Assassins Creed
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
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Assassin’s Creed
It starts a little slow, but you get more involved in the game as you play. Very enjoyable.
5 Stars Amazing graphics, huge world, awesome controls!
Assassins Creed is a 3D, 3rd person, action/adventure game set in the Holy Land during the Crusades. It is based on a real Persian military group called the Hashashins. They focused on political control, sending commandos to infiltrate a target’s household staff, etc. in order to make things go the way they wanted.
But this game is about carrying out objectives in a totally free, open world. I am blown way by the combination of stunning graphics and huge maps. The cities of Damascus and Jerusalem are beautifully rendered and a blast to explore. Almost any building or wall can be climbed, any person can be killed, you can go anywhere you want. There are investigative objectives before each target’s assassination (eavesdropping, pickpocketing, interrogation, etc). In addition, there are flags to collect (200 total), towers to climb (to reveal the map further), citizens to save from brutal soldiers (they help you later).
I’ll admit, I am an accountant in my 30’s, and NOT a hardcore gamer. I got this game for it’s historical context (I have an interest in the Medieval period and the Feudal era in Japan). I can be turned off by complex controls and button combinations. While the objectives are challenging, I found this game is easy to control. Both character movement and camera can be controlled with smooth accuracy.
Interestingly, the Knights Templar are your enemies. So you’re on the Scaracen side. 60 Templars around the map for you to find and take out. They are really just a side quest, as there are several main assassination missions. After each assassination, you get better weapons and new techniques become available(4 main weapons: long sword, short sword, hidden/sleeve blade, throwing knives). This is good because the guards and soldiers in Jerusalem and Acre are noticeably tougher than the ones in Damascus.
There are several approaches to just about anything you want to do. I started out fighting like Dynasty Warriors - on the ground in the middle of 5 soldiers - and they promptly sliced me up. Then I started learning to run up a wall to the roofs, and hack or knock them off as they climbed one by one up the ladder. Or I would sneak up behind one, stick my “hidden blade” in his throat, then quietly walk away before his buddies notice him slumping to the ground. Riding a horse appears more realistic than any game I’ve ever seen. The horse trotting and the character movements (especially when climbing) are amazingly real. Simply scaling a tower or doing a swan dive off the top into a haystack is enjoyable. (Hiding in hay or rooftop gardens for a few moments gets the heat off you if soldiers are looking for you.) After the 2nd mission, you gain the ability to perform a lethal counter-attack and do running, leaping assassinations with the hidden blade. Now that is a blast! Every guard in the vicinity is after you if you pull one of those!
I also started out fighting the guards around towers I needed to climb and kept getting killed. Then I figured out how to lure them away while riding a horse, then gallop back and climb quickly before they caught up. I tried running past them and climbing, but they throw rocks and knock me off. Now I am down to stealthfully assassinating each one just for fun. This is much harder to pull off around Jerusalem where the soldiers are much more alert and much tougher to fight.
Anyway, it’s a very cool, medieval era, virtual world to play in. You should give it a try!
3 Stars Love it one minute,hate it the next
I’m not going to go into the whole story about how I thought this game was great for the first few hours then got old.You can read any other review here to figure that one out.One thing that I have to talk about though are all the glitches.I’ve had the game freeze while I was running from guards a few times,I’ve had it freeze at the loading screen at least six or seven times since I started playing it.I’ve had crowds of people suddenly go mute and I can’t hear anything unless I restart the game again.
Honestly,there is no excuse for this.I know there are due dates and things need to be rushed sometimes,but I feel like I should be getting paid for playing this game and finding all the bugs & glitches in it.
The only things that kept me playing until the end were the graphics/setting,the story and the amazing soundtrack by Jesper Kyd.I almost got chills the first time I was walking through Jerusalem.The story was great also,although I wasn’t the biggest fan of the ending.
I really hope they make the sequel in the same setting,just with better gameplay and no freeze ups.If Ubisoft just puts some work into it,they can make the sequel live up to the potential the original had.
4 Stars nice game , with a nice graphics
this game is nice , and the graphics is nice , but it could be better
4 Stars Lots of Fun
This game is lots of fun, and it can go very far in the future. 
It’s not the usual game, which is refreshing. The story is strong, too. The sequels have the potential to be insanely awesome.
