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How accurate are the Assassin Creed games dealing with the past? Well besides the obvious. They say put together by a group of historians, how true is that in your opinion? (lemmy.world)
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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

that was a myth. the people in charge of maintaining Notre Dame actually limited how accurate the developers were allowed to make the model in the game, because the exact image of the building is protected by copyright