Overall 8.1 Graphics 9 Sound 10 Addictive 6 Story 10 Depth 8 Difficulty 5
8.2
Assassin's Creed Review Blueblood1712
Graphics: I think that the graphics for this game and for the Play Station 3 are fairly well done, especially during the cut scenes.
Although the game can be a bit glitching from time to time, but mostly when you make a rooftop kill.
Sound:The music for this game is quite good and grows louder at just the right moments. Ubisoft also did great with the kill sounds and
the sounds of your blades.
Addictiveness:I am not saying that this game is not fun, but you are probably not going to play this twice. the missions for you are EXTREMELY repetitive but it does give you a few things to do on the side. BUT there is a down side. Once you pass the game, you can't go back into the animus, so if you for get to pass a side mission before you complete the last story mission then too bad you have to restart on a new save file.
Story: Despite a few flaws the game makes up for it in the story. If you want to play it for yourself then skip this part. You play as Desmond Miles, a bar tender that was born into the assassin order captured by Abstergo Industries and forced into the animus. The animus lets Desmond live the life of his assassin ancestor Altair Ibn La ahad back to the time of the Third Crusade because Abstergo wants an ancient artifact known as a "Piece of Eden" for reasons untold. So then you play as Altair, an assassin who has broken the sacred tenants of the assassin order. Altair is the stripped of his master assassin rank and is practically a newbie but he has a sixth sense called eagle vision which allows him to see things that others cannot. You have to work your way back up by following the orders of Altair's master Al Mualin. The assassins fight the knights of Templar for many reasons but in this case the piece of Eden, the Apple. As you kill the 9 targets that Al Mualin told you to, Altair realizes that the 9 men he killed all knew the apple's true power but in total 10 knew. Al Mualin was #10 and he wanted the apple to himself. The apple was legendary and it was said that the apple "Parted seas, sent cities in flames, and for a carpenter, turned water into wine." So as it turns out, your master is the final boss and the apple can create whatever illusion the holder desires. You have to fight all the 9 men in one battle then Al Mualin a few times then you retrieve the apple and it shows you a map of the world showing where all the pieces of Eden are located. After this, they take Desmond out of the animus to rest up but this time he sees the room with eagle vision. Staying in the animus too long causes patients to have trouble deciphering real life and the past called the Bleeding Effect. And so Desmond sees coded messages written in blood and some in different languages written by the patient before him, subject 16. and that is where it ends.
Depth: Though a great story, all of the missions are as previously stated, very repetitive, the first assassin target you face, you have to gain information of him and his whereabouts. You do this by pickpocketing, interrogating, eves dropping, of by helping your assassin friend pick up flags and/or helping him assassinate someone. You can also help citizens from getting beat up and they will offer you help, but that is pretty much it. You go to a wide open area called the kingdom with a few roads and plenty of Templars and then to three cities three times and do the exact same thing except for the boss kills, they are all different like a chase scene of fighting 20 guards before facing him. The only other missions are find the 100 flags scattered on all the cities and the kingdom to get a crossbow that will be plenty helpful. there is also a mission of finding 60 actual knights of Templar and killing them. Good luck finding them because they won't show up on your map.
Difficulty: The game won't be very hard, it is fairly easy actually, but the 9th boss might take you a few tries. It didn't take me more than a week and a half to finish the game, without the flags though.
Overall, I would give this game a B- not much of a play, but the story really sets you up for the rest of the series, which I recommend getting. The Assassin's Creed series only gets better and better with time.
Graphics 9 Sound 10 Addictive 6 Story 10 Depth 8 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 07-07-13
Review Replies: 1
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