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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
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Avg. Customer Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 95
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210244215
ASIN: B000NG591G
Release Date: November 16, 2007
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It's easy to see why there was so much fighting amongst the console manufacturers to try and make this game a format exclusive. Where early launch titles may have disappointed this game not only looks like a next generation game but it plays like it too. Taken at face value the story casts you as an Arabic fighter in 1191, out to assassinate the nine Western leaders of the Third Crusade. There is more to the story than that though making it more than simple historical adventure it first seems.Since it's developed by many of the same team behind Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, it's no surprise to find the game using many of the same ideas. With the bold claim that you can climb on or over anything in the game world that sticks out more than two inches, this allows incredible freedom of movement, with a style of acrobatics heavily influenced by Parkour/free running. The game also innovates in terms of combat, with each of the face buttons controlling a different area of the body, rather like a marionette. As such one button controls the feet, one your open hand, one your weapon hand and the other your head. As an assassin stealth plays an important role in the game too, but here it's often a case of hiding in plain sight as you mill around inside large crowds of people. Everyone will react to you realistically though, so if you go around pushing people out of the way, or even killing them, the crowd will react and report you. With stunning graphics and genuinely innovative gameplay this is destined to be one of the most important releases of the year.
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 Rent, dont buy. May 11, 2008
First off, I borrowed this game from a friend. I've completed it and refused to give it back because I love it so much.
Gameplay. The gameplay on Assassins Creed is very fun, and polished off. The game is pretty much composed of 3 stages. Stage one is go to the city and find out who you're supposed to be Assassinating. Stage two is to go around the city completing little sub-missions to find out where your Assassination target is. Stage 3 is finding him and Assassinating them, then running back to your Bureau. Unfortunately, this is repeated for the whole game. If you like repetition in games ( like me) then you'll love this game. If not, you'll complete the first Assassination, get to the second one and realise that you're doing the same thing.
The combat system is alright, but could be much better. Mostly, fighting just involves hammering the X button as fast as possible, but later on as you unlock different abilities you get the options to guard, dodge, counter, chain attack, strong attack, throw, guard-break. There's lots of abilities you can use, but if you're like me you'll choose one ability and repeatedly use it. As soon as you get the counter move, the game might as well put its hands in the air and give up because it makes combat a joke. Hold down guard, and when the enemy is about to attack, press X and you'll peform an awesome counter-attack. These look pretty, as you see Altair ducking and swerving around blades and mercilessly destroying opponents, but it all gets a bit shallow after a while. Amusing as it is to watch Altair slap a soldier round the face and then stab him, it gets to the point that you purposely run from fights just to avoid having to go through the mindless process again.
The AI is quite poor also; in a fight, soldiers will patiently wait their turn to attack you. But sometimes, frustratingly, they'll either be incredibly dim-witted or sharp. On one occassion, you can go up behind somebody, stealth assassinate them and walk off, in plain sight of a guard and he'll stand around shouting 'Who did this?' despite the fact that he saw you kill him. Other times you'll do exactly the same thing, except without a guard in sight and then a guard will spontaniously appear out of an alleyway, accusing you of murder drawing you into a fight.
The graphics for Assassins Creed are some of the best on 360. The character models are well detailed, the massive environments and cities are immense, and each one is packed with life. Sitting on top of a massive watchtower and surveying a city is literally breathtaking. The character animations for Altair are also very well done; climbing up walls looks very natural and doesnt look out of place or forced at all. The sound is also very high quality; the voice acting is perfect, Ubisoft had the accents nailed. When you're walking in a marketplace, you'll hear the massive crowd bustling and echoing off the walls. The noise of weapons clashing sounds realistic, and it's incredibly satisfying to hear the shing of your blade meeting the neck of an unsuspecting soldier.
This is a very good game in esscence, and I dont think most people have experienced it the way they should; most people stop after the 2nd or 3rd assassination because it's all the same. If you persevere and get to the end, you wont be dissapointed. This brings me onto the most important part of this review; if you cant find it cheap, rent it. It's not worth buying because it has no replay value whatsoever. If you're obsessed with collecting, then there are templars and flags scattered everywhere, but there's really not much point in collecting them. If you're the person who can replay games to their heart's content without getting bored, go ahead and buy it. If you're the majority of the gaming population, then rent it for a bit. For what it is, it's not worth the 40 price tag. If you rent it, you can experience a (in my opinion) unmissable gaming experience. Unfortunately most people end up buying it and then selling it on because they got bored. Rent it, complete it, take it back, I guarantee you will not be dissapointed.
Good but has its flaws. May 10, 2008
Many of the complaints about a game is that it is not what you see on the Ad. For this game you have panoramic views of crusader cities, a hooded assassin roaming through the town, leaping off buildings and cutting down his enemies. This game however, is pretty much exactly what you see.
Story is, you are a modern day bar tender? Who has been kidnapped/taken? to some strange place where you are kept in a machine which can access your ancestors memories (You just happen to be an assassin) The reason you have been taken there is because you have information that is needed by your kidnappers.
You may be puzzled by now and you should be. Just what the hell this should have to do with the Crusades or assassins God alone knows but this attempt at being cleaver by the makers of this game just fails miserably. You are stuck listening to some boring story you have no interest in that breaks up the game play and you cant move on from until they finish rabbiting to you.
Other flaws with the game are after assassinating each target you are sent back to Masyif and have to go through the entire village, through the countryside all over again to get to your next target. May not sound like anything important but when you think you have 9 targets you have to do the exact same thing 9 times!
The free running is great. Unfortunately the game can often not keep up with your direction of travel and you can find yourself running up walls, blind alleys and other places you never wanted to go. Another flaw I have found is the inability to switch weapons in mid battle (Or at least until you have been knocked senseless) and on the odd occasion switched from short blade to punching without pressing anything!. We also have the assassination targets. The first thing you will notice is you cant stealth assassinate any of them. Soon as you come near then the guards are alerted and you have to fend off 10 or so guards before you get to your target (Kind of defeats the object then of an assassin) The images you see in the ad are you assassinating Templar's which you do as part of your investigation.
Extras include collecting flags, other tasks or 'investigations' which can drag the game on and on and to be honest are pretty pointless. The makers of this game have obviously took a lot of time and effort in putting this game together (People speaking in French, German, Arabic, Turkish and English for example though for some strange reason Christian Templar's speak Turkish!) But they really needed to put more effort into game play and less into the background.
 What went wrong?? May 6, 2008
A fantistic looking game 1st rate graphics.
It's just a shame when they created these beutiful city's they forgot to add something to do in them.
Nice try, Next time maybe add some gameplay and a plot.
 the higher thet rise the harer they fall May 6, 2008
right first off,
have you noticed how many sencond hand copys of this there are lurking around and no its not because they made too many its because honastly , it sucks , yes the graphics are brilliant and yes free running is cool
but it is not long before it gets annoying you may think oh ill get used to it , no ,you wont , you end up climbing a huge tower to justfall off because it went the opposite way to which you wanted i personaly threw my controller out the window at one point
next there was far too much hype for this game hence the title because the first 2-3 assassinations are cool but the same and you think oh it will change as i gt further and it gets harder there will be more structure to the missions , there isnt it just stays the same over and over again and its not long till you lose hope but there is a hope ... NOT !!! its a waste and because so many people trade them in your getting jack all back for it which leaves you about 25quid out of pocket just for opening the polythene wrapping i am so deppressed after this with all those bad memories i am going to go drive along the pavement on gta4 =[
Actually not bad... May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hurray, a new game which actually looks and plays as it should. I write a few reviews on Amazon and I always seem to be saying the same thing....not good enough!!! But refreshingly Assassins Creed breaks the mould. I think its a great game. Firstly it looks as a next generation game should look, the graphics are truly beautiful and I love how they have made the main character move. He runs well, fights well and even walks with a real moody swagger...awesome. The enviroments are truly amazing and all the different cities you visit have a different feel.
There's only one draw back to this game, and that is why didn't the developers just make it set in the time of the crusades? Instead they made it set in the present day using a modern day character linked up to a machine which reads his ancestors memories from the time of the crusades?? Weird!! But this is the only draw back I can find, and no matter how many times you do it, the leap of faith plus walking up to a guard and doing a stealth kill on him never fails to bring a smile to your face which more than makes up for the games faults...a great game.
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