George IV started the transformation of ‘house’ to ‘palace’ but it was his brother, William IV (you broke the chain of Georges, Will!), was the one who saw it finished. George III bought it from John for his Queen, but it wasn’t until the reign of the King’s son, George IV (there were a lot of Georges in this time period) that it started to become a palace. So he got rid of it and built another that was known as “Buckingham House”.

John Sheffield, the Duke of Buckingham, took over the house but he didn’t like it.

I’m hoping that someone at Ubisoft has snuck in a Holmes reference somewhere on the street and are just waiting for us to discover it.īefore the Palace that we know today was built, another house stood there. The detective first showed up in ‘A Study in Scarlet’ that was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, so while I’m uncertain whether or not AC’s story will reach this year (the game has been given a setting of 1868) we may still be able to visit the famous street and realise that the door numbers don’t actually go up to 221. Some locations will definitely be in the game, like Big Ben (we saw it the trailer) and Trafalgar Square (it’s just up the road from Big Ben), while others are a maybe, like Crystal Palace and Tower Bridge, due to uncertainty about the game’s time span and the scope of their London location.Ģ21b Baker Street is famous for being the home of Sherlock Holmes. So with my eagerness to explore AC’s Victorian version of my city, I’ve come up with a list of 11 locations that I’m hoping to see. I mean, come on, just look at this thing! probably) if I could climb that building in AC ….

AC Syndicate, out later this year, is going to be set in London and soon I will no longer spend my time travelling to work thinking “wouldn’t it be amazeballs (yes, it’s a word! ….

I liked knowing about the building I happened to be standing on. Each time an new piece of information popped up as I got close enough to a new location I would take the time to read it. One of my unexpected favourite things about the Assassin’s Creed (AC) series is how much I enjoyed reading up on the historical events and places I encountered in game.

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