Since we first visited a First Civ. site in ACII, and the architecture, symbols, wall engravings and technology of First Civ. sites have caught my attention the most. And I kept waiting eagerly with each play through/replay of each new game to reach the parts where we get inside a First Civ. site and interact with one of the Pieces of Eden.

After the release of Revelations, I couldn’t help but notice that the locations manifested by the Animus in Desmond’s Journey segments along with The Lost Archive DLC shared a very similar architecture as First Civ. sites. The were so beautiful, so minimalistic and so modern/futuristic in a way that you can’t help but notice that the same architecture made both locations.

Now, I’m well aware of the fact that the architects (developers and artists) of the games often try to keep everything familiar in terms of design, and reproduce the elements that fans admired so much along with reusing assets and modifying them to create new settings. However, when ACIII came out, the architecture of The Grand Temple was even more similar to Desmond’s Journey and The Lost Archive locations. The huge, plain concrete walls, the pillars, the lightning system, the engravings. Everything seemed like it’s based on the same design blueprints as the aforementioned segments of AC:Revelations. In the very beginning of AC:Revelations, we’re told that we’re in the “safe mode” of the Animus, where there are just basic physics and raw data.