Assassin's Creed®: Director's Cut

Idea of AC was a breath of fresh air. Playing as a non-white protagonist and exploring different culture of Middle East with real cities rebuilt in the game is truly unique. This game introduced parkur mechanism and it is enjoyable to jumping roofs. What really drags AC down are two things: 1) A lack of story layers - Let me explain. The game felt way too long and repetitive. Moments including a story, either main or unique side story, are sparse. You will spend much time running, climbing and jumping around without any real progress in the story. 2) No subtitles - If English isn't your native language and you don't understand spoken English perfectly or you are hearing impaired, you won't enjoy the story. Almost everybody speaks with a heavy accent, people speak to you during battle roar. I would give 2/5 to this game because it wasn't really enjoyable gaming experience. I had to force myself to play AC. I missed plot details sometimes because a lack of subtitles and occasional bad sound balance, so I had to search for transcript. I don't want to play it again. However I didn't. Why? Because I stared in silent awe when I climbed on the highest tower in 12th century Damascus and saw that epic panorama of recreated real city. I like to listen to the great soundtrack. I liked to play as Syrian and meet Muslim characters who aren't terrorists for once. And because it opened doors and provided necessary background to the greatest episode in the series - Assassin's Creed 2.

Well, not really. Repetition is one of two problems of 'Screed - every mission is the same, and the side-quests are all just of four variations. This gets old really fast. The other problem is the ending, which is disappointing in that after a whole game of sneaking, blending and quiet assassinations is just one big fight-fest. But the plots, characters and truly gorgeous environment are all very strong points! And, fortunately, 'Screed 2 takes very good care of all that repetition.

Great game and start of a great series

This game started it all and brought a lot of innovation when it first came out. Climbing all the buildings the 3 massive cities have from the poor to the rich districts. The overall story of Assassin's Creed is quite original and mysterious at times. However the gameplay is quite repetitive and there is no sense of progress in the story inside the Animus, just about killing your 9 targets while doing the same activities trying to track them down. Combat system is good and flows well. Overall, the game is fun at times but don't expect much to change after killing your target, you'll pretty much be doing the same thing after but in another city.

I quite enjoyed Assassin's Creed; the story and the setting of Altaïr is great, and the story of Desmond in present day is an interesting one, however it is a bit annoying that you are pulled out of the gameplay just to go to bed and overhear a conversation. Yes it makes sense storyvise but it is an annoying happening some times. The controls seems pretty good - especially when using a controller (I used an Xbox One controller connected to my PC), there are a general annoyance when jumping and climbing where it sometimes is like Altaïr decides to do something that you did not believe you were doing - this I have also seen in other Assassin's Creed games. Generally it is a great game that I enjoyed both the gameplay, story, controls, graphics - and only had a few annoyances from. But highly recommending this game!