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 Ubisoft Montreal had a lot of things to say about Assassin's Creed (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3) that made us hunger for more. Innovative controls, amazing visuals, big and immersive cities, top notch art direction, you name it. The much anticipated action game finally appears on shelves, and we jumped at it without a second thought. We played it for hours on end, and here's our verdict.

Ubisoft announced today that Kristen Bell would be appearing as a new character in Assassin's Creed (PS3, Xbox 360). According to the report, Bell will play a key character for the game, playing an important part in the game's storyline.

Said Bell about her new role, "I was a big video gamer growing up, so working on Assassin’s Creed is my chance to be a part of video game history.... I look forward to seeing what my character will look like and I can’t wait to play the game and see if I can beat it!"

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Exactly just how much is an actress, involved in an upcoming game, entitled to reveal about the project? Depends on what the marketing strategy probably is. Or maybe depends on how much mystery the developers and publishers would want to be engulfing the title.

As to Assassin's Creed, we don't know if Ubisoft has given Kristen Bell the green light to divulge the sci-fi premise underpinning the game. According to the Veronica Mars star in her interview with IGN TV,

It's sort of based on the research that's sort of happening now, about the fact that your genes might be able to hold memory. And you could argue semantics and say it's instinct, but how does a baby bird know to eat a worm, as opposed to a cockroach, if its parents don't show it? And it's about this science company trying to, Matrix-style, go into people's brains and find out an ancestor who used to be an assassin, and sort of locate who that person is.

Right. Did you guys get all that? Sure was a mouthful. Anyhow, we guess it's not just the medieval action title we all thought it would be then, after all. If ever that is the real case regarding the game, that sure was some twist there. We just hope it wasn't all that spoiled by this revelation.

Assassin's Creed will be porting to both the Xbox 360 and PS3 come the 4th quarter of 2007.