Assassin’s Creed At The Paris 2024 Olympics ▉

Who’s the mysterious hooded figure carrying the Olympic torch throughout Paris?

As the 2024 Paris Olympics kicks off with the opening ceremony, spectators notice a resemblance between the torchbearer and a video game character from Assassin’s Creed — and they seem to be loving the similarity of the unknown figures traveling through the city using parkour moves.

While we can’t confirm whether there’s actually a connection between the game and the torchbearer video game creator Ubisoft, a French video game publisher, tweeted a photo from “Assassin’s Creed Unity” during the Olympics opening ceremony. The game just so happens to be set in Paris during the French Revolution.

As soon as I saw it I was like “Wait, is that an Assassin’s Creed reference?” and apparently it was. Nobody is outright saying it, but this tweet from Ubisoft pretty much confirms it for me. I also keep forgetting that Ubisoft is French.

Generally speaking I thought the opening ceremony was long but one of my favorites over the years. I loved how they incorporated the entire city into the show and didn’t really do much that, to me, was terribly fancy or smacked of over the top tech¹ like drones. It was also unapologetically French and driven by French history and blended with modern France. I mean who else has the balls to incorporate Les Miserables, a French Revolution song, and have it performed by a French metal band with a French opera singer.

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