Assassin’s Creed

10 Review to this product

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  Jon Fairley
  November 14th, 2007 on 5:06 am

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  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.
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  Adam James Litwin
  November 14th, 2007 on 10:17 am

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  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.
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  A. C. Ege/Acedoh
  November 15th, 2007 on 10:43 pm

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  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.
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  Jason S.
  November 18th, 2007 on 12:49 pm

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  Assasin’s Creed is one of the most anticipated games during the next-gen era and i can see why. You play as this Assasin named Altair who works for this assasination organization, based on the original Shia-Muslimi Hashasin orginization during the crusades. As historical accuracy goes, this game is accurate. All the leaders you will kill are in fact leaders from that era that “mysteriously” disapeared. This is my evaluation of the Game:

  Graphics: Coming from a PC Extreme gamer, one of the best I’v seen. Of course they are not CRYSIS graphics, but nobody really cares. There are some flaws with the textures, but it won’t really matter.

  Sound: Great. Its fun in surround sound since you can hear people in the croud talking to you from every direction, but I don’t reallly care about sound.

  Gameplay: Its pretty unique. If you’re thinking this Prince of Persia 4, you are mistaken. You do climb stuff, but you can’t take 10 stabs to the chest. The gameplay is pretty realist, and its not for the gamer who enjoys defying reality. You basically go around, and listen to conversations to discover where to kill your targets. You can also go around the city and steal horses. You also do some mini missions, which aren’t really significant to the plot. What makes it less realistic, however, is that you can getaway with the murder of a hundred people by hiding from the guards for a few minutes. But its better than spending the rest of your gameplay hiding from the guards. Basically, its GTA meets PoP meets Hitman.

  So thats my review. This is must buy for the gamer than enjoys the game titles I mentioned. Don’t listen to the IGN review, their review is based on 1 flaw of the game.
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  Andrew R. Holman
  November 20th, 2007 on 2:44 pm

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  Alright, where to begin… I’ve been awaiting this game for quite some time. The first trailer I saw that showcased Altair rappelling down a church steeple into a crowd and then leaping onto a scaffold to lodge a hidden blade into a guard’s throat left me drooling. I was not quite sure what to think other than, “This game will be great.”

  Here we are months later, game in-hand. What’s so great about this Creed? Well, there are a few reasons: It is as visually impressive as I’d hoped. The game play is smoothe, really smoothe. Actions flow seamlessly together, allowing one fluid motion from alleyway-window awnings-rooftops. The story was decent, which surprised me. After playing through the first half an hour or so, I was frightened at what it could have turned into. It finished much better than expected. The voice acting and dialogue is passable, but a bit cliche at times. Essentially, the game moved very well for quite some time.

  Enter the “Ninth Hour”. I am approaching the end of the game with a slew of new weapons and skills. I have honed my abilities to the fullest extent possible with the game. Here’s what I’ve found: 1.) Many complained of slowdown and frame-rate issues, however I never found these to be a problem. Near the end of the game, there is a large crowd at one point. My PS3 slowed for about a minute and continued on fine. Not normal slow, REALLY, REALLY slow. 2.) The actions do get kind of repetitive. What began as a love-lust of the Creed, soured after only a nine hour affair. I felt as though we were just going through the motions. 3.) Graphic pop-in was only noticed once or twice. The game ran great straight through aside from the aforementioned slowdown. 4.) Dialogue from the citizens eventually wanes in its believability due to a combination of about five different things they could say. “My husband’ll hear about you!” (Inside joke you’ll get very soon…)

  So is it worth the $60? I’d say so. The game is definitely worth a play through. The problems were so minute on my system and were overshadowed by the positives included in the package. A truly innovative gaming experience coupled with a decent storyline and minor design issues. If you’re looking for something new, I would give this one a try.
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  Cosmin Stejerean
  November 28th, 2007 on 7:03 pm

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  Well, I bought this game mainly because I was bored and because I needed some new games to try out my new surround sound system. I didn’t really know much about the game ahead of time so I definitely did not buy it because of the ‘hype’. Killing people seemed like a fun thing to do.

  But there are a couple of problems with this game. One is that the game play gets repetitive and boring very quickly. The graphics are AMAZING and a couple of things (like sword fighting and horseback riding) really stand out, but the missions get repetitive and boring. The only thing that kept me playing the game was the story line (which I think is great) so I kept playing to find out how it ends.

  I’ve also experienced occasional freezes in the game (about 2 or 3 total) which was a bit annoying. I was really disappointed by the end. Don’t get me wrong, to story ends with a great twist and all, but then they managed to ruin the ending at the last moment as far as I’m concerned (maybe you like endings that leave OBVIOUS room for a sequel, but I like them to be a bit more subtle).

  All in all I still think it deserves 5 starts due to the amazing graphics, game play and story. But it could get repetitive so you might want to consider renting it.
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  Emeraldfire
  December 5th, 2007 on 3:49 am

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  The Wikipedia review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin‘s_Creed) covers most everything about the game (spoiler alert though). Personally though, I think this game was worth renting. It has weaknesses, such as being kind of repetitive, but the story is interesting, and the graphics are undeniably magnificent. All in all, like Call of Duty or FFXIII, this is one of those games that as a PS3 owner, you’ll need to have played.
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  Charles Dickens "Chuck"
  December 21st, 2007 on 7:39 pm

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  I am not your average gamer. I am 60 years old and have been playing video games of all vintages (starting with Pong)for over 30 years. This game is simply fantastic. The story line is interesting, the game objectives are challenging but not impossible to attain and the graphics are simply amazing. I have always found this period of history (the Crusades) to be fascinating. Assasin’s Creed allows you to immerse yourself in this virtual world of the Middle East where at times you feel you are really there. I don’t recommend this game at all for younger children or even immature teens. There is a significant amount of blood and violence, as there would have been during the historic period virtualized in the game. I had just purchased my PS3 to replace a broken PS2 and have not been able to bring myself to play other games I purchased. If you are a gamer who likes role playing games, I highly recommend Assasin’s Creed.
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  Mandy
  December 29th, 2007 on 3:12 pm

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  I love this game. Not only is it just straight up fun to play but it is by far the best graphics I have ever seen! Just like watching a movie.
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  Marc Ruby™
  February 9th, 2008 on 6:09 pm

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  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.