Outside of its home console and PC outings the Assassin’s Creed franchise has not been blessed with the best interpretations. Always enjoyable but rarely of an equivalent standard of innovation as the high-definition (HD) contemporaries, the challenge faced is how to adapt the free-running action videogame formula to inferior hardware. This year however, that challenge hasn’t been overcome as such, but rather skirted around thanks to the launch of a high powered handheld system.