The Eyes Of A Spectator

For Assassins Creed? Absolutely. That much I'll say at least before you read this, this is a review, and will most likely contain spoilers so read at your own discretion.

Now, I've been wanting to do this review for a long time now, and I still haven't beaten the game 100%, so forgive me on that part. I'll just have a little paragraph telling you a little bit about the game.

Ubisoft decided to make a game that would astonish the E3 people, and it did. With its trailer it looked a little good, but ordinary for me. Then a couple months later they had a demo, and the demo was what thrilled me, it wasn't an ordinary kill everyone game, you could run and grab onto objects and swing through them, climb huge buildings, it looked great! That's pretty much the whole game, and you go killing people and completing missions, its a good 2-5 day game.

What It Is.
Creed gives you a whole new level of freedom, and it's a pretty unique game. You can quite literally blend in with your surroundings, leap from building to building, spy on people, and run in every way you can imagine.

How It Works.
The creators of the game decided to just let people run freely, and that's completely what they gave us. You simple just hold the "socially unacceptable" button, yes it sounds stupid, and you run around doing whatever you want. It's simple most of the time, but sometimes it's a little hard to get what you want Altair to do for you.

My Experience.
There's one thing I don't like about this game, and that is the hardware requirement. I have an ATI X1600, which is a pretty decent graphics card, but the most I could get out of it was low settings on 1200 x 768 resolution. Even on low, it looks pretty amazing, I'm too sad I couldn't see all of the graphics on a higher degree. When they ported the game from PS3, and Xbox 360, they also upped the graphics a little, so I couldn't see the game to the fullest awesomeness. While I was playing on Vista, which was a huge mistake, the operating system crashed, and I had to restart the game over again after I installed XP. The game runs much much better on XP, than Vista, as with all games I suppose.

The Bad.
There isn't much bad. The gameplay can get boring after a couple hours, because it gets very repetitive, but that goes with most games. Failing a mission and doing it again also is complete drag, because you can't cut scenes, and it gets very annoying. Also, when your really far into the game, and have alot of synchronization points, your almost overpowered, as jumping from very high places, you can still live, whereas when you just start the game, you die very easily. Also, the way Altair moves is just plain awkward, have you ever seen a normal human being run like that? Blegh.

The Good.
The first thing is the graphics obviously, I haven't played it, but I've seen it in action. The way objects are put into the game are great, because it looks natural, but enough to know that you can cling onto it. The storyline is also very confusing, but it also grasps you. All-in-all its a wonderful game.

My Future Expectations.
The ending is very very hanging. It just hits you, and everyone who pretty much beat the game can safely say "Yeah, there's gonna be a sequel". If there isn't I'll be pissed, because the sequel will be amazing, or at least I think it. I think that, with some tweaks the game would be a very good step stone for future games.

My rating for this game.
I give this wonderfully crafted game a 9 out of 10, because of the level of detail put into it.