Desmond’s nowhere to be found in Bloodlines, so don’t expect the game to tie all of the original’s dangling plot threads into a neat bow. The game picks up shortly after Assassin’s Creed’s ending, more or less. Now, it’s not a game-of-the-year contender dark horse or anything like that, but it did keep me fully enthralled from beginning to end, which is more than I can say for the original Assassin’s Creed. I’m happy to report that Bloodlines is, by and large, a good game. And so, by all logical accounts, this should be the part where I absolutely ream into Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines, leaving it torn and bleeding in a bargain bin with so many other failed PSP conversions. Yet here we are two years later, asking Sony’s puny PSP, with its creaky, PS2-era innards, to achieve what the Goliaths to its David could not. The result? An uneven experience, and a handful of thumbs-downs from a fair number of critics.

The original Assassin’s Creed was so ambitious so uncompromising in its scale and vision, that “next-gen” consoles could barely heft its weight.

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