History AwesomeMusic / AssassinsCreed

* [[https://youtu.be/9ZEhqORSfNg?si=U9llrM8PQdLU40rQ "The Shadows We Walk"]], which plays during the intro. It's a slow, somber song that has some digital sounds throughout, bringing to mind the Animus. All throughout, a lone man sings in Arabic, "This is not fair of you. You have been gone a long time. If they ask me about you, what would I say?"
* [[https://youtu.be/O7m4_xmQMTs?si=nMhi9QJwhck1CME- "Daughter of No One"]], the song that plays during Basim's training at Alamut. In addition to the growing instrumentation throughout, Arabic lyrics are sung by Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, adding something special to the song.
* [[https://youtu.be/hm3P6zPXF-A?si=me63dcEfKXiDUqgs "Tales of Baghdad"]], one of many songs that can play while you explore the city of Baghdad. This song in particular makes excellent use of echoes and reverb to make it sound almost ethereal.
* [[https://youtu.be/qTHd_iUIjzI?si=WFSuflYkFvXu5CEJ "Incense Trails"]], a slow, gorgeous, and haunting piece with gentle woodwind and strings playing over a droning synth. It's a bit of a bittersweet song, sounding both beautiful and mournful.
* [[https://youtu.be/ShSea7IVsfM?si=zljwEyRjIJMlILPu "Pools of Blood"]], one of the combat themes. Not only is it high-intensity throughout, with pounding percussion that never lets up, but it also makes great use of synthetic sound that sounds a bit like dubstep.
* [[https://youtu.be/x-3-twFWqf4?si=iC-cYDe24LJ5djwb "Ezio's Family - Mirage Version"]]. It is, easily, the [[DarkReprise darkest version]] of "Ezio's Family" in the series so far, with a minor key, somber instrumentation, and a lone man singing in Arabic, "Where is my home? Who am I?" It's haunting, and it's absolutely beautiful.

* [[https://youtu.be/yEKeDsMOr3Q "Into the Light"]], from the cinematic trailer. It's three and a half minutes of pure, unfiltered Middle Eastern instrumentation. Harsh, yet beautiful strings and percussion that build and build in intensity before finally reaching their climax and transitioning into a ''gorgeous'' rendition of [[{{Leitmotif}} Ezio's Family]] for the finale.

* [[https://youtu.be/eA0nbtxfeq4 "Legend of the Eagle Bearer"]], the main theme of ''Odyssey''. This song instantly lets you know that you are in for a true Greek epic with the incredible vocals and strings that encapsulate the massive scope of the game you're about to play.
* [[https://youtu.be/iYpuJNHJpAw "Assassin's Creed"]]. Obviously, this is ''Odyssey'''s take on "Ezio's Family", and it's easily the most epic sounding version of the franchise's theme song. Of particular note are the excellent lead vocals and the intense percussion.

[[folder:''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]
* "[[https://youtu.be/eA0nbtxfeq4 Legend of the Eagle Bearer]]", the main theme of ''Odyssey''. This song instantly lets you know that you are in for a true Greek epic with the incredible vocals and strings that encapsulate the massive scope of the game you're about to play.
* "[[https://youtu.be/iYpuJNHJpAw Assassin's Creed]]". Obviously, this is ''Odyssey'''s take on "Ezio's Family", and it's easily the most epic sounding version of the franchise's theme song. Of particular note are the excellent lead vocals and the intense percussion.

* [[https://youtu.be/WwGNPtBX7Nk Lorde's cover]] of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (from ''The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'') set to the trailer, anachronistic as all get out, but awesome.

* While the first game's soundtrack is not as memorable as, for example, the second, the theme of Jerusalem, appropriately named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU_w0TxKe0I City of Jerusalem]], is most definitely extremely beautiful. What makes it even better is the fact that composer Jesper Kyd combined Middle Eastern with Christian music themes to show how the city was still separated into Muslim and Jewish parts back then.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXRkQyuzPv4 "Access the Animus"]]. Nine minutes of exactly why ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'' wins so very, very hard. A steady progression from quiet and deadly atmospheric ambience to stealthy evasion to outright incredible action music.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D-Kx4WpxE "Red in the Face"]]. It's almost worth getting detected just to listen to this while freerunning.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZg0l6GHEg "Spirit of Damascus"]] sounds like it could be just slightly out of place (it would be ''very'' fitting for an Ancient Egyptian city) but this track and the scene accompanying it the first time you hear it give a taste of what's to come in terms of SceneryPorn, not just in this game, but in the entire series following it.

* There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0L4gvq-8f0 "Flight Over Venice"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhjyS_tgB7A Part 2]], along with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLgKHMfQ0OQ "Back in Venice"]].
* The most distinctive score is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EOW2A6z6I "Ezio's Family",]] which is played in opening sequence of the game. It may give you second thoughts after you discover the Auditore family's fate. It's so memorable it became [[BootstrappedTheme the anthem of the whole franchise]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWvJfeMD0w Earth]], especially as it plays when Ezio finds his father's iconic Assassin's robes and suits up for the first time.
* The beautifully frenetic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9geXVAOFDg Venice Rooftops]] plays during most race and courier sequences, both in the main story and in side missions. Later remixed for Ezio's crossover in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]''. A remix of "Ezio's Family" runs through this piece. It is particularly poignant that said remix can be taken as a reference to Ezio's own thoughts as he free-runs, remembering back in the carefree days when he used to do this with his brother, before the latter as well as his father and younger brother were hanged by Templar conspirators.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11s1rWrH9o End Fight]], which was inexplicably excluded from the official soundtrack.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCX84ZrXPU8 Sanctuary,]] a poignant and beautiful piece that plays through-out your time in Venice, that perfectly portrays the triumph and heartbreak Ezio must feel being an Assassin.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruklS-gdPNE "City Of Rome"]], while similar to "Flight Over Venice", has a haunting depth to it.
* The [[OminousPipeOrgan organ]] and choir music used as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsNepQ2DwE leitmotif for the Borgia]] is deliciously ominous. Not to mention the dramatic effect whenever Ezio destroys a Borgia tower.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU3RJPzkw74 Countdown]]" combines TerribleTicking percussion and creepy Latin whispering to create an incredibly tense piece of stealth music.
* To beautifully accompany the massive and tragic {{Cliffhanger}} at the end, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqctftxbS3c end credits]] combine both "Ezio's Family" and "Venice Rooftops" into one, and they flow surprisingly well into each other.

* The song from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTtIIW1WA0 E3 trailer]] is "Iron", by Woodkid. It is an amazing piece, both musically and lyrically (though they can be difficult to understand -- see [[http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/woodkid/Iron/ here]]) and sends chills down one's spine on repeated listenings, playing as it does over Ezio being an utter badass.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lDwicLKiu0 "The Forum of the Ox"]], which plays while you're jumping across ruined ledges to chase a boat over deadly rapids. Truly an ''Assassin's Creed'' moment.
* Although only an advert, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs music]] to the ''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6Q14vBB1c trailer]] was just brilliant.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q6PZibPlk "Laboured and Lost"]], which plays during the game's ending, showing the end of the First Civilisation. It's truly a powerful moment and the music just heightens that. Its awesomeness must be seen to be believed.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scp0Y58ka88 "Welcome to Constantinople" ]] is incredibly melodious and light, a sense of serenity, hope and new horizons all at once, which captures Ezio's feelings in Istanbul and his late age.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXdzXlu7H8 "The Revelations theme"]] is worth a mention. Soft, sombre, and haunting for the main part; turned dramatic and powerful by the end!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOqXY4dWNqk "Enough For One Life"]], which plays when Ezio "speaks" to Desmond through the Animus. A beautiful and haunting rendition of the game's main theme.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juv5sfc-HrQ "Trouble in Town",]] the angsty, turbulent music which plays during the Boston Tea Party, and when you are chasing Charles Lee. The mission is ThatOneLevel at Full Synchronization but if you time it right, its the ultimate chase music for the ultimate chase sequence. It also plays during the credits.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-_P_Bq1RQ "Modern Assassin"]] is the "Modern Day" version of "Trouble in Town"; this plays whenever Desmond is in a fight.
* There's also this unreleased track that plays when Connor travels [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Po_dmTXB4 through the forests and the frontier.]]
* The unreleased track called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b0oF6ovmrU Homestead theme]] from ''III'' captures the solitude, peace and beauty of the settlement in the forest and also sounding like a mix of Native American and European themes, without being either, symbolizing the harmony which sadly never happened.
* Though its part is unfortunately short, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HE4OFoezVg Fight Club theme]] is a fantastically fast-paced piece both catchy and fun.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfoqwWdHY-E "Connor's Life"]] perfectly captures just how painful Connor's story is.
* The main theme, which comes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_If2liR7wQ three]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevWu6A1LPM different]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNi7k1vLd8 flavors]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsgpP67hA7w "Eye of the Storm"]], perhaps the most tense of the handful of naval battle tracks. This was the first game in the series to use sailing and ship battle mechanics and it only got better from here on out, but subsequent games' soundtracks for naval battles don't quite match up to this one--you might be tempted to put this on when you're sinking ships as Edward, Shay, Aya, or the Eagle Bearer!

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZt6gw_wZfM "Stealing A Brig"]], which is played when you first take the Jackdaw and during the fight near the end with Bartholomew Roberts.

* ''Black Flag'' is filled with numerous actual sea-shanties that you can collect on land, including favorites like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2b-CSOwDY "Drunken Sailor"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgmZqd8Fu5s "Spanish Ladies",]] but also obscurities like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXe1ZhJ25o "Randy Dandy Shanty"]]. These shanties can be played by Jack, one of your crew, like the 18th Century version of Radio/GTARadio and when sailing in rough weather, truly makes the game a magical experience, making you bond with your crew and the surroundings and feel the excitement of being part of the WoodenShipsAndIronMen generation. Especially "Fish in the Sea" when played in a rough gale or in a storm:

** The most fitting tavern song for the game, for its theme and setting is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRZWnv2v78 "Here's a Health to the Company".]]

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sL3686bck4 Fight the Oppressions]], one of the battle songs.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmlCudR3JPk The main theme]], containing elements of Ezio's well-known Leitmotif, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EOW2A6z6I Ezio's Family]].
* Forest Swords' original work, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na6pizsEhGc Hood]] was created for the announcement trailer, and sounds very foreboding.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4oWhjsogb0 Streets]], a motif that appears throughout the soundtrack to signify the wide-open winter-world that Shay explores, would not sound out of place in a game like ''Skyrim''.
* From the trailer and Legendary Ship battles comes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okwR9oO4cDc David and Goliath]]. A fittingly epic piece to depict the overwhelming power and menace of a ship like the Storm Fortress finally being overcome by the Morrigan.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwGNPtBX7Nk Lorde's cover]] of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (from ''The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'') set to the trailer, anachronistic as all get out, but awesome.
* After using Woodkid's "Iron" for the trailer of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', they use another track, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWMMdX6KYGM "The Golden Age"]] for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEVD31y8cME CGI trailer]] introducing Arno and Elise.
* And from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2-tacATViQ co-op trailer]], we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8clUPBid0k Pistols at Dawn.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-5efgUncY This]] was chosen for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Y8t1IBTlA Launch Trailer]].

* The Toydrum remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RHnhW3rt6Y "In the Heat of the Moment,"]] by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WjOKqnszo Bloodlines]], the main theme of the game.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBjBRu82z4M "Jokes Jokes Jokes"]] is a manic, fast-paced tavern song that perfectly matches the mad theatricality of Maxwell Roth and [[TheVillainSucksSong ridicules him at the same time]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4fOIVlEOIY "The Main Theme"]] which incorporates tunes from other songs in the soundtrack and combines them into one song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eZ4-3Yg9c "Apep's Vengeance"]] serves as the background music for stealth in certain enemy camps, and transitions into a louder and faster version of itself if you get caught.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScCfdlJ1a3A "The Battle of Krokodilopolis"]] plays in the background of random fights, but will always play when doing the arena or getting in combat near the aforementioned city.
* The game's version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kM1Y5VLEd8 "Ezio's Family"]] which combines the feeling of the original song and the overall sound and theme of this game's soundtrack into one, and it sounds amazing.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAIp99pbEc "Bayek of Siwa"]], Bayek's theme.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idq2GYJU3Zw "A Divided Land"]] which plays after activating a synch point or in certain parts of the campaign.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cFtBM7ZGws "I Walk on Your Water"]] which can play during investigations.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7-oJ2LXkY "Return of the Medjai"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvIqT-5sWmA "Legions of Blood"]] which both randomly play when getting into combat.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTs0PCJJRo "Dead Kings and Living Gods"]] which plays during investigations and when sneaking to assassinate one of the Order.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnoIcQp9j_8 "Moonlight on the Nile",]] which plays generally at night when wandering Egypt, is a great piece for evoking the mysticism and grandeur of Ancient Egypt.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-_P_Bq1RQ "Modern Assassin",]] which is basically the "Modern Day" version of "Trouble in Town"; this plays whenever Desmond is in a fight.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-_P_Bq1RQ "Modern Assassin",]] which is the remix of "Trouble in Town" that plays during the Modern Day segments, particularly when Desmond is in a fight.

* This unreleased song, popularly called [[https://youtu.be/igSHfGMjrso "Disorder of the Ancients"]], plays only after Eivor meets the Grand Maegister of the Order of Ancients, at the very, very end of the game. You've got the game's main theme, and on top of that, you've got Einar Selvik giving it his all as he sings some verses of the Völuspá. This is as much of an ending showstopper as this game has, and it sells it.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWvJfeMD0w Earth]], especially as it plays when [[spoiler:Ezio finds his father's iconic Assassin's robes and suits up for the first time]].

* The truly lovely "Peace at Forli" first plays when Ezio and Leonardo sail from Forli for Venice and then memorably plays during Ezio's NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech in the ''Bonfire of Vanities'' DLC and then finally makes a stirring comeback in ''Assassin's Creed Embers'' playing [[spoiler: during Ezio's final moments and the letter he left behind.]] It's TearJerker music at its finest.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q6PZibPlk "Laboured and Lost"]], which plays during the game's ending, [[spoiler:showing the end of the First Civilisation]]. It's truly a powerful moment and the music just heightens that. Its awesomeness must be seen to be believed.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOqXY4dWNqk "Enough For One Life"]], which plays when Ezio [[spoiler: "speaks" to Desmond through the Animus.]] A beautiful and haunting rendition of the game's main theme.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZt6gw_wZfM "Stealing A Brig"]], which is played when you first take the Jackdaw and [[spoiler: during the fight near the end with Bartholomew Roberts.]]

* [[http://youtu.be/F8p1hor857E Underground]], the song that plays during the final modern day sequence as well as over the credits. The lyrics are particularly haunting, especially if you think of the various Assassins we've known throughout the years [[spoiler: and in particular, Desmond]].

* And, of course, because [[BootstrappedTheme no Assassin's Creed game would be complete without it]], we have [[https://youtu.be/t97btsQ8FNc Ezio's Family - Ascending to Valhalla]]. Primal, pounding, majestic, haunting, beautiful. It's the perfect mix of the more gentle melody of Ezio's Family mixed with the far more [[DarkerAndEdgier brutal and dark themes]] of ''Valhalla''.

* The truly lovely "Peace at Forli" first plays when Ezio and Leonardo sail from Forli for Venice and then memorably plays during Ezio's WorldOfCardboardSpeech in the ''Bonfire of Vanities'' DLC and then finally makes a stirring comeback in ''Assassin's Creed Embers'' playing [[spoiler: during Ezio's final moments and the letter he left behind.]] It's TearJerker music at its finest.

* The most distinctive score is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EOW2A6z6I "Ezio's Family"]] which is played in opening sequence of the game. It may give you second thoughts after you discover the Auditore family's fate. It's so memorable it became [[BootstrappedTheme the anthem of the whole franchise]].

* The beautifully frenetic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9geXVAOFDg Venice Rooftops]], which plays during most race and courier sequences, both in the main story and in side missions. Later remixed for Ezio's crossover in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur V]]''. A remix of "Ezio's Family" runs through this piece. It is particularly poignant that said remix can be taken as a reference to Ezio's own thoughts as he free-runs, remembering back in the carefree days when he used to do this with his brother, before the latter as well as his father and younger brother were hanged by Templar conspirators.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11s1rWrH9o End Fight]], which was inexplicably excluded from the official soundtrack.

* One piece of music which is truly lovely is "Peace at Forli" which first plays when Ezio and Leonardo sail from Forli for Venice and then memorably plays during Ezio's WorldOfCardboardSpeech in the ''Bonfire of Vanities'' DLC and then finally makes a stirring comeback in ''Assassin's Creed Embers'' playing [[spoiler: during Ezio's final moments and the letter he left behind.]] It's TearJerker music at its finest.

* These New Puritans "We Want War", for the first multiplayer trailer of ''Brotherhood'' released at E3 2010.

-->Our 'prentice Tom may now refuse\\

-->Over the hills and o'er the main,\\

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D-Kx4WpxE "Red in the Face"]]. Just the action music part. It's almost worth getting detected just to listen to this while freerunning.

* The most distinctive score is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EOW2A6z6I Ezio's Family]] which is played in opening sequence of the game. [[spoiler:It may give you second thoughts after you discover the Auditore family's fate.]]

* To beautifully accompany the GutPunch at the end, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqctftxbS3c end credits]] combine both "Ezio's Family" and "Venice Rooftops" into one, and they flow surprisingly well into each other.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqctftxbS3c end credits]] combine both "Ezio's Family" and "Venice Rooftops" into one, and they flow surprisingly well into each other.