If you are used to today's games graphics, you'll probably be uncomfortable at the beginning, but I advise you to ignore it, 'cause its story it's great! The gameplay is very much the same as those RPG Games like Diablo, Divine Divinity, etc... You click on your enemies to attack though your camera is over your shoulders — it's a combat a bit strange for this sort of camera, but it's easy to get used to. My only problem with this game is the performance. A very recurrent drop frame though I've got a PC powerful enough to play this game without worries. I used DXVK and it stabilized the unstable performance a bit.
I'm on "New Life" level right now and I can say for now that this game is much more easy than Silent Assassin and Contracts. I'm being able to do Silent Assassin classification in all levels so far. The models' graphics resembles quite with the Hitman Contracts, but with 7th generation improviments as a better lighting and as well a more detailed character models. The 47 movements is more smooth than Contracts, but, a side the new system of spending money to cover your tracks in the level summary, the game is pretty much the same as Contracts. The IA still will mess with your gameplay, but it's something that you can workaround as you learn how their behaviors work. Obs: The game is running fine in my system without any type of crash problems; I'm using Win10 Pro 21H2.
I first met the AC franchise through AC 4 and it was an amazing experience. So, I had the idea to play through the whole saga and, as it is the first franchise game, and the ideas that will emerge later in the next games are still unknown, it is convincingly good. As you will see in this user reviews section, the game follows a cake recipe. 3 cities — Damascus, Acre, Jerusalem —, 3 distinct districts — poor, medium, rich —, 3 targets for each city — 3 cities + 3 districts = 9 targets. The way that you will get the assassinations done follows the same recipe too; you will coerce, steal, eavesdrop. Finally, all the games have their stories connected somehow. So, if you want to understand the whole plot behind this secular battle between Temples and Assassins since its beginnings, it's a title you can't overlook — since its events are later mentioned in AC Revelations.
