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• Amazon Sales Rank: #89 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-11-16
• Platform: Xbox 360

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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.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description:
Assassin's Creed is set in 1191 AD, when the Third Crusade was tearing the Holy Land apart. Shrouded in secrecy and feared for their ruthlessness, the Assassins intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. Players, assuming the role of the main character Altair, will have the power to throw their immediate environment into chaos and to shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

Our story follows a disgraced master Assassin (ALTAIR) who embarks on an epic quest to restore his status within the Assassin Order. After failing to assassinate the Templar Leader (ROBERT DE SABLE) and recover the legendary Templar Treasure, Altair is demoted to Uninitiated (the lowest rank in the Assassin order).

SINAN, Leader of the Assassins, offers our hero an opportunity to redeem himself. Altair must venture out into the Holy Land and assassinate men said to be exacerbating and exploiting the hostilities created by the Third Crusade. In doing so, he will stabilize the region, allowing Sinan to usher in an age of peace.

When our game begins, Richard the Lionheart has just recaptured the port city of Acre from occupying Saracens. With a base of operations established, the Crusaders prepare to march south. Their true target is JERUSALEM - which they intend to recapture in the name of the Church. However, SALADIN, leader of the Saracen Army, currently rules Jerusalem. Stinging from his army's defeat at Acre, he will now allow Richard to humiliate him again. The Saracens are massing at the ruins of Fortress Arsuf, intending to ambush the Crusaders and prevent them from reaching Jerusalem.

These war maneuvers have left the rest of the Holy Land wide open. While Richard and Saladin battle one another, the men left to govern in their stead have begun taking advantage of their newfound positions of power. Exploiting, manipulation, and provocation rule the day. It is into this chaotic mess our hero now finds himself thrust. He is ordered to assassinate those most active in their exploitation.

And so Altair begins his missions.

Along the way, however, he will begin to discover that his targets are bound by more than just a shared interest in personal gain. They seem to share membership in a secret society - a group all too familiar to the Assassins. And they are not simply looking for profit. The true goal, and how they plan to achieve it are secrets to be discovered during the course of our story.

Customer Reviews

Rent, dont buy.
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.
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??
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.