The first details are starting to show up on Assassin's Creed for the Nintendo DS, as well as the above scan of the box art: Hawt.
The game is a prequel to the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 title. Portraying Altair's ascent through the ranks to Master Assassin before his fall from grace, this 3-D,game seems to be primarily controlled with the traditional buttons, although there are touch-based mini-games in which you interrogate suspects and rifle through someone's bag to pickpocket them.
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