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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: 2008-08-08
Great Game, Amazing Graphics....Repetitive
I really enjoyed the game, but after awhile, it got super repetitive. I kept playing but thought about quiting on the game multiple times.
Date: 2008-08-06
Enjoyed Assassin' Creed to an extent
Overall, Assassin's Creed is pretty good. Chances are-you will enjoy the game.
Pros:
Excellent Effects
Easy button memory
Brutal killing with lots of blood
Cons:
Repeative-having to complete the same type of missions over and over again
Way too much time spent in the lab during off missions
Ending is a bit lame
Very addictive-clear atleast 4 hours per session
Date: 2008-08-06
Ninja Gaiden 2
If you have both PS3 and 360 go with the 360 version smoother frame rates better textures vibrant colors and quicker updates..multi platforms are always better on 360 don't buy the hype
Date: 2008-08-03
grand experience, repetitive details
i'm a mature gamer who bought a dozen videogames and an xbox to see how the technology has evolved. this game is clearly a cut above the others in terms of a majestic and compelling visual environment, absolutely remarkable in its action elements, but weirdly and annoyingly repetitive or incongruous in many mission tasks. among my special peeves are the challenges where you must run madly over rooftops to gather a certain number of flags within two or three minutes (which takes you completely out of the otherwise seamless historical illusion); the lunatics who shove and punch only your avatar, no one else; the beggars who wheedle and whine, the demagogues who harangue, the thugs who taunt or torment, and the victims who thank you for your intervention in exactly the same voice and words in every quarter of three different cities ("please sir, just a few coins!" "coorse them! coorse the infidels!" "thief! this will cost you your life!" "i will find a way to repay you, i swear it!", etc.); and the sometimes erratic control of viewpoint and target selection in the most hectic action sequences. the great beauty of the game is its recreation of the tempo and flux of ancient life, and the remarkable ability of the ai to manage separately a dozen or more individual characters in crowd, melee and panic sequences. the colors and aerial perspective are gorgeous; the recreation of the different cities, while not historically authentic, is visually and aurally compelling; and the fight sequences are really fun to play -- i found myself going on attack sprees just to see how many antagonists i could take on at once. the various weapons and control combinations necessary to fight effectively were difficult for me (a novice player) to master, but you are introduced to the finer points gradually through a simple plot device (you're stripped of weapons at the start, and must win them back one by one) and by training sequences added to each mission. there are also several different ways to complete each of the nine (actually 11) assassinations: you're offered more preparatory tasks to complete than necessary, so that you can pick and choose if you don't want to complete them all; and there's always at least three or four ways to complete each of the nine assassinations that are preliminary to the final round. the plot struck me as overly intricate -- the gist is that your character is moving through a historical memory sequence that is being retrieved in bits and pieces through the technology of a malign, modern day corporation -- and then there are wheels within wheels in the historical plot. and while you gather "clues" or information during your preparatory tasks, there's really no puzzle to solve: all the information is irrelevant as the necessary and obvious cues are inserted into the cutscenes or mission settings. but all that pales to the experience of roaming an ancient city, assassinating random knights templar, climbing high watchtowers to add tasks and clues to your map as you take in the extraordinarily poetic views, and then making a soaring "leap of faith" into a hay wagon far below. as long as you can ignore the beggars, and don't mind the similarity in tasks across different missions, it's quite an absorbing experience.
Date: 2008-08-03
An A for Orginality
First off, I avoided the hype (and the $59 price tag) when this came out and got it used cheap. I think this always skews my review a bit, but there are few games in this world worth $60 in my opinion. However, Assassin's Creed is like no games in the world, and was very much worth my $29. :-)
Graphically, its outstanding. Rendered textures and lighting are some of the best and most realistic I've seen on a 360 game. It got buggy in a few spots, but on a good LCD TV with HDMI inputs, you'll be impressed. The sound, from the music to the AI "chatter" is brilliant, and adds a real cinematic feel to the experience. Gameplay is solid, and easy to pick up, and its a helluva lot of fun to climb the highest church tower in Acre and leap off.
Cons are few. The gameplay gets repetitive if you play ALL the sub-missions, and I absolutely hate unrealistic, craptastic gopher missions like the "get all the flags within 3 minutes" ones. Also, a lot of the fights do get a little lengthy, and your button mashing hand will get its workout until you figure out what combos to hit and get your timing down pat, at which point you will take on 20 enemies with a Shaolin-like flow.
I loved the storyline, and no other game I've ever seen crosses the historical lines like this one. I think its one of the most imaginative and creative stories in a game, ever.
It gets 4 stars from me because now that I'm done, I'm probably never going to play it again. It was a great experience, there just no payoff to going back to it. Like a great summer blockbuster movie, once you have gotten the thrills and chills, it never has the same effect, and I would guess this game would be the same way.
Dont let that stop you though - especially now that the price has dropped AGAIN, you've got no excuse but to add this to you collection. It WILL occupy many, many nights of your life.
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