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Assassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creedmerges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediateenvironment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.
Be an Assassin Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history’s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
Realistic and responsive environmentsCrowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
Action with a new dimension — total freedom Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
Relive the epic times of the Crusades Assassin’s Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and thesubtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
Intense action rooted in reality Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
Next-gen gameplay The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-genconsole allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, more info
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Lame, Lame, Lame, Lame, Lame,Lame, Lame, Lame, Lame, Lame
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Title said it all. Aside from the graphics, which were O.K., this game is monotonous. You basically need to do a few things over and over: 1) Go to all the towers and “synchronize”, 2) Save as many citizens as you can, 3) Complete three mini-missions such as interrogation or pick-pocketing your target, but that’s it. Once you complete the missions, go back to the Bureau and get your assignment. The only reason to save the citizens is so that when you get into trouble you have some assistance from the towns-folk. Then it’s only a matter of figuring out which city you need to go to next and then repeat.
The other reason I gave it two stars are the controls and limited fighting ability. I can’t count the number of times I propelled myself off a building to my death when all I wanted to do is continue climbing.
I also died so many times because I’d try to counter-attack and instead pull a dry body heave in front of my opponent. The result: I get carved up. Yes both can be attributed to the gamer, but I do not have these complaints with Heavenly Sword or Metal Gear Solid.
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
The end is nothing more than a setup for AC II. Once you kill the teacher, or whatever his title was, it’s a matter of waking up going into your room and using eagle vision on the wall behind the headboard to end the game.
As I said, lame.
i can see why this is the greatest hits.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
wow for the price of it, the game is totally worth it. i have just received this game, and all i can say is wow. the game play is doing missions in sneaky and stealth like game play. if you think you can be a sneaky little assassin this is a good game to play.
Boring, plain and simple
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
This game gets old FAST! It was mentioned in a great lengthy review earlier. It starts off really cool, and I was really excited. However….
All the cities look the same. You do the same things over and over. You will soon realize you can pretty much kill any amount of guards who attack you, thereby completely killing the necessity or need to remain stealthy. I wont go in to detail, because others already have. It is fun for the first two cities maybe, then it just gets boring. I made it to Damascus, the 3rd city, and I stopped playing it for the reasons above. Disappointing.
I have also had some glitches, when in the transitioning state (really the level load state, it has stalled out and failed to load the new mission). Required a restart.
Same Scenes and Missions (BORED)
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
TOO many missions? YES.. EQUAL? YES… the same **** always! but i gave it a 5 review, cuz the way it ends and all the things that we need to know about history and misterys to understand it is JST CRAZY!! the close that this game is with the real history is CRAZY ALSO!! for example The ASSASSINS CASTLE IT DOES EXIST in SIRIA! and wow the REAL ASSASINS used to be there at the same time the story takes effect! and not only that! the ones that were killed? that insane but they dissapear around the same time and the EXISTED!! just insane!! cant wait to play the second part… but im praying to be different!! i do want to use FIORE KNOW!!!
Fun at First…
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
So I finally got around to playing and beating Assassin’s Creed. I kept putting it off time and again because I had been warned that the game was overrated and extremely repetitive by some friends. To a large extent they were spot-on correct. Had I written a review for Assassin’s Creed in the first 2 or 3 hours that I played it I would’ve given the game 5-stars. Now after beating the game, I’m genuinely glad it’s over and feel that at best it’s a 2-star game.
First, the plot of AC isn’t at all what I was expecting. The game is actually set in the near future not during the Crusades. Although you’ll be spending most of your time in the year 1191. Confused? Yep, well the story will start to make more sense as you play along. Suffice to say that a shadowy group in the year 2012 has kidnapped Desmond – your character – and holding him hostage. Desmond is then forced to use a machine called the “Animus” to relive memories of his Assassin ancestors that are somehow imprinted on his DNA. It’s far fetched but interesting.
Your enter your first memory as Altair – an arrogant and reckless Assassin – on a mission to recover an artifact from the Crusaders. The first mission goes terribly wrong and Altair is to blame. The leader of the Assassins, Al Mualim strips Altair of his rank and prestige and sets Altair about regaining his lost honor. Al Mualim gives Altair the task of killing 9 individuals in order to set things right. With that you’re released to explore the world around you and kill your first mark in Damascus.
The world consists of 4 cities – Maysaf, Damascus, Jerusalem and Acre. Maysaf serves as the Assassin’s hub and the other 3 cities are where you’ll find your marks. Each city consists of 3 zones – Wealthy, Middle Class and Poor districts. At first only one zone in each city is available; as the story progresses more zones open up.
This is where the first problems really creep in. As soon as you arrive in Damascus to find your first mark you’ll be locked into a very rigid mission structure. Regardless of how open the game claims to be it is actually the exact opposite. You first arrive outside the city gates, sneak into the city via some scholarly assistance and find yourself again confined to whatever zone you’re in. The next task is to find a tower to climb in order to “sync” your map. Essentially you climb towers to reveal the locations of important story-related activities.
Each zone has a predetermined amount of towers to climb. That reveals citizens who need assistance from thugs, eavesdropping events, pickpocketing locations and other assassins that either need help or are testing you. At first this seems rather rewarding and somewhat addicting. Saving citizens from thugs garners you support of mobs that you can use to avoid city guards. Eavesdropping on certain conversations grants you a key piece of information about your target. So an and so forth. The objective is to reveal as much of the map as possible, collect pertinent information on your mark and report back to the local Assassin’s office to prepare for the assassination.
While this is initially rewarding, the fact that you have to repeat the exact same actions again and again – 9 times total by games end – will leave you groaning in boredom and tediousness. After dutifully climbing each tower, saving each citizen and completing every other tedious task set forth for about 3 marks I’d had enough. You’ll quickly realize that most, if not all of the tasks aren’t essential to complete the mission. You can completely ignore the citizens in peril, find 3 pickpocketing or eavesdropping events which garner you the required 3 key pieces of information and then simply report to the Assassin’s office in whatever city you’re visiting. Then it’s just a matter of tracking down your mark, killing him and then losing your pursuers. It’s really that simple. Though by games end you’ll likely be numb from the tedium.
Combat too starts out interestingly enough but soon becomes all to repetitive. Altair gains more abilities and improved weapons as the game goes on. At some point you gain the ability to counter enemy attacks and this is where the game really becomes simple. In essence just tapping a button at the correct moment is all you need in order to defeat every enemy in the game.
The scale and the graphics of Assassin’s Creed are clearly the standout. I played through the game a full year after it was released and it is still impressive. The cities are genuinely beautifully rendered, although the luster will most certainly fade once you realize just how similar each city really is.
Assassin’s Creed is definitely worth playing. Though I can’t honestly recommend anyone purchase the game. Without the useless fetch quests what’s left can easily be completed in a few hours. Stick with a rental.
Redundant
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The first couple hours of playing this game are fairly exciting. I think it is fairly unique in it game play and controls, But…….. After the first couple hours you start to realize that your next task at hand is almost exactly like the previous one. It starts to be really boring after you realize that you’re doing the same thing over and over again. I rented the game and stopped playing it because it began to be boring. I also had trouble with it freezing a couple times. Could have been my console but I have never had troubles with any other games. This game might be worth renting. I always like renting games before buying them because I am picky about what games I like and dislike. Overall very blah.
It’s a excellent game
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
For those who love third person action games, this is one piece of art that will keep you amazed
A fresh concept set in a remarkably detailed world, but it falls short in a few key areas.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The Good:
- Stunning graphics throughout the game. Surface detailing is incredible. Ambient effects such as fog, “floaties” in the air, etc. are well done. The characters are also well detailed and light/shadow effects are excellent.
- Totally interactive, free roaming world immerses you in the game. The citizens interact with your every move.
- The map/city design is well thought out. Each city has a wealth of building styles: churches, palaces, docks, markets, stables, etc. You can tell special attention was paid to the architectural accuracy of the buildings. This rivals Grand Theft Auto as the best free roaming world ever designed.
- Fighting is fun, unless there are a bunch of guards to fend off. Exploring/roaming is also cool.
- Climbing/jumping on buildings is very fun and easy to control.
- Finding the various hidden flags is a nice touch, but there are so many!
- Climbing the viewpoints is always fun and the views on top are incredible. I also like the swan dive you take off the top of the viewpoint.
- Good sound effects and a decent musical score.
The Bad:
- Mission design is very repetitive. You essentially do the same thing for each mission… a little investigation, then an assassination. It gets old.
- Guard/alert system is tedious. It is very frustrated to “blend in” every time you walk past a guard.
- Controls are overly confusing. Try holding “blend in” while walking and trying to look up at a guard on a building. I don’t have three hands, so why do I need that many to perform this simple task. Perhaps “blend” shouldn’t be a push and hold control. The fighting controls also get tiresome. The climbing controls, while easy, don’t always work as anticipated. Sometimes instead of scaling a wall, you bounce backwards right into the guards you’re trying to escape.
- Stealth aspect of the game is underdeveloped. You can’t hide behind objects, peak around walls or even crouch down. But, you can jump in a bail of hay, and that loses the guards… right. You can also sneak up on guards, but again it just feels underdeveloped. Perhaps they should have referenced Metal Gear Solid if they wanted to do stealth right.
- The cut scenes after an assassination are silly, and they are all so similar. The cut scenes with the head assassin (old guy in robe) are also silly and much too wordy.
- After picking up a flag, the screen twinkles with DNA effects, which is pretty, but it essentially makes you blind for 2-3 seconds… not good when escaping guards.
- I have gotten an error “Disk is scratched or dirty” a few times when trying to leave the assassin’s bureau. The disk is perfect… it’s a glitch.
- Some graphical “pop in”, especially when running or riding horse. Entire crowds of people just pop into the screen. Unacceptable for a PS3 game.
- Weapon choices are limited. A sword, some throwing knifes, and a smaller sword, that’s about it.
Overall this game is a cool concept, but it falls short in the key areas of gameplay, control layout and mission design.
Mixed feelings
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
When my friend bought the game and let me borrow it (she’d use it at my house every weekend), I hadn’t ever heard of it before, so I didn’t have any expectations. I was blown away by the graphics and the sheer size of every city and the amount of detail that went into everything. And the fact that you can run around freely and irritate the citizens and guards to your little heart’s content? Shyeah! I had lots of fun with the slogan “I am an assassin. I blend into crowds,” and the fact that you go around groping people to get them out of the way (gentle push), your arms flailing if you stand in one place in the middle of a moving crowd.
Unfortunately, as many people of stated, it gets old after awhile. To the point where my friend who bought the game in the first place got sick of it and just let me keep it. And I got sick of it for a long time and had to go through a few other games before I was ready to come back to it. You get a mission, complete the same sorts of boring investigations, and assassinate the target (i.e. some political leader). Initiate conversation with the victim that hints to the fact that you are being fooled, you talk to your leader who insists they are lying, on to the next mission.
Now the ‘twist’ (I wouldn’t really consider it a twist since it is revealed at the beginning, and frankly, with all the futuristic sparkly blue whatevers floating around, I sort of suspected as much) was kind of interesting. I liked Desmond better than Altair (hearing him speak didn’t grate on my nerves as much) and going around stealing people’s pens was more fun than assasinating people, much to my dismay. The downside to that was that Desmond walks really slowly and he kept glitching over Vidic’s office chair, flying into the air for a second.
While in the Animus, I’d have glitches where I’d walk off a table of sorts, and end up standing on someone’s head. Or during a sword-fight, my camera would glitch through a rock and I’d be left really confused. Or randomly there would be a beeping sound and my screen would go black but I’d still hear the audio, and I’d think that maybe it was just the Animus pulling my leg, but I’d sit there for five minutes and nothing would change. So I’d have to restart. Or the whole thing would just freeze altogether. I don’t know if that’s supposed to be funny, but it was just really annoying.
Towards the end of the game I started to get pumped up for a killer ending that would leave me begging for the sequel. So I finish the last memory, walk around as Desmond for a minute and then, guess what? Credits! The end. Now you get to walk around as Desmond or get back in the Animus and do whatever you want. Let down. And you know what really grinds my gears? The fact that it made me want to buy the sequel.
Dang Its a boring game.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
In my opinion this has got to be one of the most repetitive games in history. Literally you do the same thing over and over and over again. Here’s the entire game – Get briefed, go to a city, climb to get a higher view of everything, pickpocket, rescue a citizen, and eavesdrop, thats pretty much it. After that you get to “sneak” around and kill your target just to let the whole city be alerted to your presence. The combat i find boring, the graphics are OK to me, other than a pretty cool concept and name i think this game doesnt deserve to rank 4 Star Average. In plain words It sucks! Stay Away Save your time and money. Enjoy your PS3 with another game.
BLAH!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This game it so boring. The combat system sucks and the overall flow of the game is so unpolished i just didn’t enjoy it at all. Like you can’t even run around the city without alerting the gaurds. You have to WALK! Even when your on a horse you can’t gallop(without having the guards chase you)…isn’t that the point of a horse? To go fast? I mean really. And the npcs are jsut stupid. Whouldn’t you run away when you saw some bad ass dude with a hood and sword running twards you? No you just stand there and let him run into you! Also the story was overcomplacated. An animus? really? what a stupid idea. The loading screen is also really unnessisary. Ok so theres a loading screen for the loading screen which isn’t really a loading screen its the character is put in a blank white room with symbols all around and you just wait for the REAL game to Load while a badly voiced narater tells you the same tips over and over again. You can move around in this “room” too, its so stupid.
The only thing i liked about the game was the visuals, they are great to look at.
The seller sent me a broken game.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I have played Assassin’s Creed (the game I tried to purchase from this seller) several times in the past. Most missions of the game consist of assassinating nine men. The game would freeze up in the exact same place every time. The first half of the game was fine but the second half was impossible to reach.
Assassin’s Creed
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This game is fun but the missions seems to get repetitive. The gameplay is good and the environment is beautiful.
Bored out of my mind
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
This was the first game I bought for my ps3 a year ago after reading all the good reviews for it on gaming sites. Man were they misleading.
For one thing the title is misleading. This is not a game about assassination at all. The main character is more like a medieval street fighter. Stealth counts for practically nothing in this game, and you are almost always reduced to fighting opponents face to face in broad daylight. Not to mention the fighting is repetitive. You go through the game only using a couple types of weapons, but even out of the four you get you only use the main sword really, though the occasional throwing knife can help spice it up slightly. As for your swordplay you get to a point in the game where you are able to block and counterattack, and this is the only possible move you should be using if you want to win a fight. If you do use the counterattack consistently you are guaranteed to win; if not, most fights you lose. Pretty much all your fights are going to be using that one thing over and over. If you don’t think you can beat someone, you can go run and hide till they stop searching for you, but most often it is quicker (and easier) just to kill your opponents.
Next up is the missions: also repetitive. You have only a handful of mission-types… no, i’d say more like a few fingers-full, to accomplish. And these missions are repeated over, and over, and over, and over again. You start off in one part of the city and you go climb a tower. Looking out over the vasteness of your area, you find other missions. These would include saving a civilian who is being pestered by guards, pickpocketing, and your main mission which is usually and “assassination” (but is more like hey, let’s walk up to this guy in broad daylight and start a fight with him). The missions merit you little reward. In the game reviews I thought saving a civilian was supposed to make people like you and help you out. All that means is some people bunch up together and if you’re being chased, you can hide inside them, but even then that doesn’t usually end up being useful since you can find many other better places to hide.
This game has a vast playable area. You can ride around on a horse and search the many many nooks and crannies for little extra things like flags. But most of the map is uninhabited, desolate, and with nothing to do except ride to the area you need to go to or search for those stupid little extras, of which there are so many you will bore of the hunt quickly.
That said, the city landscapes do look quite amazing, sometimes breathtaking. The story seems interesting, but after playing about 3/4 of the game I just couldn’t bring myself to care enough to finish it.
Okay…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Glitches galore. This game has some bad freezing problems for starters.
The graphics are great. Gameplay is good.
Missions are really weak, climb a building,pickpocket, listen to a conversation… over and over and over… Play one stage, play them all.
My Favorite Game of 2007
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Some get board with the repetitive game play, but not me. I really enjoyed this game.
Ubisoft was amazing!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
At first glance of this game I thought it looked okay. But after getting used to the controls it is very addicting. The play control is very easy to maneuver and the story line is superb especially if you love history as much as I do. I would recommend this game to anyone that loves a good story and is up to a great challenge especially with the knight’s templar’s.
Assasins Creed: Is It Worth The Buy???
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Assasins Creed: Is it Worth The Buy???
everything you need to know about the game before you make your decition.
now, everyone is different in the world. we all have many diverse opinions and likes. it’s what makes us, us.
Now Assasins Creed, is now, relitivly inexspecive now that it has been out for a wile now. however, some people might ask, well if it worth the buy if I hear negative things about the game??? To honestly answer the question. just because I like it, dosn’t mean you will.
now I will warn you, if you havn’t read the rating, it is rated Mature for 17 and up. it is a verry graphic game. you are an assasin in this game, there will be blood.
now that that’s said, time for the review of the game…
Assasin’s Creed takes place in the time of the Crusades. you start out you are an assasin in a guild of your kind (Assasin’s[Brotherhood]) you have 9 targets you are to assasinate within the course of the game. you’ll be taking lives of men in a immersiable virtual ‘reality’.
when you get a name and place to travel to from your ‘Master’ (Guild Leader)you must exit the Guild’s city and mount a horse or travel on foot if you really want to be there a wile. once you race down the trail you must find road markers that tell you the direction of your destination. once done follow until you reach your destination.
once you have you must enter the city, meet at the city’s (conveinent) Assasin’s Headquarter’s,interrogate,Pickpocet, or Eavesdropp upon people who know ‘too much’. once done with such, you return to HQ and set out the next morning to the assasination.
so first thing to note is, the SCENERY. it is quite lif-like, which is a BIG pluss for PS3. The scenery is quite remarkable, the buildings are amazing defeat in gamming. you can climb just about EVERYTHING inside cities. speaking of such you have the English Port Acher, Holy City Jurusalem, The Imfamous Damacus,Kingdom which is the place you go between the cities on your travels. and of course the Guild Homebase city. All places are remarkable looking. a big plus.
Second Thing is your assasin tools. unfotunetly in the beginning of the game you are ripped from you weapons and after every assasination you get one tool back. once all tools are accuired you are a EXTREAMLY leathal Assasin. HOWERVER you ARE NOT INVINCABLE!!! ONE thing I will recamend GREATLY is you USE the fighting-ring at your Guild city. master your abilities, they are what will make you UNSTOPPABLE in your gameplay. I know will not want to, but it WILL help…
Third Thing the Assasination DO differ. never-the-less relitivly slightly. you do have to find info on your, so to be, Vic (Victim). which intails Interagation, Pickpocketing documents, and Eavedropping on follish people who don’t think your listening. each time you go to Assasinate a Vic you will have a district (Poor,Middle, High District’s) don’t worry, the places you won be able to go to once you first start will be little of concern. there’s PLENTY of City to go around, I mean it litilary… now don’t exspect to get all of your targets with your fancy assasin’s blade (hidden in your special mecanizim on your army of maddmen on your back. my first assination went from analizing the situation to mayhem in a split second. NEVER over-think your plan of attack. if you think you’re guise is worked enough for you to reach and kill the vic then DO NOT HESITATE. HOWEVER let’s get away from the gameplay…
Fourth Thing is the DARK SIDE OF THE GAME.
Now I will be BLUNT, THE GAME YOU WILL BUY WILL HAVE GLITCHES. somtimes the will anger you, and somtimes the will be a slight irritant. in the game it tells you if you have a glitch push any button on your controller. somtimes it works somtimes (most of the time)it dosen’t. NOW don’t base you decision on the DARK SIDE. as I was close to doing before buying this game. I read some negative things in a review and I would have missed out on a awesomely put togeather game. with a DARK SIDE there is alway a GOOD SIDE. you’ll have more fun in the game then you will have glitches. I guarentee it.
now the main idea here is to tell you the new’s in the game. I have finished the game, I know what will be instore for you inside it. now how you execute your assasination is solely up to you, the gammer. and so I wish good fortunes on your endevours within the game…
YES THIS GAME IS A GOOD BUY: it is now fairly inexspecive and it will be quite a remarkable ride withing the Crusades. your style.
and So YES if you are eligible for the rating then BUY it. if it has pricked your interest than BUY it, I definatly loved the game, and I hope you will too.
JRF01…
N.B
Good, solid game for the PS3
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I’ve been in the PS3 world for about a year now, and this is easily one of the better ones I’ve seen or played so far. The visuals are absolutely stunning, the gameplay is seamless and fun (although a bit repetitive), and the storyline is intriguing.
After glancing at a REALLY long review on Amazon, I’d say that most of what the guy said is probably true and not worth retelling here. All that being said though, this is a budget-priced game a couple of years old now that has a lot to offer for the casual gamers, and I’m glad that I gave it a shot – a nice addition to the library.
Nice Graphics and Ok Game Play
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Its kinda fun but same over and over. Game like this could of used trophies to push or just make you want to do more when things are getting boring. Anyways its a fun time burner when theres nothing other to play.
(I baught this new here for $9.98 then 10 min later it went to $17.39… lol)
Stunning Next Gen Visuals, But A Let Down In Playability
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Assassins Creed is a game that, before its release, received a lot of hype because of its historical and religious plot, the free running acrobatics and stunning visuals. There is a lot of good to say about this game, but unfortunately, there is also quite a bit of negative to say about the game. Over the past decade or so, thanks to the massive Grand Theft Auto series, the free roaming game has taken on many different platforms from racing to superhero, but none have paled in comparison to the GTA franchise. Assassins Creed was ready to change all that with its deep storyline, detailed and large maps, realistic characters and a free running system that would allow you to scale and jump across buildings to escape your enemy.
The plot is mainly set in 2012 and Desmond Mile, a bartender is kidnapped by Abstergo Industries to be used as a test subject for the Animus Device. The device calls up the memories of an individual’s ancient ancestors and Desmond just so happens to be the ancestor of an Assassin during the Third Crusade of the Holy Land during 1191. The majority of the game places you in the shoes of Desmond’s ancestor, Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad ( , Arabic: “The Flying One, Son of None” or “The Bird, Son of None”) during his quest to assassinate 9 people in Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, who are seen by the Assassins brotherhood as troublemakers and their demise would bring peace between the Crusader and Saracen forces.
The plot is certainly deep and steeped in historical splendour, but with that the game play falls flat in a lot of ways. The free running and climbing aspect is superb and certainly replaces the need for any type of car jacking, but when it comes to one of the best assassins of that time, you would expect the combat sequences to be much better than they are. In this, it’s simply a one button system in which you draw your weapon and just hit the melee button at the right time. The reversal killing sequences are kind of cool, but the overall combat system is weak to say the least. Stealth killing can be fun and the blending sequences are interesting, but again, they just tend to fall flat and become very boring indeed. The missions generally consist of investigations such as eavesdropping, pick pocketing and interrogation in order for you to gain information about your targets location, then the assassination itself.
The settings are immensely detailed and are truly amazing to look at from a very tall point within the city. The other civilians seem realistic but also very generic as they don’t differ at all and really only seem to consist of those who carry pots on their heads, preachers, crazy people and just people walking by. There is so much that could have made this game an undisputable 5 star winner, but the negatives really drag it down in a dramatic way which is a disappointment. The conspiratorial aspect of the plot is what is most interesting and things such as the Knights Templar featured within the game are something I will be researching just out of interest. Looking forward, it seems like the sequel may repair the short comings of this game to make one hell of a gaming experience.
Repetative, repetative.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
great graphics, but you have the same boring objectives in each town. you will spend a majority of your time riding from one town to the next while completing similar kills/steals/boring repetitive goals,
at 20 bucks, it isnt even a rent anymore. wait for AC2. I hear it wont be as repetitive, will have better graphics(graphics already rock). so save your $$$ and dont waste your time.
Assassin’s Creed
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Great game, great graphics. Though it gets a little repetitive by the middles. Since it the game only gets more difficult it doesnt really change the way you do things. But never the less a game worth purchusing.
Superbly lavish graphics and world, repetitive gameplay
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I feel this game had good promise, but eventually fell rather flat on the gameplay part.
First of all, the world is absolutely gorgeous. The cities are huge, and painstakingly rendered. Viewing the entire sweep of a city from a high point is amazing: the small clustered houses, the crenelated walls, the looming bulk of a fortress or church on the skyline…there are many views that are stunning. I found the Assassins’ fortress at Masyaf to also be very visually imposing.
Plus it’s fun to just run around the Holy Land and visit fabled cities like Jerusalem and Acre and Damascus. There’s a lot to explore, and it’s fun to find the flags. (Though I have no idea why Richard’s flags are so often being guarded by saracen guards).
The fighting is visually quite excellent, especially when you pull off a counter move and the camera enters cinematic mode. There are several different ‘scenes’ that play out and they look amazing. That said, the combat is rather flat. You can sneak up behind someone and assassinate them, which is an instant kill, but if you have to engage in actual sword play, you have essentially two options. You hit square over and over and over until they fall over dead, or you can simply hold block and do a counter move when they swing at you, which is basically an instant kill. I quickly learned that I could defeat almost infinite amounts of guards by backing into a corner so they couldn’t get behind me and just hold block and do the counter move over and over. This rather lessened the fear of being discovered when you could take out 10-12 guards at once. A few of the guards, if you blocked too long, would grab you and throw you to the ground, which I thought was a great mechanic (and actually got me killed once fighting aboard a ship!) but did very little to actually make the combats harder as the other guards would not capitalize on this opportunity and you could just stand back up and get back in the fight while they watched.
The view points: Climbing a viewpoint and getting the cinematic sweep of the terrain is nice but…there are way too many viewpoints. I only want to do it two or three times in a city, not a dozen. The screeching jump into the hay pile is only fun so many times, after all. Having to climb viewpoint after viewpoint isn’t all that exciting. I think the developers were (justifiably) proud of their world and wanted to show it off to you as much as possible.
The ‘investigations’ proceeding an assassination are also rather tedious after the first couple times: you basically just do the same couple things over and over: pick pocket, informant, or interrogate. Although I will say some of the informant tasks are among the harder things you’ll be asked to do: such as assassinating a knight (easy) without having your cover broken at any point (significantly harder, and not required for the ‘main’ assassinations).
The ‘blending’ mechanic seemed goofy to me. I think the game could have done without this mechanic. The only time it’s really necessary is to sneak into some areas inside a group of Scholars. Why is walking incredibly slowly to make detection less likely a fun and compelling experience? I generally found I could just ‘normal walk’ sufficiently far away from the guards and generally avoid issues. Avoiding ‘yellow’ guards attacking me this way was very easy, and usually a ‘red’ guard wouldn’t attack me either if I simply walked instead of ran. Anyway, if a guard *did* attack me, I could simply kill him, and that took care of the problem. Or you could just hop onto the roofs and dash around at will (which is fun!). The roof climbing portion is visually impressive, but it’s not as much a ‘platformer’ as Prince of Persia. Basically you can press run, and sprint, and the game does all the jumping for you as long as you hold the joystick in the right direction. It’s much easier than Prince of Persia in that respect.
I found the whole ‘animus’ thing rather tedious and not a particularly good addition to gameplay. I particularly disliked the blue and white swirly ‘loading room’ it put you in before each mission. It was like a loading screen for a loading screen and since you can move around, you wonder…should I be moving around? Are some directions better than others? What do I do? But all you have to do is just stand there and eventually the real mission loads.
Also, I was not impressed by how the the game comes out of the box with bugs that cause freezing issues.
Wow–boring
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I guess I should have read more reviews before I got this game. I thought it was going to be a cool PS3 version of the Hitman PC games. Those are way better. This game is so dull. Thank God I didn’t pay retail. I’m still out 20 bucks for the game though. The cutscenes are dull. I don’t care one hoot about the plot. And the missions are so repetitive that it’s not even funny. Yowsers. How could they have built a game with this cool of effects and graphics and have it come out so lame?