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Rent It..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is graphically Excellent and i love scaling along buildings and leaping from various objects...but after about 5 hours, this game gets EXTREMELY repetative...mainly because you cant just locate your target and kill him...you have to do a bunch of pointless things FIRST. youv got to scale about 3 buildings and reach the highest building...then locate an informant who knows who you must kill..but they run you in circles and have you play USELESS Pick Pocket and Interogation side quests...THEN there are street informants who have you kill more people...and a bunch of other run-around, and thats on EVERY mission. half the time, i didnt even kno where to go, it was so unclear...

if they would have just let you know from the JUMP who you had to kill...and let you LOCATE that individual on your own without all the useless side missions (like everyone thought this game would be), i would have a higher tolerance for this game. but its definately worth the RENTAL..or find it used at Gamestop and return it within 7 days for a full refund. if your into games that take place around this Time frame, i highly suggest Fable for xbox. i picked that game up when i took this back and i love it.

iLL .

OVER HYPED UNDER DEVOLPED

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The holiday season is always filled with Hype and big games for the holiday season Assasians Creed is not it. After a holiday season with games such as Gears of War, this is a dissapointment as a Next-Gen games. The story is very indepth and interesting but who cares if the game is uterly repetive. You do the same thing over and over and it gets old very quickly. Coming from Ubisoft who did a great job with the Prince of Persia you would have to think there biggest hyped game on the 360 and Ps3 would be excellent. Instead its a medicore game that will keep gamers licking there wounds until Grand Theft Auto or Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out and shows what next gen games could be. Save your money on this one and rent it, you appericate the advice, once you beat it you will be quick to trading this one in.

Assassins Creed-why i gave it 3 stars

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Assissins Creed is an interesting game, it starts out fresh and unique, graphics are good, voice work is good, the story seemed some what interesting. Then BAMN! 4 hours into it, you fall into the "broken recored syndrome". Everything begins repeating itself and the games' flaws start to surface.

The Good

-Graphics, no pop in what so ever and a very loooooooooong drawl distance, impressive. Small particals float in the air in dusty rooms.

-Climbing buildings seems oddly natural, and ofcourse, the time period and setting are very nicely done.

-Voice work is well done. Dark and foreboding.

-Actually got horse riding in a game where it's fun and looks natural.

The Bad

-Character movements are a mixed bag. Climbing and jumping looks good, but fighting and dialogue scenes seem choppy and look very unnatural.

-Why must i climb all the freakin look outs to continue with missions? Climbing aspect of the game is fun when you don't have to do it, but sucks when you constantly do.

-Characters movements almost seem to slow. There were countless times when i was running from the enemy trying to escape to the rooftops when my character seemed to slow going up the side of a house, or got stuck at an awkward place, giving the enemy time to shoot arrows or throw rocks to knock me down. Kind of annoying.

The Ugly

-Why at the beginning of every mission do i have to run through an entire level to get to a horse?

-Lack of variety

-There is a certain surprise in the game that you find out shortly after playing, this actually took away from the experience i thought. Why couldn't the game just be what the trailers made it out to be???

If this was out of ten i would give assissins creed a 7 out of 10. By no means is this game crap, you can tell many talented people spent long hours on this, so many things are done right it's a shame that crucial areas were over looked, like keeping the gamer interested, switching up the missions, throwing in a boss fight or two to give you a sense of progress. This game had so much potential. I wouldn't buy this game, it's a good rental though.

Pretty but dull.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You want to love this game, but you can't. On the surface it looks fantastic but there is no endearing qualities below the surface. Look at the game from a summer blockbuster movie perspective and you may enjoy it a little more, very pretty but no substance.
Relish your first assassination, because after that the game is the same for the other eight kills. If the game was not touted to the customer as next gen, I would be okay with it. This game would not look out of place on the Xbox: however, I expect more from a Xbox 360 game. Look at BioShock it is amazing!
Buyer beware.
BioShock
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition

Cloning Machine

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although the graphics and the theme of the game had caught my attention--the actual game quickly bored me to tears. After killing the 100th cloned gaurd, and saving the 20th citizen (all citizens say one of three lines when saved), I realized that the developers spent way too much time on graphics and not enough time ON THE ACTUAL GAME. Save your money, go buy prince of persia or mass effect.

Could have been much better

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

Assassin's Creed was seemingly made by three separate groups who didn't talk talk to each other much. The Graphics Department and the Writing Department got the memo that this was going to be one of the best games ever. Unfortunately the Gameplay Department missed that memo.

The result is a game with an awesome story, very good graphics and sound, but bad and borderline horrible game play. Fighting turns into a button mashing mess with very little strategy or technique.

The game quickly becomes a repetitive bore where your only reason for playing is to get to the next part of the story.

Graphics=Great
Sound=Good
Story=Great
Gameplay=Poor

A perspective on the negatives

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After reading the different reviews, I am submitting mine to give a perspective on the negative opinions. I have completed the game and enjoyed every second of it. My recommendation, buy it. It is a similar to the stealth games, Splinter Cell and Thief, which I enjoyed.

If you play primarily FPS games and your tendency is to play fast and take the shortest path to the end, this game is probably not for you. This game is most enjoyable if it played the way the designer intended, slowly, by experiencing all the quests before the assassination. If fast is your style of gaming it will become repetitive because you are just checking off a mission to get the finish and not enjoying the scope of it all. It is only necessary to complete two investigations before permission is granted for the primary assassination.

What I liked, everything. You can read other reviews about the good stuff so I won't repeat them here. I thought BioShock was a wonder to behold, but this equals it on many levels. Some of my favorites:

- Finishing moves with the assassin's blade during fights.
- Throwing guards off rooftops and listening to the commotion below.
- Killing crusaders in low profile mode
- Knife combos
- Strolling the streets looking for trouble
- A high profile kill in a crowded street

What I disliked. I didn't dislike anything, except for tedium of collecting flags, I just think some things could have executed better. Here they are:

- The overall storyline and the unique story for each assassination are great, but there is little local story or background information for each city. This could have been an opportunity for a lot more depth.
- The 2nd to last end boss(s) fight was a little cliché, but I still enjoyed it.
- The ending could have been tidied up so I actually knew it was the end; so many comments are valid there.
- I wish there were more to do down among the streets so to spend more time there.
- There were some low res textures and character clipping, but I noticed it maybe 5-10 times throughout the whole game. That's a non-issue for me. For every visual flaw there are plenty of visual examples of beauty.
- The fighting was unique and I never got tired of it. There were good variety of moves and weapons. Try fighting with your assassin's blade and watch your counters with that. I prefer the timing method because I'm tired of playing twitch-response games. The best parts were the counter and finishing moves. The camera would frame them as you finished for your viewing pleasure and, yes, sometimes the view would end up behind a post or foliage. This happens when the fight was in a tight space with walls and the camera got irritating at times.
- Knife throwing was clunky. If you are not targeting perfectly the knife would hit something in the way. Targeting can switch to the wrong target when you are under duress and can frustrating.
- The missions before the assassination were enjoyable. The eavesdropping and pickpocket missions are easy and draw you into the game. The intimidations became more difficult as the game went alone when ruffians would join the fray. The mini-assassinations were the best. You had to try different approaches to beat the time limit. The problem I had with all the missions were that they were plotted on your map after climbing a tower and syncing. If they gave you a count or a general area so you would have to go look for these missions and get more engaged in the streets. I thought they were too easy to find. Oblivion did it the best. You had to walk around and talk to people to discover information.
- I wanted a save system. I wanted to try the 9 assassinations with different approaches and see how they worked out. I would actually die on purpose so I could try again.

You have not played a game like this before, ever. This is a stunning game. I never got tired of looking out over the cities from all the different points or fighting. It was total immersion just walking the streets. It felt like a living city with all the people walking around and the sounds that go with it. The smooth physical movements of Altair makes this game better than all others. What I liked best is that I could enjoy watching him in action without concentrating on landing or grabbing perfectly like other games. I would wander around just to create an opportunity to experience them.

The review scores swing wild because this game crosses boundaries in play style. Different players had different expectations and reacted accordingly. I highly recommend the game. I could easily suspend my disbelief and engage in the story and not be disconnected during the game because of any poor design. If you spend time looking for inconsistencies you will find them. If you compare against perfection you are going to find flaws. I forgave them all and played a great game.

Good for the first 3 missions

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because a friend of mine told me it was a really good game. After purchasing it I was anticipating playing it when I got home because of the positive talk I had heard about it.

Game-play Pros:
The game-play is great in the sense that it gives you free-roam abilities and lets you choose what you want to do in which order besides the assassin missions. I jumped into the game enthusiastically looking for the different flags, pickpocketing, fighting soldiers, eaves-dropping, filling out missions for lesser assassins, running across rooftops killing sentries that were standing watch. I enjoyed hunting for the flags. It took me awhile to find all the Masyaf flags in the Masyaf Kingdom but wasn't too excited when I only got an achievement of collecting all the 20 flags. I liked the cinematography when you counter-attack a soldier and stick him with your sword or slice into his neck with your sword. It was very good for being a rated M game. I had fun sneaking up on soldiers and just assassinating them wherever I felt like it and then sit down on a bench right next to it while the soldiers came by and wondered what happened was pretty funny. I was excited when I got the throwing knives because I run across rooftops and kill every soldier i got in sight and if he fell down hear the people gasp in horror.

Assassins Creed has an amazing number of people in the cities just mulling around, walking here and there. It is pretty lifelike to look anywhere and see people living as if they were real.

Game-play: Cons
I didn't necessarily like that you had to ride a horse everywhere although very realistic. The missions are quite repetitive and I got bored with just a number of things such as pick-pocketing, saving citizens, eaves dropping, and even stealth assassination. For example, when you eaves drop and follow the guy to steal a map or something, and once you've got it you can be standing right next to him and he won't know you took it. The victim also does the same action-motion every single time whoever it might be. It got so easy to pickpocket thugs and you could hold B to pickpocket them but if they weren't walking you would just go in circles around the thug. I got so annoyed at the woman who would beg you for money I would just assassinate them. They would get in the way constantly when I was trying to follow a suspect and that is (although a real aspect of that time) a very annoying part of the cities. After completing 3 of the assassination missions I got back to the Castle and only got 8 throwing knives while expecting a new weapon like a crossbow or something better.

Graphics:
I have to give an A+++ for the graphics seeing that I am a Professional Graphic Designer myself. When I first started playing the game I was blown away by the views, and the realistic structure of the world I was playing in. I especially liked the cities. They were very spectacular from the viewpoints. Altair is very expertly conveyed. The character Altair must have been a lot of work to produce and they must have put a huge amount of time into making him look real.

All in all I have to give this a three star rating because it bored me after awhile of playing it. Everything seemed to become redundant and repetitive. For awhile it kept my interest but since I am more into FPS games such as halo 2 and halo 3 I suppose that I will stick with that for now. So to all you role playing lovers I would suggest this game. Enjoy.

An Entirely New Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just beat Assassin's Creed yesterday, and I have to say that it is an experience unlike any other.

Grapics: A+

Plot: A-

Controls: B

Replay Value: C+

Game Difficulty (AI): A

Sound/Voice Acting: A

Game Format: Sandbox (any objective can be completed in any order, unless it is directly related to the main plotline)

Concept: A+

Overall: A

This is the best game I have ever played. For some, the stealth required might become tiring, and for sure it can be aggravating in the latter stages of the game when you are observed more intently by the guards, but as long as you have some persistence and good instincts, then you will have no problem getting through each objective. The game is incredibly fun, and the AI is perfect. Everything is challenging, but its never ridiculously hard. The final assassination took me three tries, but I did it.

Bottom line, this game is amazing. Also, there is garaunteed to be a sequel title, so that makes me happy. Hope this review helps sway people into buying the game. I know I'm not objective at all, but you really, really, really should consider purchasing this game if you want 50-60 hours of great entertainment.

Also, a tip for those who purchase.... look around the lab. You will find things.

Good looking, but repetitious game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't going to get this game because of all the mixed reviews, but I broke down and got it because there was nothing else left that I wanted to play. First of all, this game has good graphics, big maps, and seems mostly well polished. The game is also long, but not in a good way. It is repetitious, which makes it boring. You have 9 people to kill, but you must perform 3 investigations each time. This involves thngs like eavesdropping and pickpocketing. Before that, you must first climb various towers to discover your investigations. THe climbing is always the same-there is no puzzle solving like in Prince of Persia. On top of that, you have to ride back to your boss after each kill. This is a long and pointless trip. Combat is also slow and clumsy and you have to constantly walk around slowly to blend in and not alert guards. All of this adds up to an extremenly boring game and therefore I cannot recommend it.

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