Assassin's Creed series is hugely popular With nine main games and many spin offs, i reviewed Assassin's Creed 2 and that game was one of my favorites, so how did the first entry turn out? Pretty well but not on the same Level as it's sequel. Here's why.
The story follows Desmond Miles, a bartender and a former assassin who's been kidnapped by Abstergo, a evil Corporation who uses Desmond to relive the life of his 12-Century ancestors inside the Animus, a machine that follows Desmond memories of his ancestors, the ancestor they find inside his memories is Altair Ibn-La'Ahad, one of the assassins in the organization of the same name. But when Altair gets caught by the Templars, a evil organization while searching for an artifact named the Piece of Eden they both were searching for and Al Mualim finds out the actions Altair's been doing, he punishes him and steals his weapons and Equipment and must retrieve them back by doing assassinations in Acre, Jerusalem and Damascus but finds out that Al Mualim wasn't part of the Assassins and is part of the Templars and has the artifact, Altair must assassinate his way through to regain his Powers and stop Al Mualim from taking over Musyaf, his hometown.
The game is an open world action-adventure With stealth elements where Altair uses his acrobatics to get up on rooftops and his stealth techniques to assassinate guards in each city he traverses. In the game to update Your map, you must get to specific high Points to add more quests to Your map. The acrobatics are fantastic, each animation of his moves are stunning to look at, but he isn't as fast as Ezio in the sequel, but still holds up better than most parkour-based characters. The combat is alright, you use his sword for most of his attacks and Counter kills. The Counter kills are useful but they are tough to handle as well as getting used to the stupid AI of this game, sometimes the guards wont notice even though Altair is right near them. The combo kills are so pointless since you have to attack as soon as the sword of the enemy comes at you.
The missions and side quests is where the game goes downhill, why you may ask, it's because they never seem to evolve and all missions is the exact same that you did earlier, like you did a interrogation mission earlier, then 10 minutes later, you do it again, or you do a Informer mission, then 5 minutes later, another Informer mission. All mission in each city are the same which means the game is repetitive, so repetitive in fact, that the missions never varie and have nothing else but change of details so the missions are fun but sometimes boring due to repetitive nature.
The Graphics are great, the cities are detailed and textures are very high resolution but the faces are somewhat ugly to look at, but the game is beautiful. The Controls are great as well, you use the RT and A button to do the actions of Altair for Acrobatics and X and B and RT for attacks and you will know the rest from there.
The Third Crusade setting is very genius since most games don't have that time period setting, but i thought Renaissance fared better than the Third Crusade, but this is something gamers haven't seen before, games set in 12th-Century and present time at the same time.
The Desmond sections are boring since they happen frequently after a Assassination mission which was fixed in Assassin's Creed 2 where the was less then the where was in this game. The achievements are not hard but fun. The flag collecting, good god, is terrible since most are so easy like after finding one you'll find another one a second later, so flag-collecting is fun but easy. Templars are easy as well since well if you run around a lot you find one and you can kill it easy piecesy.
Assassin's Creed is a good game, but not great, the game's repetitive, the story is forgettable and the game lasted Shorter than expected and as well as having an abrupt ending where Altair finally kills Al Mualim and recovers the Piece of Eden and stares at it and that's it. However the animations, Graphics, gameplay and pacing as well as setting and replay value is great. Recommended absolutely.
8/10
The story follows Desmond Miles, a bartender and a former assassin who's been kidnapped by Abstergo, a evil Corporation who uses Desmond to relive the life of his 12-Century ancestors inside the Animus, a machine that follows Desmond memories of his ancestors, the ancestor they find inside his memories is Altair Ibn-La'Ahad, one of the assassins in the organization of the same name. But when Altair gets caught by the Templars, a evil organization while searching for an artifact named the Piece of Eden they both were searching for and Al Mualim finds out the actions Altair's been doing, he punishes him and steals his weapons and Equipment and must retrieve them back by doing assassinations in Acre, Jerusalem and Damascus but finds out that Al Mualim wasn't part of the Assassins and is part of the Templars and has the artifact, Altair must assassinate his way through to regain his Powers and stop Al Mualim from taking over Musyaf, his hometown.
The game is an open world action-adventure With stealth elements where Altair uses his acrobatics to get up on rooftops and his stealth techniques to assassinate guards in each city he traverses. In the game to update Your map, you must get to specific high Points to add more quests to Your map. The acrobatics are fantastic, each animation of his moves are stunning to look at, but he isn't as fast as Ezio in the sequel, but still holds up better than most parkour-based characters. The combat is alright, you use his sword for most of his attacks and Counter kills. The Counter kills are useful but they are tough to handle as well as getting used to the stupid AI of this game, sometimes the guards wont notice even though Altair is right near them. The combo kills are so pointless since you have to attack as soon as the sword of the enemy comes at you.
The missions and side quests is where the game goes downhill, why you may ask, it's because they never seem to evolve and all missions is the exact same that you did earlier, like you did a interrogation mission earlier, then 10 minutes later, you do it again, or you do a Informer mission, then 5 minutes later, another Informer mission. All mission in each city are the same which means the game is repetitive, so repetitive in fact, that the missions never varie and have nothing else but change of details so the missions are fun but sometimes boring due to repetitive nature.
The Graphics are great, the cities are detailed and textures are very high resolution but the faces are somewhat ugly to look at, but the game is beautiful. The Controls are great as well, you use the RT and A button to do the actions of Altair for Acrobatics and X and B and RT for attacks and you will know the rest from there.
The Third Crusade setting is very genius since most games don't have that time period setting, but i thought Renaissance fared better than the Third Crusade, but this is something gamers haven't seen before, games set in 12th-Century and present time at the same time.
The Desmond sections are boring since they happen frequently after a Assassination mission which was fixed in Assassin's Creed 2 where the was less then the where was in this game. The achievements are not hard but fun. The flag collecting, good god, is terrible since most are so easy like after finding one you'll find another one a second later, so flag-collecting is fun but easy. Templars are easy as well since well if you run around a lot you find one and you can kill it easy piecesy.
Assassin's Creed is a good game, but not great, the game's repetitive, the story is forgettable and the game lasted Shorter than expected and as well as having an abrupt ending where Altair finally kills Al Mualim and recovers the Piece of Eden and stares at it and that's it. However the animations, Graphics, gameplay and pacing as well as setting and replay value is great. Recommended absolutely.
8/10