You knew that dear Altair has being doing very well leaping all over past, present and future times in Ubisoft's
Assassin's Creed on PlayStation and Xbox 360 - yet you were strangely perturbed that once on the bus you could no longer control the little assassin's destiny.
This frustrated you, it was an itch of the unscratchable variety (under your chainmail, just behind the knee).
Frustrate no longer: February is the month that you can take something very akin to
Assassin's Creed out on that bus! Well, you can if you've got a Nintendo DS, you're 12 years or older, and you've got £29.99 to spend.
Here's what Ubisoft tells us of
Assassin’s Creed Altaïr’s Chronicles:
"It is the direct prequel of the critically acclaimed console title Assassin’s Creed, where players discover more about the protagonist Altaïr and his deep history. The game features a fully realized 3D world in which players will travel and battle through four cities of the Crusade’s Middle East, using acrobatic moves and exhilarating combo attacks that mix sword skills and high-flying kicks."
Battling your way around the Middle East, eh? Surely someone would appreciate that kind of thing as a gift in their retirement? We shall immediately be sending a copy of this to Nice Mr Tony Blair to play as he globe-trots on behalf of investment bank J.P. Morgan!