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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: 2008-07-28
Great Game exept for one thing
The only thing i don't like is that you cant speed through the talking. If you listen to a conversation and you end up dying before a save, you have to listen to the conversation over again, and you cant fast forward! Thats The only thing i don't Like. Oh and it gets a little repetitive after awhile. But the assassinations are pretty cool, I Like them. And The whole killing other guys is neat, if you know how to do it right. Overall its a really good game and real fun.
Date: 2008-07-28
Great Concept, Foundation for a Great Series!
Looking forward to future installments of Assassin's Creed. This game has a lot of potential.
Date: 2008-07-24
Not my cup of tea
I don't usually give into these kind of games, but Amazons price had enticed me to just try it out. I played for a few hours or so, trying out my assassin and horse riding abilities. I just cant get into the the game though. To me it seemed a little repetitive. ie go here, then go there, then return here. the story line was just a little confusing too, set in the future, but yet set in the past. It didn't make sense, and so I resold it after giving the game a few chances.
Date: 2008-07-21
Assassin's Life Not For Everyone
What drew me to this game was the method,assassin, and the location/time period, Holy land during the crusades.This is not so much a first person shooter where you are constantly shooting and blasting. It is slow paced and reserved. I think Ubisoft's not giving in to action junkies is to be applauded. Rather, in this game the kills are well spaced and calculated,and the killing is gooood. It's fun to know you are a major mofo and yet have to chill. If you do get a little antsy it can lead to more than you can handle and you get yourself killed. The scripted linear missions are pretty good and make for an interesting,colorful storyline. I enjoyed the off script activities of walking through the cities, jumping and climbing rooftops, and the occasional assasination of a random guard who found himself patroling alone or killing people your not supposed to.What? Everyone does it! The enviornment is awesome.
For me being able to emerse myself in this time period with theese charachters is enough to buy the game in itself. Let me just say that Ubisoft has done an amazing job of recreating this world. It does take you time to get places and there are lots of people and places to see along the way. Judging by a lot of the small details they really put some time and thought into this. I mean you stop at a bluff overlooking city gates and you can see and hear the cicadda's (grasshopper bugs)!That's detail!
Overall this is an enjoyable game. Again I applaud Ubisoft for staying true to the theme. I'm sure and assassin's life isn't for everyone. Yes, killing can get repetitive.Being a trained killer can dull the challenge level a tad but if you get yourself into a bad enough situation you can and will get hurt. Mostly you just have to chill, cruise the streets and rooftops and do your business quickly and skillfully when it does come. I like this game.
Wish list for Assassins II ? Free play level, more extensive access for utilization and exploration of enviornment. + more, more, more.
Date: 2008-07-08
Basically a next gen Prince of Persia minus the fun
I had high hopes of this game going into and at first glance it would seem as though it was going to be a lot of fun. However, from the moment I engaged in combat I realized that this was not going to be a fun game. They used a similar system previous implemented in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which was that normal attacks on enemies don't do anything, they are all blocked/deflected. You are required to use a special ability or parry type counter to defeat an enemy. This gets somewhat annoying fairly quickly and make the combat system extremely unexciting. In addition to that, there is nothing 'fun' about the kill in this game. As I said this style is very much like Prince of Persia, though in PoP, there was a very creative a visually satisfying way to defeat enemies. You would basically jump off of them and do sort of a cartwheel to then attack them from behind. You could also jump off of walls and do the same sort of thing. In Assassin's Creed however, when you do this sort of counter attack, it is basically a cut scene which creates a complete disconnect with the character. Though this is the easiest way to defeat an enemy, you almost don't even want to do it because it just isn't fun and breaks the flow of the game so quickly. Truth be told, I am not all the way through the game just yet, though I don't see the gameplay changing much throughout the story. I suggest playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and though it won't look like Assassin's creed, it is a much more exciting and fun game to play through.
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