Assassin`s Creed: Inovative yet tedious
Nothing can quite describe Assassin`s creed. Its beautiful visuals, its cities which are bristling with life, danger, and corruption, and its engaging combat. You play as Altair, a trained assassin who`s rank stripped from him and forced to earn it back by killing nine important people to stop their corruption.
Altair has a wide variety of weapons in his arsenal. He has an hidden blade, that can kill enemies with great speed and ease whilst being unnoticed. A sword, which is the main weapon of choice when battling head on into a battle. A dagger that performs bloody counters that usually end up in instant kills. He also has throwing knives, which can dispatch enemies from a distance.
Altair is not only trained to fight however. He could climb almost every building in assassin`s creed, taking hold of ledges, cracks in the walls, bricks, and any other sort of objects that seem climbable. This is something brilliantly pulled off by Ubisoft, allowing the player to explore the urban cities in ways other free roaming games like the grand theft auto series have not.
The controls in this game are fluid and easy to use. They do not feel clunky in any way and its just amazing how Altair climbs and freeruns in the city while your just pressing a WASD button.
The goal of each mission in this game is to assassinate a person. To locate the person you must assassinate, you must go around the city and investigate. When you have completed the desired amount of investigations, the location of the target you must assassinate will appear on your GPS. This is however assassin`s creed greatest downfall, its investigations. To locate informers that give you information on your target, you must go and climb towers to get your GPS updated with the location of them. By the time you finish the game, you probably climbed towers too many times to count. When you finally find the informers, you would think that things would get less repetitive, but that is not the case. The informers you find during the game will give you the same old missions to do to get information out of them. Go assassinate 5 of these, get all 16 flags under three minutes, and so on. At the end of an investigation process, you will be tasked to kill a major target. When you kill the target, there will always be a brief cutscene that is very interesting.
Assassin`s creed is a good game, no doubt about that, but if Ubisoft added more diversity in investigation missions to Assassin`s creed, then it would have lived up to it`s potential.
The verdict:
Story: 8
Graphics: 9.5
Gameplay: 8.5
Sound: 8.5
Overall: 8.5 (not an average)
