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 Fair..... November 18, 2007
PS2 Bruce (Torrance, CA USA)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is an OK game. It's difficult sometimes, but I always try not to judge games based upon release hype. I have had a 360 for about a year and a half, and usually buy all the major releases, especially if they get positive reviews from users on sites like this (I don't put much stock in "professional" reviewers or game magazines, because they are usually beholden in some way to the publisher).
With all that said, this game is fair. The graphics are, indeed very good. The control scheme is very different, and takes some getting used to. Once you get it down, you can indeed scale big buildings jump across rooftoops and all that. But my two disappointments are:
1. Why is this rated "M"? There's hardly any blood.
2. I dislike any "Freeform" game that frowns on killing innocents. I don't bother them all the time; but I do like knowing I can, if I want to be "evil."
3. I make this complaint in most of my reviews, and I'm going to repeat it here (and in a couple of new reviews I'm planning to write)-with today's modern games, all that technology, advanced programming next gen blah blah yada yada yak yak WHY CANT THERE BE A QUICKSAVE?????? Why do we have to be subjected to "checkpoints" and "autosaves?" It is frustrating as HELL to get almost to the end of a level, get killed and have to start again from the "checkpoint" miles, or an hour back. STOP IT!
So, except for the facts that it's not freeform enough, not gory enough, and has no quicksave, Assasins Creed is fair. I didn't see any glitches, and don't mind the "Bruce Lee Movie" style attacks (e.g. twelve guys attack you, and each wait politely till you kill the guy you're fighting with before they attack), because I'm not so good at combat and would get killed more. I would not recommend buying without renting first.
 one of the best this year November 14, 2007
Raul Duke (Pittsburgh)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
Assassins creed deffinitely lives up to the hype. a great story (technically two), great voice acting, great gameplay and completely amazing environments come together to make one of the best achievements in videogames yet.
the person you actually play as is a descendent of Altair's some time in the distant future. your being held prisoner and forced to undergo a matrix like experiment to try and uncover information concerning your anscestor. the main gameplay takes place in Altair's world of course.
you play as a head assassin struck down from your position because of a certain mistake. now you've got to work your way back up through the ranks and earn back your reputation. theres a lot of political/religious tie-ins. obviously, that was tyhe cause of nearly all the violence in those (and these) times. the christians, muslims, and jews all having little squabbles throughout the land.
the platforming aspect of the gameplay couldnt have been handled better. you'll be fluintly dodging and leaping from rooftop to rooftop. the climbing is perfect. any little ledge or crack can be grabbed and used to your advantage in the ascent.
combat plays out in the same puppet like fashion all the other controls do one face button to control his head, two control his arms and the botton one controls leg actions, you can switch between different weapons stances and unarmed from the directional buttons. the right face button controls armed hand attacks and the left cant be used to grab and throw enemies (great on rooftops).
the crowd AI/interaction isn't bad, but a little questionable at times. your current persona and all your actions affect the state of your surroundings. stand on a roof in clear view and people are bound to stop and look. randomly throw someone into a wall, the people close by are probably gonna run away. if you pull out your sword and randomly start killing your bound to have what looks like a small riot on your hands. although ive found you can casually walk up to people and kill them with your hidden blade without notice if your slick about it.
the graphics are completely insane. to achieve this level of detail on a world so huge and teaming with life creates something that you have to see to believe. it would take hours upon hours to completely search this world and find all there is to find. this game could easily consume as much time as any good RPG. with so many games comming out that i can run through in a day, this is a major breath of fresh air. realistic recreations of anchient cities like Jerusalem and Damascus are your typical place of business. you can also explore the fields and deserts between the cities in this breathtaking world.
great gameplay with a great story and an amazing gameworld come together in a gem that shouldnt be overlooked by anyone with any interest in video games. 10/10
 Solid Mixed Bag November 15, 2007
J. Hoover (Chicago, IL)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Yes, commercials and "sneak peaks" are supposed to hype a game up to the point where we all turn into zombies and line up for hours in mindless anticipation for hours upon hours of entertainment.
Unfortunately, the buildup to this game, well, seemed to have left some details out.
The Good:
Nice control scheme and sandbox style play. It didn't take too much time to realize exactly what your character is capable of and start truly utilizing the environment to your advantage. As the beginning tutorial starts to play out, I started to wonder if I would be able to retain all of the controls they were throwing at me, but the controls are actually quite intuitive.
You can't button mash your way to victory, even if you blaze head-on into a fight. This forces you to stay on your toes, instead of just hitting 'X' and hoping for the best.
The main character is the only one sporting an American accent. Knowing there is some sort of explanation (see below,) makes it alright. The voice acting is good by video game standards. The camera is controlled with the right stick, but the more methodical gameplay makes it much more bearable than in, say, 'Stranglehold.'
The Bad:
I don't think this is a spoiler, since it's the first thing that happens in the game (if anything, it really should have been talked about more by the developers.) Anyway, the developers decided to use make the Crusades part of the game some sort of "genetic memory" thing that is being extracted by scientists in the modern day. This feels 100% forced and completely unneeded. The only explanation I can think of, is that one team had created this awesome digital effect for locking on, while another dev team had created this great story about assassins during The Crusades. The producer came along and said "great! Now make up some reason to get that effect into that game."
While the controls are extremely intuitive, there are still times where they do something which makes no sense. It's extremely frustrating to almost be free of pursuing soldiers just to have your character do a wall jump instead of climbing onto a ledge like you had planned. Also, armor clad soldiers with drawn swords outrunning a highly trained assassin? I don't think so.
All in all, I'm not upset I bought this game. I don't consider it a huge disappointment, but at the same time the problems the game has are large and glaring.
 Dissapointment November 25, 2007
H. Shaw (Arizona)
11 out of 29 found this review helpful
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 December 20, 2007
M. D Mathis (Lothlorien, USA)
10 out of 56 found this review helpful
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.
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