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Amazing Game-Amazing Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 41 / 52
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a little skeptical this game would live up to the hype. Then some diminished reviews came around and I was already feeling a let down. Where could they go wrong? Was my thoughts. Well that didn't stop me from purchasing this game. After 30 minutes I was blown away. All skepticism was gone and I was in Gamer Heaven.

Let me start off from the beginning. Yes there is a plot twist and it's pretty bizarre. Just think that your watching a Michael Crichton movie and it will make sense. Playing in the Middle East several hundred years ago is a different idea. It's hard to say what you could expect with this concept.

So what makes this game amazing. Lets start off with the landscape. It's brilliant and beautiful...Really majestic. You don't understand the scope of this game until you start playing. The world is surrounded by several small villages and three large cities. The only way to travese this open terrain with a horse. Fortunately they are about as easy to find as a car in todays society.

What also sets this game apart is the ability to do what you want when you want. There is no clock on you and your not stuck going into a mission. Everything is open based. The character is amazingly fun to control you can scale tall buildings and make amazing leaps of faith. Climbing up a building that is several stories and then leaping to certain doom is breathtaking excitement. This is what games should be about.

Beyond that is a mission based game. Similiar to Grand Theft Auto in style. You can accept simple missions like pickpocketing and protecting citizens to the more main based assasin missions. You can battle soldiers if you want as you have many enemies but it's not really advised. Following the assasin missions can be complex and involve several steps that make the story very intresting. Obviously a lot of time was put into making this top notch.

For anyone who likes open based games with large environments then Assassins Creed is for you. From the majestic peaks to the clustered cities. This is trully a next gen experience. The storyline and incentive program will keep you playing for many hours. Definately a worthwhile gameplay experience. If you want something to keep you busy that doesn't involve guns go out and get Assasins Creed.

Great game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for this game for over a year now, and let me tell you it was well worth it. The gameplay is amazing, it is smooth, the actions are realistic, and the graphics are amazing. Not to mention the battles really become great once you up your level. There is just so much to do in this game and the fact that the developers did not skimp one bit one graphics, story, or depth, is great. The cities are huge and look accurate down to every last crack in the concrete. I could go on and on about how much I love this game, great original story and a must have for a true gamer.

Amazing!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. the amount of detail that they added into everything is astounding. The plot is also very good and the total freedom really adds to the feel of the game. Too many games now are just copying what older games did and thats kind of getting old. This should definitely be a front runner for game of the year.

TOP GAME OF 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had this game one night and here I am at work..counting the minutes until I can go home and play! This game is bloody well ace. SUPERB REALISTIC GRAPHICS! Fast action! Great gripping story line! Free roam like GTA! Ace kill and fighting moves. You lose focus of everything else and this game envelopes you!

Never Look a Gift Artifact in the Mouth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Here's an interesting combination. Take your basic action/adventure platform game, throw in a stealth kill element, set it in a reasonable accurate semblance of the Middle East during the Crusades and you have a game that surprised me enough to merit two playthrus. Keep in mind that this is not a favorite ganre of mine. I thinks the tidbits of fairly accurate eleventh Century history and the lavish illustration and animation are what drew me in, and the glorious fun of slaughtering Knights Templar and punching out irritating beggars kept me going.

You are actually two players. One is Desmond Miles, and escapee from the modern Assassin Cult, who falls into the hands of the Abstergo Corporation. Tis huge drug company wants one thing - Desmond's DNA memories of one of his ancestors. And this is your second character - Altair, a true assassin who fumbles a treasure hunt for an ancient artifact hidden under Solomon's Temple so badly that he is stripped of all rank by his master and given a string of assassination assignments so that he might prove himself again. There is a common thread running through the men he is sent to kill, and thereby hangs a tale.

The Desmond episodes are really pretty lifeless. Considering that he is being subjected to a machine that forces him to relive his genetic memories, and will certainly be killed once the secret is pried out of his cells, Desmond is almost passive in his acceptance of his fate. Fortunately, you will spend little time in the present. Altair may be a cold and calculating protagonist, but he makes up for it in his potential proficiency as a killer and a thief. You will leap about cities, ride wildly through the desert, and, incidentally, experience some breathtaking scenery. The assassinations require as much skill in planning and approach as they do bladework and brute force.

Be warned though, the complaints about the missions being repetitive are not unmerited. Each quest means a run through the desert, and a set of mapping and information gathering activities that vary only because the three main settings (Damascus, Acre, and Jerusalem) are different. The only real variations are the assassinations. But all the activity, in which you can set the pace instead of the evil game designer is fun, assuming you like slaughter. And if you don't, this isn't really the game for you. The assassinations are all different though and there are moments of great satisfaction when a villain impales himself on your hidden dagger.

Another plus for the game is it's historical context. Most of us Westerners have a vision of the Crusades as a collection of heroic deeds by white Anglo-Saxon Catholics in hard shells. The truth is much more complex than that, and Assassin's Creed makes it clear that there was a good deal more corruption and cruelty (by all the participants) than there was heroism. I found this eye opening, and this may be the first game to awaken my normally dormant interest in history.

The game plays well on the Sony PS3. I experienced only a few hang-ups and action is quite fluid, although load times can be atrocious. I did discover one feature that exists in the XBOX 360 version that isn't in the PS3 game -- one the XBOX the game keeps track of your achievements, major and minor, and assigns you a score. It's a minor lack, but one I would have enjoyed having.

This game will be awesome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 71
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The first time I saw the trailer to this game, I was like HOLY CRAP, this game was gonna be awesome. Now I've watched every trailer, every dev. diary, everything to possibly read or watch over this game becuz I'm hooked. I cannot wait till it comes out, which is in August, I think. The next-gen graohics are freakin' unbelievable. The website is amazing. Everybody is crazy for this game. When they showed the actual gameplay for the first time running on the Xbox 360, and they showed her riding towards the city (you play as a man named Altair, who has been inducted into the Assassin's League, and get your finger cut off, to have a hidden knife placed there) on a horse, and climbed up a building, showing different ways to get to your target (everything that sticks out 2 inches or more is interactice) and scouts out the man she has to kill. She then climbs down the building and hides in with a group of monks waling by to get close to his target, then she kills him. She then does like a wallflip type dill, and runs like mad, pushing, yes I said pushing (when you walk by people you just push them aside, but if your running by them you throw them down, and they might run after you, and try to run you down too. That's what they've been working so hard on this game, the A.I. It's so impressive. Like if you kill a man's wife, when she's sleeping, and the man finds out that it was you, he will hunt you down till your dead, or until he's dead, also. Stopping at nothing. She then cuts down a wodden platform which blocks the way of the gards, then starts running off towards the entrance, where a gate comes down anad blocks his way, then he dies. In the game, there is no health bar, every amount of damage that you take is real, so if you get stabbed with a sword even once, you're pretty much dead!!! The game is so detailed, and is historically acurate. It has the cities Jeruselum, Acre, and like one or 2 more. So if you see a building in the game, it was actually there in real life, during the Third Crusade, which is when the game takes place. They worked with a historian to get everything historically acurate. Everything's cool, and I can't wait till' it comes out!!! I will write more reviews later on!!!

Worth the $60

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Awesome game, end of story. It has great graphics, great voice acting, a great story(so far at least), and it's darn fun to play. It's one of the most highly anticipated games of the season, and it's definitely one of the best.

OMG this game is so good.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just got my copy last night. I sat and played for about 7 hours straight and was completely amazed at how much detail there was. Overall it is a really good game and would highly recommend it to any one that like playing video games

Amazing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

nothing but positive feedback for this game, buy it, cause it's great. and if you have any problems with it freezing, just make sure you have the latest version installed, as im sure the system, before you start the game, will tell you to do so.

A must have this year!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Brilliant game, lots of fun. It's like a little of mixture of gta, prince of persia and hitman.
...what are you waiting for? Just buy the game already!!!!

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