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Very Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 28 / 58
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I reserved this game about 3 or 4 months before it came out. All the previews and reviews made my anticipation grow. When I finally got it and played it, at first I was a little taken aback by the "twist". But I got over it, figuring the gameplay as Altair will be great. Not so much.

Graphics are extraordinary. Very fluid, easy to use controls...but thats where it ends. The game is extremely repetitive. I expected more in-depth swordplay control. Once you get the counter-attack move you are basically unstoppable. No need to run and hide. Just counter-attack your opponents and kill them with one move. The AI is no smarter than any other game out, in fact there are alot dumber than most next-gen games, like Call of Duty 4 for example. They rarely attack simultaneously. They wait for you to kill thier comrade then its their turn to be countered and killed in one move.
All in all Im very dissapointed. I think most of these reviewers were anticipating the game so much they have convinced themselves its a great game and dont want to belive how bad a game it really is. Or maybe the graphics are so good they dont notice how shallow the game is. If anybody wants a barely used Assasins Creed game check for mine on ebay. Im going back to Call of Duty 4 and Ill wait for GTA4. Assasins Creed sucks!

Big Hopes, No Delivery

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 38
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Besides Halo 3, this was my most anticipated game for this year. I kept checking and checking websites wanting to know the release date for this game, because they kept pushing it back. Anyway, once I got my copy and immediately played it, I feel in love with the game. After about 3 hours of playing, I was ready for something new. This game had so much potential, with its breathtaking graphics and fighting elements! Why did they ruin it by making it so repetitive and mundane?! In order to assassinate someone, you must first "investigate" the surrounding area. The investigation is the same for EVERY assassination!!! Talk about lame! Why would I want to do the same 4 things every time: 1)pickpocket someone; 2)overhear a conversation; 3)interrogate someone (which is basically punching them until they talk your ear off); 4)kill some guards for an informant then he'll tell you what he knows (killing the guards was so simple that it was boring just to do it). Then, to top it off, the assassinations weren't that great. The trailers of the game make the assassination look beautiful, a thing of art. The assassination in the game turns into a slug-fest with about 20 guards and then you get to the main target and chop him a couple times.

I bought this game thinking I would have it forever, so I could play it whenever for instant gratification. After beating the game once, I'm headed over to EB Games to trade it in. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, IT IS A RENTAL!!!

Dissapointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics, world, story, and all that are wonderful. But the game as a whole is stupid, repeditive and basic. They could have done so much more with it. If I could do it over again I would rent it and then have realized what a horrible waste of money it is. This game sucked.

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.

Not worth the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This all in all is a terrible game. It is not fun and you only kill about 20 people. You sneak around and listen to peoples conversations. This is probably my least favorite 360 game.

Great graphics, irritating gameplay - worst next-gen title I've played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off: I was very disappointed in the complete lack of immersion of AC. From the box I thought I was buying a game set in the 1100's. But no, the ridiculous concept is "genetic time travel" regarding a kidnapped bartender, so expect little digital garbles, a virtual reality theme and instead of health points, the "synchronization meter", instead of simply loading a save you are loading a memory, etc., etc. In other words: there is absolutely no sense of immersion. And never mind the worst opening of a game in gaming history. I seriously got a headache and had to stop looking at the tv - in general the fuzzy, digital trippy stuff was hard to deal with.

The story isn't worth talking about but worse, there is no real gameplay (as far as I'm concerned). You may push a button here or there, but I honestly made it through most of the tutorials without much looking at the screen and just mashing whatever button they asked me to. You can climb even the hardest of walls/buildings with little effort. There are quests where you just have to climb up the same type of tower over and over. It wasn't fun the first time but you have to do it a dozen times over. At least you don't have to climb back down - you jump into a bail of hay. Wow, games have come a long way, eh?

Combat wasn't any more fun. The fact its a stealth game simply drags any action on longer than need be. The assassinations were irritating and guess what: that's the game. I decided I'd try skipping the assassinations and the climbing quests since it wasn't any fun - well, there's little else to do in the game. That's it.

And now for The Worst Idea in a Game. Ever: The "gentle push" button. Yes, there's a button used just to gently push people out of the way. Yeah, its as exciting as it sounds. If the "gentle pushing" gets too heart-pounding of an experience there's always the "blend" button that has your character hold his head down. That's almost as exciting as gently pushing people out of the way and several steps more exciting than say, reorganizing your sock drawer or filing your fingernails. I found holding the green xbox button for several seconds ended up being more desirable. The "shut-down console" option solves many of AC's problems.

Also get used to looooooooooong scenes where the character you're puppeteering just stands there in clouds, doing nothing. Seriously. Just wait and something trippy will happen until the next dream/memory/whatever loads.

I can't imagine what the developers of this game were thinking. I'd be wary to ever get another Ubisoft game - maybe its just the Montreal group.

I put it up for sale the day after I bought it. Other than the graphics I can't say a single good thing about it. Want a stealth game? This isn't the one. So 1 star seems generous but its the lowest you can choose.

Cool graphics hide terrible plot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: January 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I beat this game in like 10 hours. Not including the brutally two hour long tutorial. Your first mission is cool, but when you realize you only got like 8 more and they are just like it, it's a huge letdown. This whole game was a huge letdown. Side missions are the same, and boring. And the big plot twist is obvious from the opening scene. So I turned around and sold it to make my most of my money back, instead of waiting to spend more money when they release downloads. Don't buy this game, it's a waste of money. Rent it, cause it can be fun, but you can beat over the weekend and return it.

Worst 360 Game Yet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this game three times and couldn't run to sell it on ebay fast enough. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen and it never did. I had high hopes for this game. I've been playing games since Pong. This was seriously one of the biggest disappointments I've experienced in my lifetime of playing video games.

Dont waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Played this game for about 30 minutes before i realized its one of the worst games i have ever played. Dont waste your time or money.

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.

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