User blog comment:The Leaping Eagle/What would you have liked in Revelations?/@comment-4681429-20120622194716/@comment-4043223-20120622232456

The problem is that they are feeling the pressure. The series has grown into the universe we have now and they set a real time (end of 2012) as an important event in the series. They are forced to stick to this dealine now for the Desmond story at least and they have put out a huge amount of info (games, books, comics, films etc) to cover the vast scope of the Assassin's Creed Lore. If we never had ACB or ACR then we wouldn't have such a rich tapestry of a storyline, universe, history and characters. The AC team has the tagline of "History is our playground" and for 4 games they have covered a lot of history (though still a drop in the ocean compared to the true scope of human history), yet they took on that challange and gave us unique setting and time period never seen before in gaming.

Not forgetting that they balanced the modern element of a story with the historical element, while maintaining the conspiracy elements, the multiplayer storyline and the various trans media projects such as the comics, into a cohesive storyline that hhas left us now waiting in anticipation of AC3.

For me at least I find it very impressive what the team managed to accomplish over the years especially within such a tight timeframe.