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Rating:  286 reviews
Sales Rank: 182
Format: CD
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Operating System: PlayStation 3
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 34339
Model: 15782621
UPC: 008888343394
EAN: 0008888313397
ASIN: B000P46NMA
Publication Date: November 2007
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Assassin's Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. 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. Key Features - Be an Assassin: Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history's 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: Assassin's 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 Description
From the team that brought the world Prince of Persia and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell comes a sophisticated new franchise utilizing the power of next-gen technology for its complex action.
The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. 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.
Special Features
Be an Assassin - Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history's deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
Realistic and responsive environments - Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
Action with a new dimension for 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 - Assassin's 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.
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 EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED July 19, 2010
Devendra S. Mistry (San Diego, CA USA)
I have loved Prince of Persia-Sands of Time games on PS2 and since this game looked similar and some people were speaking highly of it, I decided to give it a shot. After finishing the game and unlocking >80% of the secret emails, here is what I thought of it.
PROS.
ACROBATIC ABILITIES: Like in Prince of Persia games, this is one of my favorite aspect of this game. Climbing buildings, jumping from roof to roof, taking leap of faith etc. can be real fun.
OPEN WORLD: I truly like open world games. Between three major cities, there are plenty of open world exploration you can do. My favorite part was to get on top of tall buildings and just admire the beauty of the well designed cities.
TOOLS FOR ASSASSINATION: As the title of the game implies, it is about assassinating targeted individual and to do so, they give you some pretty good weapons. My favorites are hidden blades. Loved taking down enemies with them.
STORY: Have to say, the game has somewhat confusing, but never the less decent story. Can't tell you much without spoiling it.
CONS.
EXTREMELY REDUNDANT MISSIONS: I was expecting they will challenge you with variety of assassination mission, however, most of them are exactly the same. Unfortunate part is they are also very easy. So the first few assassinations were fun; however, after that I was bored to death killing the targets same way over and over again. And difficulty only increases slightly from initial missions to later missions.
EXTREMELY REDUNDANT CHORES: In order to get your mission, you have to do some chores. These chores are EXACTLY THE SAME IN ALL CITIES. By the time you finish the game, you will hate them.
ANNOYING CHORES: Some chores involve annoying task like collecting the flags. HATE IT, ABSOLUTELY HATE IT.
LIMITED VARIETY IN WEAPONS AND UPGRADES: They have few different weapons and upgrades for these weapons, but I was expecting more. Much more.
LIMITED VARIETY IN ENEMIES: There are very few different types of enemies in the game. Again, I was expecting a lot more.
ANNOYING CHASES: So after you assassinate someone, you get chased by the guards, very understandable. If you get caught in public doing something stupid, you get chased, acceptable. Initially, all of these didn't bother me, but as the game get more and more redundant, these chases started to annoy me more and more. What was fun before, became torture now.
WATER = INSTANT DEATH: What the...?? You are master of so many different weapons and skills, but you can't swim!!!! This would not be a problem if some missions and assassination required travel over the water.
To me, Cons easily outweighed the Pros and what was supposed to be an enjoyable experience, turned out to be a great punishment. SO I REGRETTED GETTING THIS GAME.
Now while it falls the scope of this discussion, Assassins Creed 2 is a completely different story and a great game. Check out my review for it should you are interested.
Beautiful game, certainly not fun after the first 15 minutes... June 26, 2010
Brian Hawkinson (San Jose, CA)
It's been a long time since I've been this annoyed with a game. I had originally played Assassin's Creed 2 and was loving it, so I stopped playing it in order to pick up Assassin's Creed and get back history going in to the second one. I regret having done this, now, as the first AC is nothing like the 2nd.
Okay, here is a typical day in the life of AC. You take an impossibly long horse ride through the country where every single guard is chasing you. Then you get to the city and you have to visit the bureau. From there you have to do at least 2 of 6 investigations (3 of 6 later). One is a pickpocket where you creep up on a guy and try sneak behind him without noticing, pickpocket him before he randomly turns around. Then you find another person and you "interrogate" him, meaning beat him up till he talks and then kill him. Or you can eavesdrop. Once you've done this you go back to the bureau to obtain your target. Proceed to target and find yourself in various situations to assassinate him. Some are easy, others are extremely hard and long, such as the rich district in Jerusalem where you are first surrounded by 5 guys, then you have to go on a long chase only to be surrounded by like 12 more guards. Assassinate, then return to bureau. Oh yeah, the high alert is on the whole time as you now must sprint away from the assassination to get away, only to find you are constantly running up walls, running in to people, jumping crates, and every other thing that can get in the way while a gang load of guards are chasing you. Now repeat this eight more times, the exact same thing with all the same frustrations.
You get extremely annoyed as you randomly run up walls or run in to people who just happen to swerve in to you, only to find your target getting away. You go to attack and your sword gets put away, or you run up a wall while guards are swinging at you. I couldn't help but yell and vow to stop playing this game. I now know why this game got such poor ratings, especially compared to the second one which is so much more fun. In the second one you have fun exploring and climbing, in the first you just want to get it over with and the exploring and climbing, although a major attraction to the game, becomes a hindrance. A major plus, though, is the lifelike feel of the climbing and running. It feels very fluid and consistent. As well the graphics are just amazing. I couldn't help at times as I stopped on a roof and just looked around the city, although this could never be long because there is always a guard challenging you and chasing you if you don't move fast enough (something else that is annoying).
All in all I would say skip this one. It isn't worth it for adding anything to the story, and AC2 is certainly way more fun and beautiful so why not skip the first one and start with AC2. If it weren't for the fluid climbing and running and the beautiful graphics this would have been a 1 star. As is I rate a 2 star because of that and the innovative new way to create a world. Do yourself a favor and skip this one and go straight to the AC2.
2 stars.
You could do better June 23, 2010
lastunusedname (The city...of Townsville!)
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Playing Assassin's Creed is like hanging out with a caricature of a ditzy high school cheerleader. On one hand, it is a very, very pretty game. Its a pleasure to look at, every detail obviously painstakingly done by skilled professionals. Its also very slow. Now, I'm used to a methodical pace. I've played some old-school RPGs, I've earned the Inchworm emblem in Metal Gear Solid 4. I was forged in the slow-burning fires of Silent Hill, Splinter Cell and the first few levels of Tetris. But in those games, it makes sense that you have to go slow because you're either average, obviously not supposed to be there or just starting the game. I understand. But apparently back in the olden days, running near a guard was a capitol offense. Thats not an exaggeration to be funny. If you run, no if you power walk, too much and a guard sees you, they'll hunt you down and try to kill you with the same enthusiasm as if you'd just killed a bunch of their comrades. Altair's costume is supposed to make him look like a monk, right? Thats how he can blend in with crowds of them. So why does every guard instantly know hes an assassin just because hes moving quickly? Even monks have to run at some point. And if it makes him stick out, why is he wearing it?
So the only alternatives are to either fight forever or blend in with the crowds. It sounds cool on paper or on a forum, but its mostly just walking real slow. It takes a really long time to get anywhere and even for someone used to creeping along slowly, I just don't have the patience. Even riding the horse, it still takes longer than it needs to just to go to the next mission. And if for some reason you're not riding the horse, clear your calendar, you just got booked for the rest of the day. Plus along the way, there are checkpoints and if its your first time playing, you won't see them coming, which means you're racing into a trap. Once you're out of the crowd and sneaking up on guards in the traditional sense, its not bad, but by then you're so used to using other people that you're not sure how to do stealth without them.
Another thing I hate is how on your first mission, you have all these weapons and stuff and then after you fail, you lose them. Its a pretty flimsy way to make you earn them, but then why let us have them to begin with? To tease us? Incentive? Its also pretty strict of this guild of assassins that their best guy gets demoted to trainee status just because they didn't succeed once. I understand they take assassinations very seriously and it does turn out very badly, but hes supposedly the best and you can't help but fail. It would be like if you were playing Final Fantasy at lvl. 99 and having to go back to lvl 1 because a monster ran away. You can't help that, why be punished for it? I'd hate to see what they do to the guys who botch their first mission.
The assassin plot is basic but sufficient. But theres a different story going on parallel to it in which the assassin's descendant has been brought into a lab to dream about being his ancestor so they can unlock genetic memories of him. This subplot adds nothing and takes away a lot. Most of it is just looking up at two people talking for a while then shambling to a bed like a zombie, waiting and then doing it again in reverse. It could easily be cut. This game would be better without these parts and the story would function just as well if not better. Its not even interesting. I'll sit through a subplot if its good, but if its not, don't bother me with it.
Should you buy it? I think this is the first review in which I could answer that with a definite 'no'. Again, its like being with a stereotypical airheaded cheerleader. They're both enjoyable to look at and if you work hard enough at it, you might trick them into being fun for a minute. But mostly they're just slow, uninteresting, not really saying anything and they make you wonder why all your friends recommended them so highly. You're better off with a Hitman game. Even Tenchu 2 on PS1 is more fun. Yeah, its pretty basic and ugly but you won't spend an afternoon on one damn mission doing basically nothing for most of it. Plus you can make your own missions and even the mission editor on a PS1 game is more fun than this game.
 Great, fun game; however, too repetitive. June 8, 2010
David Outten (Boone, NC)
I played this game a few years back when I was in high school and loved it. I spent hours trying to get to the eagle points and saving citizens and I did not get tired of it. After awhile, though, this gets a little old and unfortunately, it's one of the few things outside the main quest to do. Also, it's the main way of getting extra health. This isn't a huge gripe, since I believe the game is nearly perfect for a first try, but a problem is a problem none the less.
Now that I play it two years later, I'll be the first to say that it is still amazing for anyone to play, and the sheer amount beautiful world to explore is amazing. I love riding the horse around and traveling to different cities. Although it can get a little repetitive, it still is very fun. The fighting is great, not perfect, but still fun, and exploring the cities are also worthwhile. I still believe it to be a great game that may get old if you play too many hours in one sitting, but is definitely worth the money, even if it was $50.
Good Game but still needed some improvements May 22, 2010
E. Soler Jr. (Bronx, New York)
I recently just started playing the Assassin Creed series and just ended it. I was really expecting something else for this game but I got some pleasure playing it. The Fun starts mostly at the end of the game because you begin to battle many soldiers non-stop, which I truly loved. The thing I most hated about this game was that how the hell can't an Assassin swim everytime I fell into the water I died, which was really stupid and unrealistic. I was mostly bored throughout the game because it's just mostly hopping around, saving citizens and running. I hope part 2 has everything that part 1 didn't. Overall, I would still recommend this Game to people with enough patients to get through the game.
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