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 Great game with horrible failures June 30, 2008
Robert Gribbon II (College Park, MD USA)
The game is beautiful, and the story is unique. I love the setting.
No more repetive than most games if you ask me.
However, after all the work that most have gone into this it has horrible critical flaws:
1) Way too many layers to wade through to enter and exit the game, and there's no point to it.
2) Camera seems to have a mind of its own and often gets stuck behind trees or buildings. If you are in a corner you can't look out to the open area or into the corner, you're just stuck. The camera will also swivel right before you try to make a critical turn forcintg your character to run exactly the wrong direction.
3) The bigger the battle the less repsonsive the controls become, even with a gamepad. This is the feature that most makes me want to chuck the whole game in the garbage.
 Tourist in the Holy Land July 7, 2008
Berkeley Gamer (Berkeley, CA USA)
I could not have imagined experiencing Damascus, Acre or Jerusalem in the 12th century. And yet, here is something that seems like them, alive (at least audio-visually). The experience is the best part of AC.
But AC takes its play from console FPS/TPS games. This means that many of the actual missions are more like arcade games than interactive stories. There are also some kinks in the ways your character and camera move during action that get your character and views stuck in the wrong places at the wrong times (with a mouse/keyboard setup, anyway). The game also suffers from one of the worst faults of console ports -- checkpoint saves. That is, you can't save at will and are doomed to repeat missions many times if you have the patience to do so. These issues reduce the fun.
The story that plays out to tie the action together is a mix of Near Eastern history and modern-day sci fi. I found it engaging and imaginative. It is linear. But it is well-told and has interesting characters. Add to this the immersive tourist-in-the-holy-land experience, and AC is good entertainment that I recommend if it comes at a bargain price.
 AWESOME! July 13, 2008
C. Standish (New York)
I bought this game for my husband as a gift. He's been playing it non-stop once the sun goes down and is on the computer for hours! In his words, it's just awesome!!!
 Unstable and disappointing July 18, 2008
Stephen F. Abbot (Boston Mass)
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I bought the game before discovering that there is a significant reputation for lock up and crashing problems on the three platforms for which it is available. It is truly unfortunate that the stabillity issues are not being addressed by releasing company. I can only blame myself for not researching the game better before purchasing it. The graffics on the PC are wonderful, given some good horsepower, but the game crashes within 5 minutes. The problem is slightlyt more prevalent on nVidia based systems (my preference) but the problems are common on PS2 and XBOX 360s as well. I will check once a month for the hoped for update. Wait for the price to drop, as it will, as a reuslt of the stabillity issues, and later it may be a good value, after the needed fixes are available. I have hope for a fix on the PC, those unfortunates with PS2 and XBOX 360s may be SOL for an update.
Good luck, you have been warned.
on the plus side though, the graphics are amazing :)
Has a Few Flaws and no Ending but UBISOFT is Working on a Sequel August 5, 2008
Keith Pearce (Durant, OK USA)
Assassin's Creed is one of the best games I've played, but it has several flaws that I hope they correct in the sequel.
The main flaw in Assassin's Creed is that there isn't enough variety and planning in the assassinations. Most of the time it is impossible to get to your target without fighting your way through the guards so planing and stealth doesn't help much in the actual assassinations(it's a good thing that Assassin's Creed has a great combat engine). The other flaws are: The assassin can't change disguises and you would think a real assassin would, The assassin can't swim and it seams like someone so well trained in all other ways would know how to swim, and the story doesn't end but this isn't really a flaw because they are making a sequel but I don't know when it will come out except that UBISOFT has started on the sequel and it probably won't be out this year(2008)
Assassin's Creed is a good blend of action/adventure and open-world. It far longer and more open than most action games and much more story driven then most open-world games. Also it has far more realistic and detailed game Play and graphics than any game I've played: running, jumping, climbing, and fighting are all smooth, fluid and realistic. Game play is well balanced between your mastery of the controls and the difficulty of your opponents while maintaining a smooth realistic look(I never got tired of the fights even though some of the other aspects of the game got rather repetitive and dull).
I recommend a X box type controller and even though the game's tutorial isn't designed for it a PlayStation type controller also works well if you set the game on X box and press 1 when it tells you to press 0, 2 when it tells you to press 1 and so on(I used a PlayStation type controller)
Assassin's Creed worked great on my computer and the only problem I had was that it froze three times:
* Windows Vista Home Premium
* EVGA Nvidia nForce 680i SLI 775 A1 Version
* Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.40GHz
* Corsair Dominator 4GB PC2-8500 DDR2
* 2(SLI) EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked
* Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty with 64MB of X-RAM.
* 2 Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives in Raid 0 Array,
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