While Assassin's Creed may have refined and popularized naval combat in gaming, a game from Sucker Punch did it way earlier on the PS2!
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With the first title released in 2007, the Assassin's Creed franchise is just three years into a two-decade run. Ubisoft has created an entire universe where Templars and Assassins have often been interchanged as the protagonists of the adventures.
The franchise has also inspired many other stealth action titles. The Origins games adopted a more RPG approach but retained some of the core aspects of previous titles. While many may believe that Assassin's Creed Black Flag introduced high seas combat to gaming, another game did before the launch of the PlayStation 3!
Stealth action games were not a genre when the PlayStation 2 was widely available. The Metal Gear Solid series had three main games already on the roster, and stealth was a notable mechanic. Sucker Punch was a fairly new studio at the time, having only released one game on the Nintendo 64 before jumping onto Sony's platform with their first major release: Sly Raccoon and the Thievius Raccoonus.
