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Assassin's Creed Limited Edition Art Book: Prima Official Game Guide [Hardcover]

David Hodgson (Author), David Knight (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Release Date: Nov 13 2007
Making-of art book: Beautiful artwork and renders reveal the dawning of Altaïr.
Interviews: Revealing interviews with Jade Raymond and key members of every team.
Lithograph: A high-quality lithograph of a stunning rendered scene.
High-quality Packaging: Hadcover package with stunning artwork from the team on the cover.
Clean box art: Prima's one-sheet will fall away when the shrinkwrap is removed, leaving pristine art, unmarred by logos, barcodes, or taglines.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Middle Eastern character and environment galore July 7 2009
By Parka HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Length: 0:14 Mins
Assassin's Creed Limited Edition Art Book is a making-of art book, the not-too-technical kind.

There are over hundreds over beautiful pieces of art included, complete with great insights on how the game was designed artistically. We have the producer, art directors and artists, AI programmers describing how the game was made. They talk about game rules, for example the real world climbing, design concepts for characters and environment, their research process, and other stuff. There's a bit of everything but none too technical.

There are plenty of character design in the book. For Altair, many iterations of costumes are included, with the different belts, embroidery. This also means you get to see a lot of discarded ideas. Other characters include the assassins, citizens, military, Saracens, scientists and of course the different assassination targets. They actually had to put in more colours and accessories because 100% historical accuracy would mean citizens wearing rather similar (boring) clothes.

Concept paintings for the cities, towns and sets are included. These are really gorgeously painted with lots of details. The different sets include Masyaf, Arsuf, the lab, Damascus, Assassin's Bureau, Acre, Jerusalem and a few discarded concepts. The middle eastern mood is so perfectly created that a professor at Oxford couldn't tell that the development team didn't travel for their research. They hired a historian to help with research. Research images provided (not in this book) are not even available on the Internet.

Unfortunately individual paintings are not credited although there's a list of artist included at the back.

For a supposedly limited edition art book that's this good, I'm surprised it's not in limited availability yet. So grab yours while it's still in stock.

There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Middle Eastern character and environment galore July 7 2009
By Parka - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Assassin's Creed Limited Edition Art Book is a making-of art book, the not-too-technical kind.

There are over hundreds over beautiful pieces of art included, complete with great insights on how the game was designed artistically. We have the producer, art directors and artists, AI programmers describing how the game was made. They talk about game rules, for example the real world climbing, design concepts for characters and environment, their research process, and other stuff. There's a bit of everything but none too technical.

There are plenty of character design in the book. For Altair, many iterations of costumes are included, with the different belts, embroidery. This also means you get to see a lot of discarded ideas. Other characters include the assassins, citizens, military, Saracens, scientists and of course the different assassination targets. They actually had to put in more colours and accessories because 100% historical accuracy would mean citizens wearing rather similar (boring) clothes.

Concept paintings for the cities, towns and sets are included. These are really gorgeously painted with lots of details. The different sets include Masyaf, Arsuf, the lab, Damascus, Assassin's Bureau, Acre, Jerusalem and a few discarded concepts. The middle eastern mood is so perfectly created that a professor at Oxford couldn't tell that the development team didn't travel for their research. They hired a historian to help with research. Research images provided (not in this book) are not even available on the Internet.

Unfortunately individual paintings are not credited although there's a list of artist included at the back.

For a supposedly limited edition art book that's this good, I'm surprised it's not in limited availability yet. So grab yours while it's still in stock.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good... Feb 11 2008
By CB - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I haven't played Assassin's Creed, nor do I have a platform that supports it - I just wanted to mention that up front. I'm a fan and collector of conceptual art books, and after having seen the trailers and commercials for this game, I decided to go ahead and get this book. It's a nice book, certainly, chock-full of illustrations that helped in the conceptualization of the game, everything from the minutiae of the main character's costume, to various images of knights, peasants, etc. It's nicely produced, printed of good paper, and has a sturdy hardcover binding. I suppose why this book gets 3 stars is because there's nothing here that is especially eye-popping or earth-shattering here: while the art is well done, it's fairly ordinary and I wish there were more interesting designs, etc. Additionally, the commentary text seems to have been hurriedly edited, as I noted some typos, etc. I'd recommend this book for conceptual art collectors and, probably, diehard fans of the game.
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Mar 26 2013
By cynthia h. - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's a really neat small art book. I really enjoyed seeing each character and the paintings. A good piece to add to your collection if you are a fan of the game and love to see the behind the game art.
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