Assassin's Creed 3

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Ok this is making me curious. What's the deal with this Ezio/Desmond business? Are they the main characters of the previous games?? How does that work, I thought the games were hundreds of years apart...

They are the main characters. Desmond lives in the modern age, where this company has invented a device called the animus, which uses genetic "memory" to let you relive parts of your ancestor's lives. Ezio is his ancestor, and lived during the Renaissance.

You spend most of the game playing as Ezio, but it occasionally jumps back to Desmond.