User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 27-08-'15 – First look at Michael Fassbender in the Assassin's Creed film/@comment-5019018-20150827154228/@comment-5019018-20150827163947

Thanks, TheIceClimber, for disagreeing with me without being even slightly condescending.

No, the Animus alone isn't what makes the series what it is. As long as it has the Assassins, Templars, their battle, and shows how their beliefs contrast, then it's an Assassin's Creed movie. You can take the Animus out of the equation, and it would still be good. A film is more limited than a game, and it absolutely has to balance the past and present sections perfectly, or it will feel cluttered.