Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Amazing"

Assassin's Creed is a great game for the 360.

The Good: Good graphics, easy fighting style, climbing buildings is fun, great re-play value. Great counter attacks, and free to do whatever.

The Bad: Sometimes it seems the guards are too stupid, and they may seem a little too suspicious at times. Story is a little confusing. And playing as D in the present can be a little boring and a waste of time, for the fact that you just want to get back to being Altar and explore the city more. You can't skip small parts of the cinematic.

It has solid graphics that make the city's look amazing and alive. As you walk around the city you are not just going through the motions but you feel apart of the city. Like how everyone reacts to what you do. I like how there are drunk people that push you and poor people that beg you for money. But at the wrong times they can be a pain. Like if you're trying to pick pocket a person and the drunk or the poor person gets in front of you, they can cause you to loose site of your target.

The fighting style of the game is easy to pick up for anyone. All you need to do is get used to which direction on the D-pad is what. It has a button for every instance you need during a fight. If you get grabbed, there is a break grab button. If you are getting attacked there is a counter button. Another good thing about the fighting style is it doesn't matter how many bad guys you are fighting at once. Due to the fighting system only one bad guy will attack you at a time. So that makes for some big and long fight scenes which are always fun. The better you are at fighting the longer you can last in a fight. The assassinations are fun to pull off at anytime. It makes it fun for the fact that you can assassinate anyone at almost anytime. By anyone I mean just some random guy walking down the street doing nothing, just a quick stab and no one understands what just happened. During the fighting you can kill your enemies many ways. You can just hack them by mashing "X"; you can do a skilled combo kill. Or you can counter their attacks and do a counter kill move. Or you can grab them throw them and finish them off with your hidden blade while they are on the ground. The counter kills are my favorite you just have to be patient and wait for them to come after you "no movements until necessary" is the way of an assassin. The animations for the counter kills are fun to watch. There are different counter kills that happen depending when you hit counter, from what way he is attacking you. Also there are different counter kills for the short sword and the normal sword.
Now let's talk about climbing the buildings. Climbing buildings around the city is probably the best part of the game. You can climb just about anything all the way to the top if you want. Jumping from roof to roof is a lot of fun and I wish I could do it in life. There is no better feeling jumping over the alley way with guards looking for you underneath you and you just barely make the jump to the ledge. As you hang there you look down and go phew that was close. Now when you are at top of most buildings you may have the ability to do a "leap of faith" which is a swan dive from the top to a pile of hay. Now you know when you are able to do this by at the top of the buildings you will see birds on the ledge of the building. Jumping off the top feels amazing and always fun to do. The higher the building the longer the fall the cooler it is.
One of my problems is that sometimes it seems that the guards are a little too stupid. Like come on, you are getting chased by them and you hop in a box on top of the roof. They just stand around and do nothing. Are you telling me no one would want to look in the box? I know it's for game sake that they don't because then it won't be far, but still it's a little much. The same goes for sitting on a bench in the middle of the street.
Now the story seems a little confusing by the jump from the past to the present at random times its weird. But you just need to pay attention to what's going on. As long as you really care and make it like a movie it does not seem that hard. Also what I don't like about the story is that you can not skip parts of the small cinematic. Like when you are in the assassin's bureau when the guy is telling you about unrelated stupid stuff I wish I could skip that. Now I'm not saying that I would skip it, but knowing that you are unable to, you are going to be stuck listening to it again when you play through a second time.
Now in conclusion Assassin's Creed is one of the better games out for the 360 now. And I believe that this is the game that everyone should play and own! This is the game that can never get old for a long time and will be apart of your game collection forever.