Nothing original here
You take on the role of Altair, an assassin attempting to recover an ancient item called The Chalice, the game itself looks like it was ripped out of Mideval times and slapped into a Middle Eastern setting sometime in the 1600's and the story plays out like it as well. The story itself is not all that interesting and just seems rushed, as the game itself won't take you more then 10 hours to complete if you know what to do. There are multiple difficulties which is a good thing considering even on easy, the later levels enemies are annoying and hard to kill.
The combat is typical button mashing, x and y are attacks and combos are formed with those two buttons. You get a variety of weapons to kill your enemies with though and your sword strength and health bar can be upgraded with orbs that you find. Running up to a wall will allow you to run up it once you have unlocked the ability, you will eventually obtain a grappling hook and other weapons like a crossbow and daggers for slaying enemies at range. Overall the controls can be somewhat annoying when it comes to combat and the layout plays pretty much like Prince of Persia in that regard as well. You spend more time trying to avoid enemies and death traps like steam which kills you instantly, then actually fighting. The touch screen is used for stealing keys or applying pressure points ala Elite Beat Agents kind of controls.
While it is a decent spin off, this entry of the Assassin's Creed franchise is nothing to get excited about since it really is not all that original.