Posted on: September 25, 2013

NnifWald

Games: 81 Reviews: 1

Great Idea, Good Game

The idea behind Assassin's Creed is a great one; survey the area, investigate your assassination target, and then finally go in for the kill. Unfortunately, the execution of this idea is not as good as it could have been. While fun the for the first half of the game, the investigation missions soon become repetitive, and you wish that the game would just cut to the chase. However, Assassin's Creed is a beautiful game that still looks great today, more than five years after its original release on April 8, 2008. The three cities in the game - Damascus, Acre, and Jerusalem - are absolutely massive and really come alive with around 45,000 fully rendered NPCs each, and I'll never forget seeing Jerusalem for the first time, or climbing the tallest building in the game. Unfortunately, the area connecting these cities isn't nearly as exciting. OVERALL SCORE: 7 out of 10

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Posted on: September 2, 2014

F4LL0UT

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Games: 1583 Reviews: 28

The very definition of wasted potential

Such freedom! Such cities! Yeah, Assassin's Creed does allow for some pretty amazing free movement in huge medieval cities - as a matter of fact this particular aspect of the game holds up to this day. But it's also pretty much all the game has to offer and frankly it's just an upgrade to what you saw in the Prince of Persia games (all of which were MUCH better games than AC). Combat is dull and the stealth mechanics are ridiculous. Unlike what one might expect AC is not like Hitman set during the crusades, it's a parkour simulator with some combat thrown in. And that's just sad, especially since the scenario and story are pretty cool. The huge problem with AC is that it provides a huge world that has nothing to offer. There's VERY few kinds of side missions (five I think) and they are so dull that you may already get bored the first time you try one of them. Climbing a tall structure and pressing a button for a nice view really isn't that awesome, Ubisoft. Neither is stabbing the exact same enemies over and over. And neither is collecting perfectly useless flags that are scattered throughout the game world. And what's worst is that not even the story missions are special in any way. They are always structured the same way: go to a place, watch a cutscene, kill the target (usually in open combat!), watch a cutscene, run away, watch another cutscene, next chapter. And "next chapter" means repeating the exact same dull side missions before you can continue the story. It doesn't help that the combat system is extremely simplistic (despite looking pretty awesome) and every enemy is fought the *exact same way*. Ubisoft certainly learned from many of the mistakes they made in Assassin's Creed and the sequels are far less repetetive. AC2 is actually already a decent sandbox game but sadly AC1 will always remain just a tech demo with a decent story. Let's hope that eventually Ubisoft will decide to release the later and much better AC games on GOG.

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Posted on: July 20, 2021

sep4258

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Games: 253 Reviews: 64

Simple, repetitive, but not bad

This is the start of the series, so the gameplay mechanics aren't as refined as in sequels. Which is expected, given this is the first game. Missions are quite repetitive - climb the towers to map the city, finish some of the side missions to obtain information and kill the target. Repeat. Note, that there are no subtitles in this game (at least the english version). Keep in mind you need to adjust the sound. Everything is maxed out by default and it can be hard to understand what characters say during cutscenes, unless you reduce the backround music. However, the setting is pretty unique. You will have opportunity to walk and parkour through three cities - Jerusalem, Acre and Damascus - during the time of crusades. The setting and atmosphere is what brought me to this game and what allowed me to overlook its shortcomings. The second however is Altair. Altair is badass and watching him to deal with enemies is joy. That's why I wasn't sick of saving the attacked citizen for the twentieth time. If you want to sea how the series started and you are willing to overlook its simplistic mechanics and repetitive mission design, give it a try.

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Posted on: July 22, 2021

xezao

Games: 61 Reviews: 4

A good game that has a nice story.

In the beginning, I had a good experience with the game. But time passed and the stories started to sound a little repetitive... AC1 is a good game that has a nice story with missions that become repetitive over time.

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Posted on: November 27, 2024

nyxs

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Games: 176 Reviews: 44

Had potential

I tried this shortly after release but got fed up with the Ubisoft onlnie nonsense. Purchased this hoping the removal of it made it slicker. Nope, The game is definately a console game and the PC version is a bloated mess that runs like treacle on a i7 with 16G of ram. Going to request a refund as it does not play smoothly at all on m system

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