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Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition Review (continued)
More User Submitted Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition Reviews
Date: 2008-05-31
Best Game played in the last five years.
This game is so life-like in its historical representation that it will emerse yourself in 1191 Crusades of the Holy Land. Here you follow the memories of Altair, the head Assassin as he conducts himself on nine missions (Not to mention a hundred side missions that you can enter freely of your own will). I can see this game engine use in other simulations, like Shinobe of Japan, or even a Bourne Supremacy game. The details are amazing, masses of people interact and the slightest mishap will draw you into an incounter. Fight or flee. Its your choice. One aspect of fascination is the computer's prediction on weather you will make a leap from one rooftop or not. Precision was taken to allow a sense of fear as the computer predicts based on your angle and speed. This changes with just a mili-second of decision. It is very real aspect to the game. Even the horses move with realism... A must have.
Date: 2008-05-24
Good, but not great...
Pros:
- looks amazing
- fun to kill with swords and knives
- most assassinations are interesting and fun
Cons:
- at times the controls can be maddening, like when you want to disengage from a fight
- somewhat repetitive up until the last assassination
- can get confusing sometimes at what you are supposed to do
Bottom line - looks great, but the controls ruin it.
Date: 2008-05-22
Entertaining
The story is amazing. The end is a bit abupt, but there's another one coming out to continue the story.
It ran really well on my Mac Pro with 8800GT (I have the older mac pro with the newer vid card) with Vista 32.
Date: 2008-05-13
DirectX 10.1 support, or lack thereof
Assassin's Creed for the PC was released with DirectX 10.1 optimizations which enabled better performance for 10.1-compliant video cards, which are currently only made by AMD/ATI. Ubisoft has now patched the game to disable DX10.1 support, and has no announced plans to reinstate it. Several websites have connected this action with the co-marketing agreement between Ubisoft and Nvidia, suggesting that this is a deliberate and corrupt move to cover up Nvidia's weaker performance on 10.1 games. The net result is that consumers are getting ripped off -- not just ATI card owners, but Nvidia buyers as well, because actions like Ubisoft's encourage Nvidia to cheat rather than improve its products.
Date: 2008-05-07
Good but not Great....
First, the good stuff, great graphics (when my character first rounded the curve overlooking old Jerusalem, I felt butterflies!!! Superbly done guys.) Fight scenes (graphics and action) are also enjoyable- which is the meat and potatoes of what this game is all about. And the storyline is intriguing enough to keep me interested- probably why I originally bought the "director's cut" version. Also, I have Windows Vista Ultimate for my operating system, and it doesn't have any problem with the game.
Now as far as problems with the game, I haven't played it long enough to find all the bugs, but I have some difficulty interpreting the keyboard keys to the console controller buttons (which is an annoyance since the game prompts me to use console controller buttons-I need to read the manual frequently...) Also, I thought that I had saved the game at a certain spot only to find upon reload that I had to start the quest I had almost completed from the beginning. I am learning about the save spots and the locations still as well. I have to be fair and say I haven't fully read the manual, and some of the difficulties I am having may be a result of this. But I do recommend that you get a console controller rather than try to use the keyboard commands- this is really a detractor from the immersion factor....JB
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