Desmond's story takes place over the whole series (apart from ACIV I believe) but each numbered title starts a new ancestor's memories. There's a summary for what's going on in present time at the beginning of each game, but I mean you could have just read the wiki page if you were going to skip it anyway. So yeah you don't really have to play the first to get the second.Originally Posted by ToriJ
I was told you didn't have to play the first one to understand the second.
