Assassin's Creed

December 23, 2007, 1:04 PM

I had completed on a pals 360 Assassin's Creed and have posted this thread up so you can put on your views etc etc.

For me personally AC is a game engine that has been created very well but has a crappy game attached to it.

Visually it's incredable, the size, scope and setial in each area is what really defines what Current-Gen gaming should look like on the 360/PS3. The NPC models are a bit lacking is some cases but the World itself is so brilliant it doesn't bother me at all.

Sound effects and voice acting is of a good standard although having Altair going around talking in an American accent just sorta ruined it for me there, it's just plain stupid to hear that.

Story can go fuck right off, having it based in the future and having to go through those sections talking to Lucy was pretty crappy. And giving you control over your character during unskipable cutscenes doesn't make it any less of an unskipable cutscene. It's an annoyance and will be especially during a second playthrough.

Now the assassinations are great fun whether you do them stealthily or not but everything else just feels like padding to shamefully extend a game that hasn't got a lot of depth. You start every mission going down the same fucking mountain and you have to ride your horse to each city which isn't bad until you've reached every city once and the game lets you teleport to each location thereafter. This makes me feel that the riding sections are just pointless in the end.

Every mission itself is a repeat of each other, do same 4 tasks, carry out assassination and escape (the fun part) and gets boring quite quickly. It doesn't help that the awards you get for each completed mission are usually crap, getting better weapons is cool but been given abilities that are either useless like dodge to ones that should have been available from the beginning like the ledge grab just doesn't give me a big incentive to continue.

But I had to since I've got to hand it back soon so I completed it to the end which was an endless fight with wave upon wave of enemy soldiers showing how how poor the battle system was and when the ending credits finished and I saw the final twist I felt a bit underwhelmed.

It's a good enough game that shows a lot of promise but it would have better if they achieved that this time round instead of the inevitable sequel.

6/10

December 23, 2007, 7:36 PM

Although I've not played it properly, I've watched my girlfriend play this and it looks very cool. Of course the missions repeat themselves.....there's hardly any game that has new missions every time. Closest game I can compare this to is Hitman.....and that has the same premise (find target, kill target, escape) but the difference is the different areas. Even games like GTA have the same missions (kill someone/race/collect). The missions in AC are the same as any other. As for myself, I'm not too bothered by the combat system as I prefer the ability to explore more tan fighting. And to be honest, an assassin isn't really supposed to be that great when in a brawl.....they're best at quietly killing an individual. So the combat doesn't bother me at all.

Despite what I've read on another message board, I think if they placed the a sequel in Feudal Japan and had you play a ninja, it would be perfect.

December 23, 2007, 7:58 PM

But the combat is forced upon you at the end and I'm not kidding when I say you fight 15 guys at a time pretty much non-stop for the last hour, when you're using a sucky battle system it doesn't help.

And while most games are repetitive in one way or another this takes it to a whole new level, you do do the same 4 boring, tedious tasks over and over again. Even GTA has more to it than this game, most of it is just needless faffing about.

And I heard about the feudal Japan things as well, I would love the next setting to be there.

January 2, 2008, 11:07 AM

I loved the game, my favorite game actually. Sure it gets repetitive but it didn't really bother me to much, i loved the combat system so i spent most the time just fighting hordes of soldiers.

The game was beautifully made but I guess it all just depends on the person.

January 2, 2008, 12:09 PM

I bought this game for the PS3 and i have to say it is one of my favourites so far. Im on memory block 5 atm.

I have to say that the graphics are pretty nice on the PS3 in this game. I dont know if there any better then the 360 but there nice. The NPC graphics i didnt really notice at all whereas i was more into what the buildings and such looked like. The buildings seemed alittle repetitive in what they looked like. I also thought that there shoulda been more hiding spots then the hay bails and that other thing which im not sure what to call.

I thought in cutscenes that when it came down to it that they were nice. No change in graphics or anything (which werent needed) but just the ability to move the camera was a nice feature that i havent seen in any other game.

Now the assassination part i quite enjoyed. I loved going up behind the guards and stabbing them in the throats. I didnt really get how when you kill the person your suppose to you go into that blue room when theres guys that are all around you that want to kill you... hows that work?

The combat seemed alittle repetitive as well as in the moves you did after you block an attack. You pretty muched just button mashed the square button. There was some variety in the killing but if you fight alot, itll get repetitive.

The voice overs in this game were ok but whenever i passed a merchant on the streets he would always say the same thing... "You search around other merchants and cant find what you want? Come here we got what you want" or something like that.. I didnt really find a problem with altairs voice at all. Didnt find it wierd that it sounded american really.

Now for the parts where your in the lab.. I kinda got confused. As the game moved on i got it but it was really weird how you go back in time. I found that Lucy sounded and looked like Kirsten Bell (was she...?).

Anyways overall i really liked this game and im going to have to give it a 8/10.

January 2, 2008, 1:56 PM

Well, I've started playing this yesterday and have already killed my first mark. God those beggars were SO annoying.

Have to say it looks beautiful on HD. Amazing attention to detail.

Everything about the game is good. Even the fighting, though it can be annoying and repetitive but so what.

As for the scenes in the future, what's wrong with them? They're there to add to the story. If you'd watch MAtrix without seeing the scenes outside of the Matrix, you'd be confused as hell. I for one think the idea of using something like the Animus is quite clever. It means that for sequels, there's really a lot of choice of where they can go with it. Prince of Persia done something similar where the games were actually the Prince's flashbacks/remembering what he had done.

January 2, 2008, 2:00 PM

What you need to know about the future cutscenes with the animus and all, is that Assassins creed is the first in a trilogy, there will be more to come. So maybe each one will be from different time periods?

Either way the game was great, 9/10

January 2, 2008, 2:15 PM

Orly? theres going to be more then one? Will they be called Assassins Creed 2, 3 etc.? and where did you get this info? i wanna read more about it.

January 3, 2008, 12:06 PM

Well, I've reached Memory block 3 and so far have had to freezes. Not that bad but annoying.

As for the sequels, I'm sure she said she'd make more if AC proved successful. I'm not sure if she's said so in any recent interviews but the way the game is (the reference to other animus "candidates"), I'm sure they'll make a sequel.

January 3, 2008, 2:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth Valandil

As for the scenes in the future, what's wrong with them? They're there to add to the story. If you'd watch MAtrix without seeing the scenes outside of the Matrix, you'd be confused as hell. I for one think the idea of using something like the Animus is quite clever. It means that for sequels, there's really a lot of choice of where they can go with it. Prince of Persia done something similar where the games were actually the Prince's flashbacks/remembering what he had done.

There isn't anything wrong with the future scenes since that's what it's based round, what I don't like about them is that it was a missed chance. Instead of having a really interesting story focusing on the early assassins and the Crusades which would have been something different and was one of reasons why I'd shown interest in it, instead however they have something that came out of a Dan Brown novel which isn't really clever and I've seen some of the story elements before.

Of course people don't have to agree with any of my points but I still go along with the view that it's got one of the best game engines I've seen with a slightly crappy, tedious game attached to it.