Creed: Leap of Blind Faith

User Rating: 9 | Assassin's Creed PS3
This is certainly a visual game. Personally, I felt the graphics were quite solid, voice acting was very well done even if the lips didn't always sync.

It helps that the game is able to stream easily between cutscene moments & the "normal" free roam view. I liked that it didn't appear to change the setting when you were eavesdropping. The only time this happened was with assassinations & that added an element of closeness between the characters.

Story was a bit slow to start, but it picked up as I kept at it and I came away from it generally liking it. I'm always fickle with endings so I'll just focus on the main arc & I thought it kept moving at a good pace overall. IMO, the ending was both great & meh at the same time.

I really enjoyed the action tho from climbing to fighting to jump assassinations. The fun factor of this alone makes for great replay value.

Tediousness & small misc gripes: drowning, freezing loading screens, the fog loading screen wasn't a favorite of mine before it froze tho, the same basic type of tasks for conducting research, & so little interaction in "other" portion of the story.

I liked the pedestrians in the cities (including & except) poor beggars who were annoying & not for the reasons they should have been, but because they didn't have enough unique lines for as prevalent as they were. I know they're suppose to annoy me to create that effect of how bad things could be in that time period, but I shouldn't want to punch them for saying the same thing that the last beggar said. Being shoved around by the mentally handicapped was annoying as well. Why am I the only person they were shoving? or that beggars were begging?

I thought this was a great game overall & I don't think the "flaws" should force it any lower than a 9 - twists & all.