Editor Note: This is one of six stories about obsessions students and faculty have.

Mankind has been around for almost 15,000 years. In all that time, every second that has occurred has been a part of history. But what if you were told that history as you knew it was wrong? That’s the question that the video game Assassins Creed has asked millions of players. And the game has certainly developed a large fan base, including junior Leslie Tate.

“Video games are too stereotyped as a guy’s thing,” Tate said. “I get comments about it every time someone hears about it.”

The game takes players to exotic locations such as Jerusalem, Rome and Constantinople. In the game players fight a secretive war against members of the Templar Order, whose members included Pope Alexander VI, Adolf Hitler and Lee Harvey Oswald.

“I like how the fictional and nonfictional parts blend together and how people in history are the people you can play as,” Tate said.

Tate began playing video games in 2007 when her mom bought her stepdad an X-Box and she started playing.

“The first game I got was Gears of War,” Tate said. “I would come home from my mom’s work every day and get on the X-Box and start shooting things. After that I would just get any game that had a cool looking cover.”

The third and final game in the series, Assassins Creed III, will be released Oct. 30 and will take players to fight in the American Revolution.

“It’s not like normal where it’s guns and snipers,” Tate said. “It’s time period weapons and fighting techniques. It’s really the time period that sells it.”