Assassins Creed

This game, Assassins Creed, seems at first brilliant but by the time you near the end you realise it's not a full game as in its the start of what could be a nine part story, thats o.k but at 49 pound a pop an expensive collection and you don't realise till the end of the game, maybe wait till you can buy them all for 5 pound! Graphics are probably the best I've seen, large world to roam.

The game was up-tempo and I loved all the special effect fighting and storylines. Also, the graphics were amazing and I thought it was good to have an assassin wearing white instead of black for a change, since he bended in better with his desolet surroundings.

Over all, a enjoyable game that could of been made longer

This is a game I would recommend because of its grand scale quality and graphics, the game its self is enormous with several city layouts each miles away from each other giving them a grander scale, all separated by a huge country land with lots to see and do along the way. Well recommend Assassins Creed for the ps3.

This is an excellent game and shows what the PS3 can do, the start is a little confusing and the controls too, once the game has actually started everything starts to fall into place, the roaming is excellent and the missions very good, the fighting can seem a little repetitive but it does not spoil the game overall. Excellent game and well recommend Assassins Creed.

This was like combining the 2 best games of all in my opinion. I love this game and can't wait sor the sequel.

It's fair to say Assassins creed was ever so slightly hyped and with massive hype normally leads to disappointment, This I'm afraid was the case with the above-mentioned title. The game was sold as the journey of a disgraced assassin trying to win back honour by taking out a range of targets, Thief meets Hitman based in a pre medieval Grand theft auto free roaming style setting had pretty much everybody salivating at just the thought, unfortunately this was not to be. Don't get me wrong this game is good but the fact with a little more effort this game could have been great.

Okay starting with the bad points,

1) Every great move is only a button away; This has to be one of the worse things of this game. All the fantastic moves you saw in the trailers are pulled off by holding R1 and X. This includes climbing, balancing, Leap of faith, and jumping building to building, All your combat is pulled off in a similar fashion but in this case you press L1 and Square or if you want to kill someone in a almost cut scene type of way then R1 and square will pretty much cover it,

2) Character types, If the above is the worst then 3 and 4 are the most irritating, There are a few basic character types which takes away from the fact everyone looks different, This may sound strange so please let me explain myself, Firstly you have civilians which are everyone except the following,

Thiefs who you pickpocket knives from who are burly characters who are large compared to everyone else,

Crazies who are stripped to their waists and will hit you if you get to close,

Really annoying wailing women who cling to your character asking for money,

Guards who are everywhere and I mean everywhere,

Archers who are just dagger bait,

Vigilantes who are normally dressed in black,

And clergy who are very confidently placed.

3) The background dialogue, This vexes as in the case when you save a civilian from bully's you only get one of a couple of dialogues (around 2 for male civilians and 2 for females) This is made worse by the amount that need saving as you get the same dialogue spoken by the same people which cheapens the experience, same goes for the wailing women who all say exactly the same thing.

4) Haven't I already done this before, This game is super repetitive and you will find the majority of your gaming time been built up of

Meeting up with the master assassin

Leaving and meeting up with the assassin trainer to learn how to use a new skill

Leaving and heading through the nearby village to get to your horse

Riding your horse to a strange gate which acts as a cross road and allows you

to decide which city to explore

Following the path to the city

Getting into the city by either blending in with the clergy, climbing around them or fighting or running through them,

Visiting the local assassins bureau and getting your target and city location

Climbing highest points to update your map and find tasks to complete which they're are 4 types, Informant, pick pocketing, interrogation, or eves dropping

Picking 3 of the available tasks and completing them

Going back to the assassin's bureau and getting the okay for the hit

Taking out guards and archers to aide in your escape

Watch a small clip showing how evil your target is

Kill your target

Watch a small clip showing how you may be mistaken in thinking your target is evil

Running back to the bureau making sure you lose the guards before you get there

Getting the all clear and then meeting back up with the master assassin

Rinse and Repeat

5) Where are all the Archers, The thing that makes this game feel most hollow is that when you kill say an Archer nobody cares and nothing is done, In a game like Hitman it would result in a full blown fire fight and normally results in you dying, in this game, somebody scream and then a guard says something like who did this, and then if your not hanging around nothing seems to happen, The threat level increases but unless its on red it doesn't really change anything.. Also the true lack of stealth in this game loses the assassin edge a little, everything ends up with a full blown fight which makes you think your missing the point of an assassin game somewhat.

Okay then, well that's a lot of negativity but its not all bad as a lot of the above things are very small but have been added because a little bit more time could have rectified them quite quickly

Positives

1) As far as the eye can see, The graphics and draw distances in this game are amazing, the detail really shows the power of the next generation of consoles, Sometimes its just nice to stand around or scale a tower and just admire how beautiful this game really is,

2) Excuse me coming through, The streets in this game are crowded full of people who react and move realistically as you pass, You can carefully push them aside or you can barge into them and send them flying the choice is completely yours, Also if they have a pulse they can die which can be useful at times depending on whether you need to create a distraction or are just fed up with getting punched by a crazy. The one thing this amount of on screen characters creates is a sense of realism and also a sense of size, Jumping from rooftop to rooftop you can still see people going about their daily lives,

3) I'm telling you I saw it move, Each city is alive with personality, each has its own design and its own style which adds nice depth to the game, The cities are the game really with most of the enjoyment coming from checking out the areas whether its from the ground or from rooftops. The design of the city means that most buildings are climbable as well as platforms and small walls. This gives complete freedom as your never ever run out of different ways to go.

4) Things to do, there are plenty of other things to do in the game, such as collect flags, collect flags in succession in a given time period, and killing templar knights as well as protecting civilians and scaling all towers, This gives the game slightly more playing time, which so far makes this one of the longer games on the PS3

5) I'm frozen in time. You might think that a glitch, which freezes the game, should be added to the negative but I don?t, this is because all you have to do is hook your PS3 up to the net and download the patch which does fix this problem, So as its no longer a problem it's a positive and to make it a bigger positive I would just like to say that this game doesn't seem to lose frame rate no matter how much action is on the screen,

So all in all a good game that missed out at greatness by a cats whisker