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Assassin's Creed Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: UBI Soft
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Xbox 360
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-05-29
Beautiful but slow
This game has beautiful artwork and an interesting story line, but the game is very linear and is filled with short movies containing long-winded speeches. My wife would walk in and see me with the controller in my lap and say, "I thought you were playing..." "I am," I would reply, "This is it. This is the game." It's a lot of watching interrupted briefly with some very linear game play. If that's what you enjoy, this is the game for you.
Date: 2008-05-29
Templers!
Awsome addition to your 360 Games! fun open-world play! this game has a very interesting storyline, and the swordplay is fun. i recommended this game to people who want to kill templer baddies!
Date: 2008-05-29
The Prince meets Agent 47
Assasin's Creed is an extremely good game. The story line is great(fantastic if you like the HolyLand and its history) and the graphics, gameplay and presentation are all great. The campaign is reasonably lengthy, and te side missions are sometimes worthy, I say sometimes because, for side missions like collecting flags, It annoys me to see that I have to collect 100 KingRichard flags , while I'm happy to do the 20 Masyaf flags. 100 simply is too much. and not that rewarding. They should have distributed the achievements for stunts and stealth kills etc.
Gameplay is a mix of the prince, Hitman and GTA. I say GTA due to the open environments and the wanted level mechanic. I've heard elsewhere that this game would have been better if it was played more GTA like. I disagree, Rockstar does GTA and gets it right, Assasin's Creed is too good to be a knock off like any other.
Still the gameplay could have used a bit more variety, than the standard approach of scaling all view points, and taking on each task one by one. It would have been better if tasks lead to one another.
The graphics are awesome. And finally Amazon has this game for 30 bucks now. You simply wont get a game better than this for the price.
Date: 2008-05-27
excellent game
excellent graphics and animation. very cool game, a litle difficult to remenber all the controls options depending of the situation. but i enjoy a lot.
Date: 2008-05-27
Assassin's Creed: Not As Spectacular as Advertised
Since Assassin's Creed was released, I've heard nothing but good things about it. Particularly, I frequently read descriptions of the game as "open world" and "immersive." While you can climb on almost any building and kill any person, thus satisfying your mindless gaming need, this didn't quite meet my standards for an impressive open world.
The pros are all as advertised. You get to assassinate people, specifically nine Templar targets who have been disturbing the peace in cities of Acre, Damascus, and Jerusalem. You can run, jump, and climb to your heart's content. The game has some degree of historical basis and accuracy which is worth looking up once you're into the game. The plot has a twist. All in all, it can keep you entertained for a while.
There are a fair number of cons, however. It's not nearly as easy as advertised to plan out your assassination step-by-step and covertly murder your target without detection. You will almost inevitably be detected before you can take out your target, meaning you will also fight the twenty-plus guards or loyal supporters surrounding your target and then spend ten minutes running around the city trying desperately to find a likely hay cart to hide in.
Interaction is incredibly limited. You can't initiate contact with anyone except plot-related characters, and even saying that is a bit of a stretch. Your contact with others is limited to your targets, your boss, and the informants who enlist your help for their usually meaningless missions.
Oh, right - that brings us to side quests. You have five of them that you will do over and over again in every city, in every district, until it makes you sick: saving citizens from nasty guards, helping informants by killing people or retrieving flags, eavesdropping to gather information, pickpocketing to get maps or lists, and interrogating (i.e. getting in fist fights until the other guy caves, gives you the info you need, and you kill him). Now, it sounds like enough variety, but the reality is that you will spend most of your time saving citizens and climbing really tall buildings to find viewpoints. And the fact that you will go to the same few cities three times each and repeat these five or six tasks again in every district makes the novelty of the side quests wear off quickly. It grows tiresome and chore-like before you've offed your first couple of Templars.
It's a good game to get at a cheap price or borrow from a friend but it doesn't have a lot of replay value. I certainly plan to trade it in for something marginally more redeeming in the future. But if you just want to assassinate some people and bounce around the city rooftops like a monkey, this is your game.
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