney plays a professional assassin who lays up in a medieval hill town in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Whether Sadat was purposely deceptive or whether he was simply blocked from implementing his vision of peace by an assassin's bullet in 1981is unclear.
Clint Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a tired-looking middle-aged Secret Service agent who gets wind of a plot to kill the President and marshals his flagging powers in an attempt to stop the assassin (John Malkovich).
It will also feature a female Assassin for the first time in franchise history.
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One of the women, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten, the fine Dutch actress who played the hotel owner in "In Bruges"), is an assassin, too.
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He also ordered the transfer of a retired police colonel, allegedly a professional assassin, to a prison in the Amazon state of Acre.
In addition Sony spotlighted the previously announced Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty games, which have already proved hugely successful on other formats.
On October 14, 1912, just before giving a scheduled speech in Milwaukee, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by would-be assassin John Schrank.
The Assassin's Creed video game series -- beyond its trademark murderous historical fiction -- is known for arriving in annual installments. 2013 is no exception, with French publisher Ubisoft recently revealing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, a pirate-centric next entry in the long-running franchise.
Majestyk, though, is the one who lands in jail and becomes the target of an assassin (Al Lettieri).
Not only was the museum at the corner opened but the assassin's fateful footsteps were set in the pavement.
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The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.
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For example, an attempt to bring down Zia's jet with a surface-to-air missile in 1982 is bungled because the would-be assassin has never used the weapon before.
Instead of rehashing what has already happened in a simulation-type game, "Assassin's Creed III" aims for the gray areas of history and focuses on events that may not have a clear-cut explanation.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the offending scene showed the shooting of a security guard in the lobby of a Shanghai skyscraper by the French assassin being chased by Bond.
The marble bust had been fashioned by his friend and court sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel during Gustav's reign, which began in 1771 and ended 21 years later at the hands of an assassin.
Of course, the conceit of the AC series has always been that you're a modern man named Desmond Miles, a member of the ancient Assassin's Guild, and that you're experiencing your assassin lineage through a machine called the "Animus" in order to save the world.
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