Great start - not so great finish!
Assassins creed is a new game by ubisoft monteal. You take on the roll of an assassin, but in reality you are nothing more than a bartender that got caught in a companies expiriment. In your DNA is a secret that the company wants so you are stuck in a machine and viola you are back to your assassin origians of your ancesters. Now on to the bread and butter!!
Game play - This is were the game lives by the sword and dies by the sword. When you first go into assassins creed you are excited because of the huge cities you get to explore. Running around and jumping, climbing stuff is a lot of fun at first, but over time it does seem a bit dull doing the same thing over, but one game doesnt have repitition? On a really strong note the cities are that cool and interactive you will want to climb buildings just to look around.
The battle system fits very well. You have your basic attack move where you will swing your sword, and then there is a very effective dodge move which will save your butt more times than you will know it. You get throwing knives which are also a lot of fun, standing on a roof and throwing down daggers on your enemy soldiers is fun and amusing, but there is a catch to all these neat tricks, and that is you have to start off as an assassin basicly starting from scratch to learn your masters respect, so you will have to play a first few sets of the missions before you aquire all your skills.
Graphics are very very well done on this game. The city looks amazing and the character models are just as good. This is one of those games were you literally can get caught looking at the scenery because it is that well done and amazing you can not help but stair at it. The animation is fluid with little to no frame rate drops. Only twice i had the frames drop and it wasnt anything really noticible! graphicly this game accomplished a lot!
Sound - Voice acting game me something left to desire. Altair's voice i thought was fitting, emotionaless assassin. The master of the assassins guild was also very believable and well done, but the rest of the characters were decent, but voice actinng does not take away from this game at all!
Game play sounds are well done from the clashing of the swords to just basicly running around and doing your thing in each individual city. The sounds of your actions and the actions around you are very well done.
Closing comments on Assassins creed is, the game is a lot of fun and is very exciting when first starting out, but as time goes on and you assassinate more targets the game does become a bit more dry, you have to interigate people and listen on people and pick pocket people every time you need to assassinate a target. Lucky there are 6 targets and you only have to do 3, but to get an achievment in this game you will have to get all 6 for each assassination! 13 hours of game play is about average to beat, and that i with doing most of the achievments like i did. Over all assassins creed is a unique and very well made game and no one will suffer giving this game a try!!