cbbcgames: Assassin's Creed

Product Description

Jerusalem, 1191 AD - The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You are an elite Assassin sent to stop the hostilities by suppressing the powers on both the Crusader and Saracen sides. But as you carry out your missions, a conspiracy begins to unfold. You find yourself tangled up in a conflict that threatens not only the Holy Land, but the entire world. Experience the power of a feared Assassin. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape the events of this pivotal moment in history. ESRB Rated M for Mature

Features

Be an Assassin! Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
Realistic and responsive environments - Every action has its consequences. Crowds react to your moves, and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
Dedicated historical accuracy, from the models of the in-game cities to the weaponry to the portrayal of actual political figures who died or disappeared in the year 1191.
Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
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.

Amazon.com

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. As an assassin you will 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.

Features:

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
Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through detailed and historically accurate environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds
This game immerses you in the Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambiance, and the detail of a living world
Find action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in sword fight duels

Customer Reviews

One of the best
This game has to be one of the best games, I have ever played in my entire gaming life. The plot of the story is dramatic, suspensefull, and actually gorgeous. I played the game for about 24 hours, it is not like the game is suppose to be that long, but it is because of the fact that there are many things to exploit from the environment such as the way the people interact, the cities, the graphic, oh God everything is just beautifull and many other details that no one would actually expect from a video game. By the way the best of all, the main character (Altair) is mostly able to interact with every little platform throughout the game.
This game is crazy, the fighting mode, the control,and what else can I say, it is worth buying, trust me, you will have no cognitive dissonance about this purchase. Anyways, I haven't touch my PS3 for like five days, just waiting for Metal Gear Solid 4

Next-Gen Graphics, Last-Gen Gameplay
Okay. Some of you will love this game and others will absolutely hate it. I fall somewhere in between. This game reminds me heavily of Ubisoft's earlier Splinter Cell series on XBox 1. Unfortunately, Assassin's Creed has more in common with the first Splinter Cell than the much improved Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.

SPOILER ALERT!

Assassin's Creed has a really chaotic and messy story line. The game opens with my Assassin killing an innocent man. I promptly get chewed out by my two assassin friends for ignoring the "Assassin's Creed." My character responds that he does not like the rules and knows how to do the job better. My companions lecture me further about how Assassins are really good guys that just happen to kill to achieve peace. All of this sounds like a bizare Disney movie opening about the dangers of pride gone bad. Then the game forces me into a confrontation that I know I should not be in. My character has to enter a brightly lit room and take out 5 armed guys who are already facing my direction. I know already this is a situation that my character should not be in and I am reluctant to move into such an obvious trap. I'm an assassin. I should be hiding in the shadows looking to kill in a stealthy manner. I realized this bad situation is to have my assassin fail horribly and set up my character's fall from grace.
After many a few characters are supposedly killed, but turn out to be alive, the story moves on. I get another lecture about how the Assassins are really good guys just trying to make the world a better place. Is this game about a group of medieval boy scouts or a group of people who kill other people? Does Ubisoft know what an assassin is?
As you can tell, I hate the story. It's poorly written crap.

END OF SPOILERS

This game opens with a disclaimer about this game being written by a multi-cultural group of people with various religious backgrounds. Basically, Ubisoft openly admits this game is controversial. I believe this is also why the main game is sandwiched by sci-fi elements. The main game would be just as good without the sci-fi stuff. If the events of the game are simply a computerized simulation, then there is less reason to fuss over the controversy about a game set in the Holy Land. I do applaud the attempt to cover a somewhat taboo subject of looking at the Crusades from an alternate viewpoint. Anyone who plays this game needs to understand that your primary enemy in this game are the Knights Templar (a Catholic order). Some people may be outraged by this fact. By no means do I condone the open killing of any person or targeting of any religious group.

The game mechanics are a little touchy. They are decidely last-gen and lack the depth of other open world games. For example, moving any faster than a slow trot on a horse means every guard in the area tries to take me out. Did I miss the medieval speed limit signs? Guards seem to notice me walking around even if I don't do anything illegal. This frustrated me to no end. Then I realized I'm wearing a uniform! That's right, an assassin's uniform! How cheesy! Look at the rest of the guys in the assassin's village. They are all wearing the same white hood! Why would an assassin, who wants to remain anonymous, ever wear a stupid uniform?
The gameplay is very repetitive. Pickpocket, eavesdrop and beat info out of people. It's like shampoo instructions. (Lather, rinse, repeat.) Only a small portion of the game is actually about killing people. Perhaps, this appeals to people since you know what to expect.

Okay... On to good things.
The graphics are pretty. My assassin moves in a very fluid way. He climbs buildings like Spider-Man. The world of Assassin's Creed feels real. You wander through a living, breathing land.

My advice is this. If you were a fan of Ubisoft's earlier Splinter Cell games, then you will probably love this game. The rest of us should rent this game or play GTA IV.

This game is everything you could want
This is an amazing video game. The graphics are superb. The gameplay is fascinating, and it is more adult-oriented because it involves actual history. You learn more about the Templar Knights among other things. It has excellent artifical intelligence, and it is not too easy but not too difficult. I enjoy that there is such a large variety of things for Altair to do. He can ride horseback and explore areas at leisure, since the game is not completely linear. He can kill in a variety of methods, and there are many bonuses which make you want to continue playing. I have played this game for 5 or 6 hours straight without becoming bored.

This is the only PS3 game so far other than Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, that I would completely recommend buying to start your PS3 game collection. It will not disappoint you, and it is for people of all ages and as an adult I can tell you it is very suitable for any age!