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[crazyrabbit2006]

im sure you all know this has a huge effect in the game, allowing you to climb anything, jump from great heights etc. But i thought id share with you all the actual origins of altairs skills.
A while back, the BBC showed a show about a new urban sport known as parkour in which some french dudes did some crazy stuff in famous london sites. (the link below has some pics)
I especially like the close link between assassins creed's ideas of illusion and parkours feeling of "Human art form".
This was one of the reasons that AC excited me so much

Anyway, check out the sites, go find some rooftops and pretend to be altair.(but please, leave out the murder )

http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour#Video_games
Pics:
http://www.urbanfreeflow.com/urban_g...n_graffiti.htm

[TheEvilEye1919]

those french dudes didnt invent it, they just turned it into a fun activity. you cant call climbing walls and jumping off roofs someones invention.

[FableB]

@theevileye1919: did you think of climbing the wall in the first place?

[Fates.Dark.Hand]

PK was invented by the French, its not just random leaping around like some mad man, its the ablity to move freely over objects in ways the french made (different types of volts ect)
different ways of PK have been invented by the french, PK is short for Parkour, which is Free Running in french. theres lots more to PK than meets the eye...just like an assassin

Having PK in Assassins Creed is totaly awsome, finaly an arobic Assassin, using all sorts of PK to escape. scaling walls and all sorts of stuff like real PK'ers do, will be awsome, deffinatly looking forward to PK and Murder in the same game

[DarkCrawler90]

Indeed, Parkour is awesome. I hope we are going to have a lot different moves.

[crazyrabbit2006]

"those french dudes didnt invent it"- did i say they did?
Glad somebody understood what i meant though

[Lhorkan]

"Share the actual origins"...? The lead dude of AC already said himself that Parkour inspired him. :/

[Sandwarrior1990]

Originally posted by Lhorkan:
"Share the actual origins"...? The lead dude of AC already said himself that Parkour inspired him. :/

Altair's skill is pretty much Parkour stuff, so... maybe he means the origins of parkour.

[silentassasin05]

The french didnt invent it. Altair did, and the french stole it

[Lhorkan]

Originally posted by Sandwarrior1990:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lhorkan:
"Share the actual origins"...? The lead dude of AC already said himself that Parkour inspired him. :/

Altair's skill is pretty much Parkour stuff, so... maybe he means the origins of parkour. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That is what I'm saying. But it doesn't need to be confirmed by a fan, since some developper already said it. That's what I said.