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Daughter Loves This Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My teenage daughter loves this game. The Star ratings are hers. Games that appeal to girls (but don't have a silly Barbie theme) are hard to come by. My daughter really enjoys playing this. It's a good motivator to get her to get her homework and chores done :)

A Beautiful Work of Art, a Sorely Dissapointing Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Amazon asks how fun is the game. I say one star.
Amazon asks how is the game overall, I say two stars.

Why?

Assassin's Creed was hyped so well that I ran out opening weekend to buy it. I knew nothing about the game, the character, or even the overall purpose. But game reviewing sites said "10 out of 10!!" "A Must-Have for next-gen console owners."

Once again, these commentators have looked the other way in favor of advertising income and industrial "[...] kissing." Assassin's Creed is almost a 100% complete flop.

The opening movies and even the game itself absolutely mesmerizes gamers with a lush, gorgeous 3D environment. Cities are packed with citizens moving about, talking to each other, and interacting with your character. The visuals give this game everything it needs to be a blockbuster movie. Thus the "overall" two stars. However as a game it falls far short of the mark.

Gamespot.com said that there are "tons of things to do" in the cities of Assassin's Creed. I found two things to do - rescue citizens and climb towers. Both get real old real fast, the latter only remaining interesting by the stunning views provided by sometimes-dizzying heights. The core mission aspects of the game are deplorable - they require you to pickpocket notes from conspirators, or sit on benches to eavesdrop on coversations. Especially frustrating are missions where a fellow member of your creed asks you to make assassinations on his behalf because "my leg hurts," and by the way, "please hurry - I have to go to the market..." Sadly, the game wouldn't let me assassinate THAT guy...

The game hypes that you can make assassinations from cover and immediately blend back into the crowd - your identity and crime never being known. This is true, but only of random killings within the cities. The actual target assassinations are never allowed to go that smoothly. Chaos inevitably assumes, and you're left with a 5 minute run through town trying to lose your pursuers, only to sit on a bench and watch them run by. If law enforcement had ever been this stupid, we'd have burned our own cities to the ground years ago.

Lastly, the game requires you to sit through mind-numbingly boring narratives from other characters - both from the characters you are to assassinate, and your leader who gives you your assignments. You have to sit through these every time, whether you have to repeat a mission, or "go back in time" to earn extra stats, etc. There is no "skip" option. Pair this with the requirement of collecting well over 100 flags scattered all about the map with absolutely no benefit whatsoever except to Xbox 360 owners who can earn achievements from doing so, and you end up with a game that is truely uninspired and flat-out boring.

After a few hours of gameplay, I decided to wrap up the core missions of the game so as to earn the maximum Xbox 360 achievements I could, and then promptly returned the game to get the maximum trade-in value I could.

Assassin's Creed is indeed a must-buy, especially if you really like games that are completely lacking in content, completely without challenge yet persistently frustrating, all wrapped up in a visual masterpiece with a pretty box.

Rent it. You'll reap all of its benefits and be tire of it before Blockbuster even wants it back.

Assassin's Creed - Beautiful, Boring, But Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm probably about to rehash what everyone else has said but I figure I might as well (if the game is this repetitive I might as well be too).

Firstly, the game is beautiful. It truly is in every sense of the word. The music helps pull you into the game, the scenery is amazing, and once you've climbed a few of the towers you'll notice the city and general countryside is as well.

The thing is once you've climbed one tower you generally have a pretty decent idea of how beautiful it is and climbing nine others is pointless. However, climbing towers and assisting men and women being beaten up in the streets seems to be the majority of the game. There are also mini missions revolving around pick pocketing, listening in on conversations, and beating up people for information but they too get repetitive quickly.

Combat is enjoyable but once you get the hang of it really easy, especially with the parrying ability. I remember attacking a swarm (10 or so) guards all at once. I managed to easily kill all of them which seems a bit strange because despite how skilled a man is I don't think he could take a small platoon down himself. Especially if you consider the nature of this game it would make more sense if you were more skilled but if in situations such as that you wouldn't be so overpowered. Your role is to hide in the shadows not act as a hooded fashionably challenged Zoro.

In general it's a nice concept and interesting to play but it's nothing to get too excited about. The greatest part of this game has to be just playing through town with no set goal killing off someone and hiding. While it sounds like something an adolescent would enjoy it's fun to just see how people respond.

All that said, it was a fun game off and on. I enjoyed the beginning, got tired of it, continued playing, and got even more tired of it. It could have been made better but it does reach out into an area that formerly was not really well defined so for that purpose it at least opens the door to future games of this type which hopefully will be more enjoyable.

How has this not been reviewed yet?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, I just noticed this hasn't been reviewed yet, which seems odd, so here's a quick review, just for the sake of itself, since this is an interesting, quality game that deserves a little notice.

This game has a lot going for it, and clearly the designers worked hard on it to make a good game that's a little bit different from the ordinary. I've seen reviews on other sites where they often mention that the game is repetitive, and this is true and probably its major downfall. The fact is, it's got a lot of attention to detail, and things like a button specifically for gently pushing through a crowd is just really unique and makes the game stand out. The setting in the holy land during the crusades is a great idea, and the fact that it has kind of a super- or sub-story in the modern world makes it even more interesting. If you've seen the trailer for this game (which is the start screen FMV) you can see some of the characteristic game mechanics, and it's really cool playing as this assassin leaping through rooftops and jumping off the tops of churches and mosques, but the fact is that there is a certain number of activities available to you, and you go over them again and again. But if you like it, as I did, are looking for something a little different, and have a certain measure of patience required for stealth games, you can look past its flaws.

WOW

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Holy cow this game rocks. I'm not that far into it and I can already tell this is "one of those game" like others before it this is a game that will set a bar and hopefully challenge developers to reach it. It just feels so natural and the environment looks so lived in and dirty but in a good way. It sounds awesome and best yet custom soundtracks (That rocks) it's still early yet but if what I have played is any indication HOLY COW the best is yet to come

assassins creed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son loves this game.
He says its a great game and worth every penny.

Save Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me preface this by saying that I have not read any of the other reviews for this game here on Amazon, so I have no idea what everyone else is considering the pros/cons. This is just my observations from playing the game that, I am sorry to say, I paid full retail price for. It should also be noted that I did not finish the game.

Let's start with the good:

Graphics: The graphics in this game are simply amazing. By far the best I have seen in a console game, ever. Even without playing it on an HD television, I thought that the designers did an amazing job with the scenery. Just climb to to the top of any of the look-out points in one of the cities and you'll see what I mean. Simply amazing.

Controls: The controls were very intuitive, not requiring any adjustmant time to get used to at all. That was a high point, as many games now require you to play with the controls a little bit before getting right to the action. There was none of that with this game.

Now on to the bad. Let me just say that I feel many of these items to be subjective, and I'm sure many other people could dismiss some of these and enjoy the game. I could not.

Story/Gameplay: The story itself was decent. Without giving anything away, I thought that it was an interesting premise to be looking at these events through the eyes of an ancestor. However, the part of the story that really irritated me, and more or less ruined the game for me, was how repetitive that the game got. It amounts to:
1. Travel to city
2. Report to local bureau chief
3. Perform several "Investigation" tasks
4. Go back to bureau chief
5. Locate and assassinate target.
Seriously, I am supposed to do this eight times? No thanks, it stopped being interesting after the second time that I had to do it.

Realism: Try walking into your local shopping center with a couple of swords hanging from your belt, and several knives strapped to your back in plain view. You'd be lucky to walk out of there alive after the local police got called out. But this is exactly what you do in this game. And even worse, the guards don't care! Seriously now, how could someone like that possibly hope to blend into a crowd in a major city. Or, how could they possibly blend in with a bunch of monks as they walk around the city? This is not such a major issue for many people, I'm sure. I just couldn't get past this as I was playing. I mean, you stab someone in the alley, and then all you have to do is walk away slowly with your weapon sheathed and the guards don't think to stop you? Come on!

Finally, you can walk around every guard in the game with all these weapons hanging from your character, but take one step towards a Templar, and they attack you. I thought you were supposed to be able to blend in with the crowds? What happened to being able to effortlessly blending in? This was a major inconsistancy that really irritated me after a while.

In closing, I would save your money. If you absolutely must play this game, rent it. You won't get a major case of buyers remorse that way. Oh, and parents, it's rated M for a reason. Younger kids should defintely not be playing a game where the object is to knife someone in a public place without anyone knowing what just happened. Try looking at something else.

Dreary, flawed history of the Crusades

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 52
Date: December 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll start off describing the gameplay: hack and slash, hack, hack, hack, hack, slash, hack, slash, hack, slash, hack, hack, hack..and so on...it is without a doubt the most boring game I've ever seen. Now added to the terribly repetitive gameplay is a dreary anti-religious storyline. The real historical Crusades was a time of great joy and heroism on both sides. Muslims celebrated the conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin just as Christians had celebrated its recapture in the First Crusade. You won't find anything uplifting in this game, you'll find a game which would rather present that time as a dark horror movie. Oh you trendy gamemakers and your "Atheism will bring us a utopia on Earth" nonsense.

The game is an insult to both Christians and Muslims who have always presented their achievements in the Crusades with a sense of pride and honor. If you like this game why are you wasting your time in this bastardized version of the Crusades? Why not just go play Silent Hill or some other horror game because that is what this plotline is more suited to. This isn't a historically accurate game, this is utopian garbage.

A review, just a review.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a guy, or girl(not like id tell you) that believes any positive or negative hype, but wants to figure it out for myself. When I put in AC into the 360 and saw the beginning on my 42 in. hdtv, I'm gonna be honest, I turned almost pink with joy. I've only beat the first two and a half acheivements(the pick pocket is hella hard, but with such great voce, frame-rate, intuitive control system, and cool theatric kills, not to mention a mind boggling amount of freedom, this is a great game that i really hope will set a bar for all stealth games, because now, if i get anything less, I'll be dissapointed. Love it.

Assassin's Creed

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Religious debates aside (since it is just a game and not reality) the game itself seems to seemlessly put present-day mechanics within the past in 1191 AD. The only complaint (for the PC) would be that the mouse makes it a little difficult to be steady and makes the contextual controls "confusing" to the system. Has anyone else had this trouble?

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