Assassin's Creed
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Initially he fails in slaying the leader of the Templars, leading to his dishonor and almost his excecution. His sect leader AL Mualim orders him to assassinate the nine historical figures who are propagating the Crusades, and the suffering of the people. As the gamer finds and kills these targets, their conspiracy is unveiled. The player will be able to travel through three cities, Jerusalem, Acre, and Damascus.
The game tells two stories simultaneously. One is that of a young assassin named Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad. He was a master assassin for an organization called the Hashishin during the Crusades, in the late 12th century. And the other is about one of his Altaïr's descendants, a bartender named Desmond Miles living in the near future.
In the year 2012, Miles is kidnapped by a huge corporate conglomerate known as Abstergo Industries. They need to get secrets out of his genetic memory -- specifically, certain aspects of his ancestor Altaïr's life. The machine, known as an Animus, renders genetic memories in 3D. Unfortunately Desmond does not possess the confidence to step into the proper memory of his ancestor, Altaïr. As such he must work his way to the target memory, carrying out 9 assassination quests that were given to Altaïr.
Altaïr’s story begins with him trying to retrieve The Piece of Eden from Solomon’s Temple at the start of the game, which is the catalyst for the game’s events. In his mission to retrieve the Piece of Eden Altaïr breaks all three tenets of the Assassin’s Creed to try and kill the Templar, Robert IV de Sablé, who is obstructs Altaïr’s quest. As punishment for this Al Mualim, leader of the Assassins demotes Altaïr to initiate, leading to the 9 assassinations he must commit throughout the game.
As the game progresses, Altaïr finds that the men he was ordered to kill are all connected through the Templars, and Desmond finds out that his captors are the modern day Templars. The goal of Abstergo Industries is "The piece of Eden" a mythical object that can hypnotize the masses with mind control. The piece was lost in the past, and eventually Altaïr finds out where it is, only to have Abstergo go retrieve it in the real world. While the company initially intended to kill Desmond, the assistant Lucy, a secret member of the modern day assassin's guild, convinces them to let him live. The story ends with Abstergo moving on the pieces of Eden leaving the story open for an obvious sequel.
Assassin's Creed invokes the design concept of Abilitease rather early on in the game. In this case, Altaïr is cocky, fails a mission for his guild, and is stripped of his rank and much of his equipment. You'll embark on a quest to eliminate targets to prove your loyalty and dedication to the assassins' cause. The basic gameplay in Assassin's Creed involves Altaïr being told of his next target and their general location. From there, you must travel to the city in question and begin to investigate your target. Investigations take the form of side-missions and basic tasks, such as pick-pocketing information, eavesdropping, or interrogating folks to gain knowledge. Other side missions have you completing tasks for other assassins, such as collecting a bunch of flags in a rooftop race against the clock.
The player can travel to any city by traveling through an area known as the kingdom. In this area, enemies are extremely aggressive and numerous, but the player has the advantage of being on horseback, allowing him to flee quickly.
The free-running system is very easy to master compared to Assassins's Creed's sister project, Prince of Persia. Simply holding down the 'legs' and 'free-running' buttons allows you to jump and climb automatically. Every structure has some way of climbing it except for the cities walls.
Though it is very forgiving, Assassin's Creed is ostensibly a stealth game. If you are spotted by guards while in the act of something devious, or if you do something out of the ordinary while they are on high alert, they will activate and give chase. Once you break the pursuing guards' line of sight, you can lose them by hiding in piles of hay, ducking into rooftop gardens, and so on.
Optional Tasks
Throughout the game, there are numerous flags that the player may collect. Every area has a different set of flags and each set can contain up to 100 flags. Also throughout the game, the player can encounter fierce Templars, that excel at hand to hand combat and are difficult to beat with force alone. There are 60 that the player can kill.
Assassin's Creed divided the press, as one of the holidays more anticipated titles, some outlets (Such as Gamespot) believed it to be an extraordinary game, and gave it "Triple-A" scores, while others believed that it was quite average and repetitive, and had been over-hyped by a manufactured press cycle. Scores ran the gamut, with Assassin's Creed receiving 10s from some print outlets, all the way down to a 4.5 from one of the three reviewers in Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game has an average of 80 on Metacritic, putting it as an above average title. The game similarly divided gamers, and the game's validity as a great product is still hotly debated.
The initial release of Assassin's Creed has done very well for Ubisoft, selling millions of copies and spawning a spin-off game for the DS. Ubisoft was surprised by the sales and released this statement:
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Assassin's Creed puts you in the shoes of Altair during the third crusade as you use your weapons to silently end the lives of your enemies in this stealth action game from Ubisoft's Montreal studio.
Overview
Assassin's Creed is a video game by Ubisoft. The game takes place during the Third Crusade, exact year 1191. The gamer plays as a member of the assassin sect Hashishin known as Altaïr.
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Plot
A blade in a crowd
In the year 2012, Miles is kidnapped by a huge corporate conglomerate known as Abstergo Industries. They need to get secrets out of his genetic memory -- specifically, certain aspects of his ancestor Altaïr's life. The machine, known as an Animus, renders genetic memories in 3D. Unfortunately Desmond does not possess the confidence to step into the proper memory of his ancestor, Altaïr. As such he must work his way to the target memory, carrying out 9 assassination quests that were given to Altaïr.
Altaïr’s story begins with him trying to retrieve The Piece of Eden from Solomon’s Temple at the start of the game, which is the catalyst for the game’s events. In his mission to retrieve the Piece of Eden Altaïr breaks all three tenets of the Assassin’s Creed to try and kill the Templar, Robert IV de Sablé, who is obstructs Altaïr’s quest. As punishment for this Al Mualim, leader of the Assassins demotes Altaïr to initiate, leading to the 9 assassinations he must commit throughout the game.
As the game progresses, Altaïr finds that the men he was ordered to kill are all connected through the Templars, and Desmond finds out that his captors are the modern day Templars. The goal of Abstergo Industries is "The piece of Eden" a mythical object that can hypnotize the masses with mind control. The piece was lost in the past, and eventually Altaïr finds out where it is, only to have Abstergo go retrieve it in the real world. While the company initially intended to kill Desmond, the assistant Lucy, a secret member of the modern day assassin's guild, convinces them to let him live. The story ends with Abstergo moving on the pieces of Eden leaving the story open for an obvious sequel.
Gameplay
Climb everything!
The player can travel to any city by traveling through an area known as the kingdom. In this area, enemies are extremely aggressive and numerous, but the player has the advantage of being on horseback, allowing him to flee quickly.
The free-running system is very easy to master compared to Assassins's Creed's sister project, Prince of Persia. Simply holding down the 'legs' and 'free-running' buttons allows you to jump and climb automatically. Every structure has some way of climbing it except for the cities walls.
Though it is very forgiving, Assassin's Creed is ostensibly a stealth game. If you are spotted by guards while in the act of something devious, or if you do something out of the ordinary while they are on high alert, they will activate and give chase. Once you break the pursuing guards' line of sight, you can lose them by hiding in piles of hay, ducking into rooftop gardens, and so on.
Optional Tasks
Throughout the game, there are numerous flags that the player may collect. Every area has a different set of flags and each set can contain up to 100 flags. Also throughout the game, the player can encounter fierce Templars, that excel at hand to hand combat and are difficult to beat with force alone. There are 60 that the player can kill.
Press
Assassin's Creed divided the press, as one of the holidays more anticipated titles, some outlets (Such as Gamespot) believed it to be an extraordinary game, and gave it "Triple-A" scores, while others believed that it was quite average and repetitive, and had been over-hyped by a manufactured press cycle. Scores ran the gamut, with Assassin's Creed receiving 10s from some print outlets, all the way down to a 4.5 from one of the three reviewers in Electronic Gaming Monthly. The game has an average of 80 on Metacritic, putting it as an above average title. The game similarly divided gamers, and the game's validity as a great product is still hotly debated.
Sales
The initial release of Assassin's Creed has done very well for Ubisoft, selling millions of copies and spawning a spin-off game for the DS. Ubisoft was surprised by the sales and released this statement:
"Assassin's Creed has greatly outstripped Ubisoft's sales expectations and currently ranks among the top two or three best-selling games for the Playstation 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox360 video game and entertainment system in the vast majority of geographical regions. In less than four weeks Assassin's Creed recorded more than two and a half million units in sell-through sales worldwide, and is the fastest-selling new video game intellectual property ever in the U.S. Consequently, Ubisoft now forecasts that it will sell a minimum of five million units of the game in 2007–08 compared with its previous estimate of approximately three million"
The spin-off for the DS serves as a prequel to Altaïr's adventure in the console game. The game has also gotten recognition from Hideo Kojima and the team responsible for Metal Gear Solid, who have added a version of Altaïr's costume as an unlockable bonus in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Ubisoft has stated their desire to iterate on the franchise, although nothing has been shown yet.
A PC only "Directors cut edition" was released that included several added mission types that didn't make it into the final version of the game.
Altaïr's first name is derived from an Arabic word related to “flying” or “the bird”. His last name, Ibn-La'Ahad is literally translated from “son of none”. These two elements surface in Altaïr's character as his eagle-styled tunic and cowl and being the child of both Christian and Muslim faiths.
In an interview with Jade Raymond, she revealed that one of the main influences for the game had been a book written by Vladimir Bartol with the name "Alamut", which takes palce in the very same castle featured in Assassin's Creed. Several of the game's characters resemble those of their counterparts in the book, although they are not named the same, and the castle of Assassin's Creed very much resemble the descriptions given in the book. Even the game tagline, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted", is a direct copy from "Alamut".
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium D Dual Core @ 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 3800
Memory: 1 GB for XP/2 GB for Vista
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB (GeForce 6800/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
OS: Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 4400
Memory: 1 GB for XP/2 GB for Vista
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB (GeForce 6800/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c or 10
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
XBOX 360 Controller
Assassin's Creed requires 6.7GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.
A PC only "Directors cut edition" was released that included several added mission types that didn't make it into the final version of the game.
Origins
Altaïr's first name is derived from an Arabic word related to “flying” or “the bird”. His last name, Ibn-La'Ahad is literally translated from “son of none”. These two elements surface in Altaïr's character as his eagle-styled tunic and cowl and being the child of both Christian and Muslim faiths.
In an interview with Jade Raymond, she revealed that one of the main influences for the game had been a book written by Vladimir Bartol with the name "Alamut", which takes palce in the very same castle featured in Assassin's Creed. Several of the game's characters resemble those of their counterparts in the book, although they are not named the same, and the castle of Assassin's Creed very much resemble the descriptions given in the book. Even the game tagline, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted", is a direct copy from "Alamut".
PC System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium D Dual Core @ 2.6 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 3800
Memory: 1 GB for XP/2 GB for Vista
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB (GeForce 6800/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2 GHz or Athlon 64 X2 4400
Memory: 1 GB for XP/2 GB for Vista
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB (GeForce 6800/ATI Radeon X1600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c or 10
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
XBOX 360 Controller
Xbox 360 Game Installation
Assassin's Creed requires 6.7GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.
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