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: #110 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

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.

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.

Looks good, plays well but.....
Only for an hour or two.

As other people have said this game is quite easy to pick up and play at any time (if you forget the controls go back to your home base and do a practise fight) but is very samey. I make myself little challenges like stay anonymous for so long or stealth kill every guard I see until I get back to base to keep myself interested. It is still a very good game but I think it's better suited to the casual gamer playing an hour or two at a time, any more than that and it does get quite dull. I've also never bothered trying to collect all of the flags or killing all of the Templars. I collect and kill the ones I see but don't go looking.

one tip: if you stealth kill someone and walk away DO NOT go back the way you came for a few minutes. if the body is still there the guards recognise you as you walk past even if they didn't see you at the time and you're walking without drawing attention to yourself. That has caught me out a few times on the mini assasination missions.

It does look good, this was the first game I switched on when I bought my PS3 Slim and I've read things where people have said you need an internet connection to play it because it downloads an update first. It does but when i turned it on I hadn't set up my internet connection yet and it still worked fine so i didn't find this problem.

One thing I did find is with the latest update the game would no longer load at all. You can delete the game data to get rid of the update then run the game again and that fixes the problem, although I had to start all over again which was a nuisance because I'd gotten two thirds of the way through it.

Now the new one is out, which I haven't played, people may just go straight for that one as it's so much more complciated and has so much more to do. I'm told there is an update at the start making the first game superfluous but I'd still recommend it anyway to anyone who wants to get the idea of the games and is only going to play for a short period of time.