Assassin's Creed®: Director's Cut

I played this many times on the xbox. The game doesnt recognize a xbox one wired controller. the trigger buttons does not work. It initially but not anymore for some reason. I personaly liked Altair. He started off a jerk but eventually grows in chracter. I thought the story was really cool and interesting. Climbing buildings and fighting guards is always fun. Overall a great game, I would reccommend it.

I bought that game from a bargain bin a few years ago at a good price (8 euros) and played it. However I ieft it at some point and here's why: 1.First of all, the plot is bad. I mean, the main hero , Desmond, sits all day in a machine (the Animus, I know) and is a prisoner of Abstergo. A totally pathetic role.Plus I didn't like his character. 2.I preferred Altair, however I found him too obedient to his chief and having generally a lack of free thought. I didn't also like, while finding the stealth and killing quite to my fancy, the fact that I was being ordered to kill people I barely knew (I guess that's why the game tries to prove just how bad these guys, the assassination victims, are) 3.Also, the game after a point gets repetitive(in short, I got bored of constantly killing people) and it totally sucks that Altair can't swim (many times I drowned accidentally). Despite all these however, I fancied climbing on towers to watch down from there and saving people from the "bad" crusaders (After all, Altair is a faithful Muslim Arab and against the crusaders). In general, it's a game worth purchasing if you decide you don't care about the plot (which is very uninspired, to the point that I think that if that game was a book, it wouldn't sell well) and fancy being stealthy and touring the Holy Lands.

This game was amazing when it first came out. The graphics are pretty decent especially for being a 7 year old game. It has a great story behind it. The cities are huge and are a lot of fun to run throughout the cities. I started playing the series with AC3. It was a decent game and then I had bought black flag. I haven't gotten unity yet but out of the ones I have played nothing beats the 1st AC.

I bought this during a sale because Assassin's Creed was said to be a milestone in action game design. I guess this is a console port. Every bit of it feels like a console game. * you are constantly told what to do, what button to press (serious games should teach you techniques and let you apply them yourself) * context sensitive movement looks great but it makes the controls feel squishy and the character looks clunky when he does not do what you expected * the menu speed is awfully slow; it takes like 5 minutes until you are actually in game * forces walking and unskippable dialogue in cutscenes * achievements and collectible-everything Do not get me wrong: Climbing towers, surveying the land and jumping down again is awesome. I just wished the game would empower me more and not hold or restrain my hand all the time.

I went into this expecting a stealth action game similar to Thief. However, while there is technically a stealth system in the game, it's both useless and unnecessary. The path of least resistance is almost always to fight, not to sneak, and about half of the time stealth isn't even an option. Which wouldn't be a problem if the combat system were any good, but instead the combat system works has all of the depth of Guitar Hero with the frets removed: wait for an enemy to attack, counter-attack, repeat. Then there's the whole sci-fi side plot that seems to serve no purpose other than to break immersion in the historical fiction parts of the game and to lampshade the limits of the game. And the repetition. And the repetition. And the repetition.