Set in the future trying to find what was in the past this game will have you killing people that are not even there.
Wait wait wait....What on earth is going on here? How on earth? What are you doing to my review of Assassin's Creed? Apollo creed is not even in this robot and nIther is the ice age....And there is no time travel...What have i told you...Never try to do another one of my reviews again...Got that. Right on with the real review.
As it says at the start Assassin's Creed is indeed a action-adventure open world stealth assassin game. but first i will cover the story of the game and the people in it before i look into the gameplay. Desmond Miles, a bartender, is kidnapped by the Abstergo Corporation. There, Desmond is forced to interface with the Animus, a device that is able to replay the genetic memories of the user's ancestors. In Desmond's case, they seek information about his ancestor Altaïr ibn La-Ahad, an Assassin during the time of the Third Crusade. Within the Animus, Altaïr's memories reveal that he was attempting to stop Robert de Sablé from taking an artifact from a temple, but broke all three of the Assassins' Brotherhood's tenets in the process. These arestay your blade from the flesh of an innocent. Always be discreet and do not comprimise the brotherhood. The Brotherhood leader, Al Mualim, demotes Altaïr to the rank of Novice, and assigns him the task of assassinating nine people to regain his former status.
As Altaïr completes the assassinations, he finds that each was a member of the Templars searching the area for Pieces of Eden, artifacts similar to the one de Sable attempted to steal. Altair finds and accuses de Sable in front of King Richard. King Richard makes the two fight and lets God decide who is telling the truth. Altaïr eventually faces de Sable in front of King Richard, and kills him. Richard says that since Altair killed de Sable God chose him and he was therefore telling the truth but Atair denies this by saying God had nothing to do with this and Altair was simply the better fighter, with his dying breath, de Sable reveals the existence of a tenth Templar: Al Mualim...As with my other reviews i am not going to tell you all of the story you are going to have to play the game to see how it ends...or should i say how it starts...
With the story out of the way its time to take a little look at the people in it. These are people you will meet and talk to and maybe even kill along the way:
Lucy Stillman, an aide and research assistant at Abstergo Industries.
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, the shining star of the Syrian sect of the Assassin Brotherhood.
Desmond Miles, a bartender and Altaïr's descendant.
Warren Vidic, a disgraced scientist and former Ivy League professor of ill repute.
Al Mualim, the Mentor of the Syrian Assassin Brotherhood.
Malik Al-Sayf the one-armed bureau leader and dai in the rich district of Jerusalem.
Jabal, the bureau leader and rafiq in the poor district of Acre.
bureau leader and rafiq in the poor district of Damascus.
Robert de Sable, a French Crusader and the eleventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Tamir, a Saracen black market merchant in Damascus.
Garnier de Naplouse, the tenth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier in Acre.
Talal, a Saracen slave trader in Jerusalem.
William of Montferrat an Italian Crusader and Richard the Lionheart's regent in Acre.
Jubair al Hakim, Damascus' Saracen chief scholar and leader of "The Illuminated".
Majd Addin, Saladin's regent in Jerusalem.
Sibrand, a German Crusader and the first Grand Master of the Knights Teutonic in Acre.
Maria Thorpe, Robert de Sable's steward.
Richard I, a.k.a. Richard the Lionheart, England's French "absent king".
The gameplay for Assassin's Creed has the player assumes the role of Altaïr, as experienced by protagonist Desmond Miles. The primary goal of the game is to carry out a series of assassinations ordered by Al Mualim, the leader of the Assassins. To achieve this goal, the player must travel from the Brotherhood's headquarters in Masyaf, across the terrain of the Holy Land known as the Kingdom to one of three cities Jerusalem, Acre, or Damascus to find the Brotherhood agent in that city. There, the agent, in addition to providing a safe house, gives the player minimal knowledge about the target, and requires them to perform additional recon missions before attempting the assassination. These missions include: eavesdropping, interrogation, pickpocketing and completing tasks for informers and fellow assassins. Additionally, the player may take part in any number of side objectives in these open world environments, including climbing tall towers to map out the city, and saving citizens who are being threatened or harassed by the city guards. There are also various side quests that do not advance the plot such as hunting down and killing Templars and flag collecting. After completing each set of assassinations, the player is returned back to the Brotherhood and rewarded with a better weapon and then given another set of targets.
Also in Assassin's Creed the player is made aware of how noticeable Altaïr is to enemy guards as well as the current state of alert in the local area. To perform many of the assassinations and other tasks, the player must consider the use of commands distinguished by its type of profile. Low-profile commands allow Altaïr to: blend into nearby crowds, pass by other citizens, or other non-threatening tasks that can be used to hide and reduce the alertness level; the player can also use Altaïr's retractable blade to attempt low-profile assassinations. High-profile commands are more noticeable, and include: running, scaling the sides of buildings to climb to higher vantage points, and attacking foes; performing these actions at certain times may raise the local area's awareness level. Once the area is at high alert, the crowds run and scatter while guards attempt to chase and bring down Altaïr. To reduce the alert level Altaïr has to break the guards' line of sight and then find a hiding space, such as a haystack or rooftop garden; or blend in with the citizens sitting on benches or wandering scholars. Should the player be unable to escape the guards, they can fight back using swordplay maneuvers.
As for the players health this is shown as the level of "Synchronization" between Desmond and Altaïr's memories; should Altaïr suffer injury, it is represented as deviation from the actual events of the memory, rather than physical damage. If all synchronization is lost, the current memory that Desmond is experiencing will be restarted at the last checkpoint. When the synchronization bar is full, the player has the additional option to use "Eagle Vision", which allows the computer-rendered memory to highlight all visible characters in colors corresponding to whether they are ally which is blue, foe which is red or even the target of their assassination which is gold. Due to Altaïr's memories being rendered by the computer of the Animus project, the player may experience "glitches" in the rendering of the historical world, which may help the player to identify targets, or can be used to alter the viewpoint during in-game scripted scenes should the player react fast enough when they appear.
Assassin's Creed came out for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in north america, europe, australia and japan in November 2007. It also came out for the PC in north america and australia in Apirl 2008.
The System requirements are:
Minimum:
Operating system:
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista.
CPU:
Intel Pentium D 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core) processor.
Memory:
512 MB (XP), 1 GB (Vista).
Hard drive space:
9.0 GB.
Graphics hardware:
256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher.
Sound hardware:
DirectX 9.0 or 10.0–compliant.
Recommended:
Operating system:
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista.
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or better/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or 4400+.
Memory:
2 GB.
Hard drive space:
9.0 GB.
Graphics hardware:
512 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card.
Sound hardware:
5.1 channel surround.
It is true that Assassin's Creed ius not a perfect game and it is also true that it is not the best one out of the lot but it does have somethring the others do not. Without this game there would not have been any other Assassin's Creed games. So if you enjoy them or you want to get started on these games then you might as well start here with this game.