Assassin's Creed®: Director's Cut

i feel like ths is when ubisoft tried.

When Assassin's Creed first came out, it broke new ground integrating unique parkour-style action with a beautiful rendition of the Near East during the Crusades. In some ways, the first Assassin's Creed plays more like a proof-of-concept, with a lot of repetition in combat and tedious gameplay dynamics that were smoothed out later in the series. For anyone interested in medieval Syria and Palestine, this game is a must-have. Despite occasional rough patches in the gameplay, the loving attention to detail in both architecture and historical atmosphere make Assassin's Creed shine.

The porting of this game to the PC is so abysmal, that is absolutely ruins any fun to be had. Not only does the interface remain identical to how it was on the console (which leads to a large number of problems, such as taking far too long to quit the game), but it crashes all the time. I was willing to deal with the terrible interface for a while, but when the game crashed just as I completed a long and frustrating mission, I gave up on this game. If you want it, buy it on a console. But don't bother with this piece of crap port.

Nice places, good story, fantastic graphics, charismatic character, just a bit repetitive, but 5 stars!

I have the physical disk for this game and I have played the story mission to the end. Since Ubisoft tried something new, some will excuse it, but the PC port is in fact called a Director's Cut (You're not a film studio Ubisoft) they at lest tried to fix some (but not all) issues. The graphics are nice, and I can wager they have aged better then most games from 2007, the soundtrack is memorable, good story (counting plot-holes here & there, some became bigger since Revelations) and since it's an open world game (more or less), you can go at it at your own pace. Here are my issues: the main menu is an absolute mess, to which Excel 2010 is more user friendly, lip syncing was far from good (but you can look away from that anyway), occasional bugs; biggest issues are 1. combat, 2. Unskippable cutscenes, 3. Altäir is water soluble & 4. Beggar women & Lepers. I have done some research into the console variants and have to say they done away with some issues: there is a fast travel option when leaving the castle & from the rafiq, as supposed to riding a horse to a location every time avoiding conflict as much as possible & they added more information gathering for the targets (variety a bit undermined, but whatever). Btw: the last mission & ending will be a kick in the teeth for everyone. All said if you can put yourself in the mindset it will pull you in. A tip: finishing the story mode gives an unspecified reward, but it's the most pleasant thing one can ask for afterthefact.