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Visually Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 19
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.

Not Quite What I Expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure some will decry my statement about this game, but I was disappointed with this game as a whole. Yes, the visuals are stunning and intricately detailed. Yes, it does have some innovative control schemes. It is also very fun to be able to climb any building around. So what do I NOT like about this game???? Well...first of all, after completing 3 assassinations, I found myself doing the same things over and over and over: Come into new town and find several high spots to scout out the surroundings, rescue citizens from harassing soldiers, pickpocket things from certain people in town, eavesdrop on conversations to get information. Everything about this game looks great when you first get into it, but after you get a good ways into the game, it seems you are living in "Groundhog Day". I was really looking forward to the release of this game, so I really don't like giving it a 3. However, after playing through a few levels, I have lost interest in even completing the game. I hate to say it, but this game was a HUGE letdown for me. I would suggest renting it and playing through a couple of towns before buying.

Exactly what I expected from Ubi Soft and nothing more!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Assassin's Creed

Ubi Soft has become known to me as a company that puts out products they promise. When they state the game will display certain features, they deliver in spades. Assassins Creed is no different from this rule. They promised a new distinct control system, done. They promised a diverse and exciting way to explore the open environments they created, done and done. They said this game would make you feel like an assassin with iron in his veins and skill in his actions, well they didnt promise that, but its their too.

This game is a marvel to be seen, with your own eyes, while you control every move on the screen. And I mean every, the controls let you do more than just button mash. You are the assassin. If you own a next gen system, you should own this game. The grace and precision that the lead character, Altair, uses to climb and leap his way through the large cities presented here is in one word, amazing.

Never have I seen anything like this in my years as a gamer. I couldnt stop exploring and killing, because every minute spent, feels new and fresh. I simply adored this game since it was announced and I love it more that I have played it. Dont get me wrong though, the game has a few flaws, but the creators put so much in it, that they are easily either excusable or passed over because you are to busy to catch them cause you are having so much damn fun with what is awesome about it.

Amazing and Stunning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Assassin's Creed is a GREAT ACTION/STEALTH game. Seriously, the control are tight, the graphics are gorgeous and the story are simple a great one. I really recommend to all this game its a great experience for any gamer out there.

Have fun as much I do ^_^

Assassins Creed - Its About Time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Assassins Creed is a pretty solid action game. Controls are smooth, the graphics are great and everything has a nice flow to it. Combat seems to be decent enough yet simple, and the controls are great. Its very easy to play, but with time you can master it. The terrain looks great, and character design is excellent. My only real flaw with the game is that Altairs voice doesn't seem to fit in very well. All in all, its an excellent game and its about time we finally get to play it.

Sadly the game is not polished...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well i like the game, i love the graphics and the gameplay style, but that is when the game is not freezing...and yes it have a lot of framerate issues and bugs. Sorry i was exited for this game and it let me down...

A let down

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Other reviewers have noted that the game feels really repetitive and that they lost interest in completing the game. I agree (I have competed the game so that I could write this review), but want to emphasize that the negative "feel." I feel very disconnected from the character. This results from

(1) his movement ... sometimes he feels heavy and slow, it's frustrating to move him. The free run parts are exciting but they are not that interactive;

(2) the miniquests ... these are redundant, and resort to "timed challenges" to add difficulty which IMO is a bit of a cop-out. The deeper problem is that the mini-quests aren't longer run character choices they're just random events that don't really involve the mission you're doing except you for a few random lines of dialog.

(3) the action/stealth ratio ... I realize bought a game called "assassins creed" I thought the point of the game would be stealth kills and daring escapes. As it turns out, a lot of the kills are not stealth, but after big battles. There's no "economy of violence" principle forcing you to limit your killing (like thief and Splinter Cell had), there's no penalty to you at all for killing, in fact the game guides you to enter into big high-publicity fights. This part of the game just doesn't tick the way it should.

(4) no real risks ... my character has a lot of health. I can battle thirty people and be OK, or jump from a big ledge and lose most of my health only to recover it in a few seconds.

(5) Annoyances ... there is a lot of recurring sound bits. These take me out of the game.

The assassination missions are OK. They do get progressively harder, but more through battle elements than through stealth elements.

The game is a pretty decent fight and explore game, and the cities are pretty and the free-running is fun, but the game design has some major flaws.

I recommend you rent this before you buy it to see how you like it. If you're really interested, I think you'll see a lot of used copies available soon (not all of them played to completion).

It's tedious and short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game's ending is great, you will feel great when you see it, it's a huge plot twist.

The fighting in the game is boring, making the game real easy, if you have problems taking down enemies in this game then you problably aren't good for games at all.

The graphics are out of this world, they're just awesome. The addition of being able to climb anywhere is great, gives a great sense of freedom to the game.

The game is really short, you can end it in less than a day, that would be fine for a shooter, but this isn't a shooter.

It's an average game, not a lot of replay though.

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game is fun and cool.
advantages:
the graphics are really great.
cool way of fighting.
you can climb any building.
great story.

disadvantage:
short story.
too many replays.

Where do we go from here?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In a nutshell, repititious. Once you complete a mission or two, you repeat the same actions over and over. Even the street characters in the various cities (and sections of the cities) are the same but dressed differently, ie, the street beggars, the local thugs, the soldiers, their little spiels. The beggars are especially annoying. Beautiful graphics, great story, love riding the horses and leaping off of tall buildings, but overall, a let down.

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