Assassin's Creed has you play as Altair, a legendary assassin in the year 1191 A.D. That is all I will say about the story so that I don't accidently spoil it for you. It is something you need to experience for yourselves.
Altair has a few different weapons. They are a long sword, a short sword, throwing knives, fists, and the assassin's blade. The combat works well, but occasionally has its problems. Altair has amazing acrobatical abilities. He can climb, and leap over almost anything. Although, there is the occasional "WTF, I should be able to climb this." object. Also, the acrobat noves are also sometimes hard to use.
This leads us to the mission structure, which is the gameplays biggest fault. It is just too repetitive. You ride to the city, climb a few view points, then do at least 3 out of 5 missions, then assasinate the target. The missions are either eaves droppings, interogations, informer assations or flag collecting, and pick poketings. Repeating these same few mission types over and over isn't very fun and gets annoying after a while. Then there are also side quests like rescuing citizens, and collecting flags. Rescuing citizens helps you build up your health meter. But collecting the hundreds of flags scattered throughout the world seems like it was only added for achievements and have no effect on the story.
The sound in the game is good. There is some good music. The voice acting is the best part of the games sound. The people in the world sound like they are really from those parts of the world, (Jerusalem, Acre, Damascus, and Masyaf,) except Altair himself. Which is kind of lazily explained in the story.
That is the review. i reccomend that you rent Assassin's Creed first to see if you like it, or buy it used.
Altair has a few different weapons. They are a long sword, a short sword, throwing knives, fists, and the assassin's blade. The combat works well, but occasionally has its problems. Altair has amazing acrobatical abilities. He can climb, and leap over almost anything. Although, there is the occasional "WTF, I should be able to climb this." object. Also, the acrobat noves are also sometimes hard to use.
This leads us to the mission structure, which is the gameplays biggest fault. It is just too repetitive. You ride to the city, climb a few view points, then do at least 3 out of 5 missions, then assasinate the target. The missions are either eaves droppings, interogations, informer assations or flag collecting, and pick poketings. Repeating these same few mission types over and over isn't very fun and gets annoying after a while. Then there are also side quests like rescuing citizens, and collecting flags. Rescuing citizens helps you build up your health meter. But collecting the hundreds of flags scattered throughout the world seems like it was only added for achievements and have no effect on the story.
The sound in the game is good. There is some good music. The voice acting is the best part of the games sound. The people in the world sound like they are really from those parts of the world, (Jerusalem, Acre, Damascus, and Masyaf,) except Altair himself. Which is kind of lazily explained in the story.
That is the review. i reccomend that you rent Assassin's Creed first to see if you like it, or buy it used.