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Assassins Creed Art Book Hardcover – Special Edition, 13 Nov. 2007

by Prima Development (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
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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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  1. Print length
    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Prima Games
  4. Publication date
    13 Nov. 2007
  5. Dimensions
    21.29 x 1.57 x 27.71 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    076155873X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0761558736
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prima Games; Limited Edition (13 Nov. 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076155873X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0761558736
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.29 x 1.57 x 27.71 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 89 ratings

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    WRITER OF TALL TALES AND HEFTY STRATEGY GUIDES

    After fleeing from a rusting, condemned, dry-docked German fishing trawler slowly sinking into the River Thames, Manchester-born author David S J Hodgson spent his formative career years writing for the UK's premiere video game magazines. After a stint at MAXIMUM magazine and the Official Nintendo UK magazine, he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the crew at the part-fraternity, part-sanitarium known as GameFan magazine. He wrote his first guide in 1996, and has authored over 100 official video game books. Highlights include official guides for Metal Gear Solid (1998), Half-Life 2 (2004), Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006), Fallout 3 (2007), Skyrim (2011-2013), WatchDogs (2014), Fallout 4 (2015), Witcher 3 (2015-2016) and Fallout 76 (2018). He also wrote The Improved Emperor's Guide to Tamriel (TESO Imperial Edition), and The Hero's Guides to the Elder Scrolls Online (2014). He lives in a shed overlooking Los Angeles with his wife, dog, and an eight-foot statue of Great Cthulhu.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
89 global ratings

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conner heron
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Pleased
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2009
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The art book is stunning, interior and exterior. The book has a slip sleeve which can be pulled away, then you have a very clean and very asthetically pleasing book cover (and they said don't judge it by it's cover. Hah, you should with art books?) Inside is an array of beautiful images from the artistic mind behind the game. They talk you through processes and reasons for decisions. The pages are very high quality and are thick, which I think adds to the whole art book feel. The prints are Ultra-High quality. The pages are NOT glossy, but wherever it's printed is. Which is VERY handy as you don't get finger prints on all the pages and avoiding the images isn't hard.

I however DID NOT recieve the Limited Edition Lithograph, which is advertised! I'm very annoyed, I am a collectables fan and without the lithograph I feel as though some of the authentic feel is lost! I hope you recieve it if you do purchase this.

All in all, I highly recommend this art book. Whether your a fan of the game or just a fan of art. The art book doesn't have to accompany the game in ANY way. It's got many amazing art pieces and doesnt focus on the story or the actual gameplay.

9.5/10 = 5/5 (Very annoyed about the lithograph situation!)
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GrimTalin
5.0 out of 5 stars Just great!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2019
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Love this book and I'm happy I could find it!
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Cenlamb
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2015
Prompt delivery excellent purchase.
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Ivan
4.0 out of 5 stars 2nd hand but pleased to have it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 January 2014
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I am becoming a bit of a Assassins Creed fan. I am pleased to add this figure to my collection. Great product, packaged well. Thanks
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MC
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2011
J'ai reçu le colis très rapidement, bien plus vite que prévu. Le livre aussi est identique au descriptif et en parfait état.
Merci de votre rapidité et sérieux!
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Parka
5.0 out of 5 stars Middle Eastern character and environment galore
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2009
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 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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Mr. Joshua A. Voyce
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2009
cheers for this book its fantastic! the art work is amazing more than i expected and it came at an amazing price :P
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Simon Endt
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing piece of history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021
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Love to have this one
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Sarah Thiel
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought used
Reviewed in the United States on 3 March 2022
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My copy was used and had shmudgy child fingerprints all over the jacket cover. BUT the gold inside was perfectly intact (along with some foldout bonus material that had been carefully placed back in the book binding.) If you want to see and read about the creation of this great game and view both the art amd tech side of the roots of the AC world then this book is the one to get. It is full of juicy content and intructive images.
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J. C. V.
5.0 out of 5 stars Puntual y excelente producto
Reviewed in Mexico on 15 August 2020
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Corresponde a los esperado. excelente calidad
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Friky
5.0 out of 5 stars Great one!
Reviewed in Italy on 30 October 2020
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I didn't expect it had so much material, it struck me positively. recommended
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Friky
5.0 out of 5 stars Great one!
Reviewed in Italy on 30 October 2020
I didn't expect it had so much material, it struck me positively. recommended
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Grey wolf
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto estado, una obra increible para la coleccion
Reviewed in Spain on 16 January 2019
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De estado esta impecable, tras una limpieza del cubretapas. Ni un solo golpe y encima venia tambien la litografía. Ha sido una autentica suerte encontrarlo a este precio y en este estado. En cuanto al contenido es un repaso de como empezo todo desde un pequeño boceto de prince of persia multiplayer a Assassins Creed. Dibujos y arte conceptual que no estan en ninguna otra parte. Es una pieza que completa mi coleccion de arte de Assassins Creed
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rubine
5.0 out of 5 stars ARTBOOK
Reviewed in France on 28 February 2013
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le seul endroit ou je l'ai trouvé à un bon prix, vite reçu et la description du produit était exacte, propre, pas abimé;

je le conseille à tous ceux qui son comme moi amoureux des belles peintures numérique, même si je ne joue pas au jeu
j'apprécie l'histoire, la recherche des costumes pour les différents personnages, comment à été fait le jeux.etc....
Comprendre un peut l'anglais est un plus.
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