UbiSoft Assassin's Creed (XB360)

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Rating: 8.5 8.58

Assassin?s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin?s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change.The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

bit-tech Review

"Assassin's Creed could have been so much more: given better enemy AI, more variation in the missions and a more coherent storyline, this could have been a game that lived up to the hype. Unfortunately, what we have is a game with amazing graphics and not much else.

The gameplay on it’s own isn’t really that bad, but it’s far from the hyped up genre defining spectacular we were all lead to expect. The brutal reality is that because the game tries to be a jack of all trades it ends up as a master of none. There are better stealth games out there and better platformers and third-person shooters too. For plot, there are more convincing science fiction games and more interesting historical games.

How exactly the game managed to build so much hype on just a handful of screenshots and a trailer or two, I’m not sure. It feels a bit like a developers conceit, and the game has been sold on the one thing it lacks; innovation and originality. The game ends up as entirely average." - 27th November 2007

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