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Manufacturer: UBI Soft
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 Amazon Minimum Age: 204 Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Video Game Brand: Ubisoft EAN: 0008888523390 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Feature: Be an Assassin! Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape. Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: UBI Soft Manufacturer: UBI Soft Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: UBI Soft Release Date: 2007-11-13 Studio: UBI Soft
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.
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
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: FUN!!!...at first... Comment: The game is INCREDIBLY FUN!!!...at first. But then it starts to get repetitious, climb the towers, get the intel, kill the target, climb the towers, get the intel, kill the targets, over and over, and the cities are all pretty much the same. They have different people and different looks to them, but they're pretty much the same.
With that being said, they did an AMAZING job of teaching VERY complex button combinations in a VERY short amount of time. I was assassinating people and jumping from roof-top to roof-top in NO time.
Still, I stopped playing about half way through because I was tired of endlessly climbing towers.
Story line: 10/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 9/10
Gameplay: 6/10
Replayability: ? That depends on you. If you just play it for an hour a day, conquering one city at a time then the tower thing probably won't get to you. But if like me, you like to sit and beat a game in a few days, then yes the towers will likely begin to grate on you.
As a disclaimer, let me add that I don't particularly like going BACK in time. I'm a Futurist (look it up on Wiki).
Still, the story-line alone makes this a worthwhile game!
I'd say Buy It and Try it for yourself. I (and that 1up review guy) are pretty picky about games.
Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome game, but does get repetitive. Comment: Excellent game, great story line, large levels, great visuals. The only con is that it gets kind of repetitive after a while. Customer Rating: Summary: Why read a long review? Comment: The game is worth the rent. Beautiful visuals, decent storyline, fun combat, very repetitive. Great idea to run up walls and reach very high points but not worth the continuing side quests.
"Thanks for playing. Game Over" Customer Rating: Summary: Snoozer Comment: This game is bit of a bore. It's repetative, slow moving, overly complicated, and it lacks character. It looks cool, but 3 different gamers in my house all lost interest in it after getting about 15-25% through it. Customer Rating: Summary: Beautiful game, engaging story, repetitive play Comment: Assassin's Creed was unfortunately a victim of its own hype.
Though the story was superb, and the graphics astounding, Assassin's Creed's gameplay mechanics are its downfall.
Combat is boring and repetitive. After you get a certain ability, you are more or less invincible; the only way you could die is from your own stupidity.
Missions also become very boring very quick. Each city you go to has the exact same side quests, albeit in different locations. Unless you have reason to plod through each side quest (Xbox Gamerscore for example), there's no reason to waste your time on them, and suddenly the game seems a lot shorter.
Despite the repetition, Assassin's Creed's story was fantastic. If nothing else, it's worth rushing through the missions just to get through the story.
While I wouldn't have recommended Assassin's Creed to anybody at its $60 launch price, the current going rate for the game is a small price to pay for a delightful story.
