Product Description

You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

• Be an Assassin: Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of historys deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
• Realistic and responsive environments: Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
• Action with a new dimension - total freedom: Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
• Relive the epic times of the Crusades: Assassins Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
• Intense action rooted in reality: Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
• Next-gen gameplay: The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-05-09
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Original language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

SO Repetative!
This game is based in the dark ages of the crusades and you play as an assasin, your role to kill lots of bad guys, how do you do that, you listen to conversations on the street, pickpocket people, beat them up then kill the main baddie, you then repeat this process about 15 times in a series of tedious missions in 6 or 7 decent looking cities. People all look the same as do the soldiers and they all say the same phrases over and over again. The last mission is the same as the first and you'll probably get bored before they have even started due to dull, uniteresting and unimportant cutscenes. The game is horribly repetitive, each mission is the same as the last.
However to focus on these points would be totally unfair and at first the game is absolutly brilliant and will entertain you for at least a couple of weeks and it is nice, despite the boring cutscenes, to get it out and re-play a mission again just for the sake of it, I wouldn't recomend any excepionaly exciting missions because they are all the same, however they do get harder as you go along, mainly because more soldiers come at you and the bosses get harder to kill.

Beautiful, But Needs Variety
Assassin's Creed is definitely a game that can't fail to impress when it's first installed. The scale and depth of the graphics, the smoothness of the animation and the atmospheric sounds combine to create a trully impressive gaming experience and it's easy to get drawn in as you explore the environment.

The combat is fairly easy and the range of stylish kill moves will sate your bloodthirst. It's just as satisfying to stalk city guards and silently kill them in broad daylight as it is to flambouyantly launch yourself at someone and impale them with Wolverine-style abandon.

Sadly, the more you explore, the more you find to dispell the rapture. Once you've completed the missions a few times, you soon realise how repetitive the the gameplay is and how fickle some of the controls can be. I found myself simply killing the begging women so I didn't have to listen to them bleating the same few lines to me over and over again. That said, I still never tire of climbing the turrets and towers just to dive off again into one of the handy piles of straw which break your fall.

The story is good, and I'm looking forward to the next installment which is due later this year. I'm hoping that the developers have done something to increase the range of gameplay to reward those of use who come back for more.

Assassins Need help
I remember a time .. not as far back as when Assassins Creed is set but in the not so distant past when games had to fulfil certain criteria to be classed as entertaining. It now seems as if marketing and fanboys/girls have more to say with how a game is received.
This is no more evident than in the case of Assassins Creed which by all accounts was believed to be a classic piece of gaming. Unfortunately I found this not to be the case as for me it does not stand up to many similar releases.
As always I try to give a reasons for my review scores and in this case the number of positives are few and far between.
Graphically the game is polished to a high standard with regards to scenery and clothing but unfortunately this does not translate well to facial animations and body movement. I would even go as far as to say that the main character of the game struts about like he is walking down a catwalk modelling the latest celebrity endorsed underwear!
The gameplay is overly repetitive and to some degree pointless which leads into the storyline which is also extremely boring and trudges along like a snail wading through treacle. I bought this game thinking that there would be actual real assassin type scenarios .. kill and sneak into the background undetected, how wrong was I!! It is more a case of run up kill your target, do a bit of free running (more on this later), hide and run back to your home base.
I didn't expect to be riding a horse looking at scenery.. very pretty indeed but detracts from the game completely.
As previously mentioned an aspect included in this game is the free running or not so free running as it may have to be rebranded. This to put it simply is a joke and I wonder if it was tested thoroughly enough before they decided to just include it at the last minute. Don't get me wrong at some points it does run fairly smoothly but it is never as smooth and entertaining experience as in any of the Prince of Persia games.
These issues could be ignored as they are easily overcome and are probably due to my extremely high expectations of PS3 releases. The issue that cannot be ignored is the poor and downright lazy fighting system that they have included in the game which is so simply basic my old Amstrad CPC 464 with a classic joystick would have keeled over in embarrassment if it was used on any of its games! All I will say is once you learn how to counter the game is over!

Buy this game if you have nothing better to do with your money and have absolutely nothing to do. Assassins Creed 2 is out now which is apparently a drastic improvement on the first instalment, this is not too difficult a task.
Oh and to the fanboys, yes I did complete the game and I am only stating my opinion! lol