The first game I have ever played with a religious disclaimer.

User Rating: 9.5 | Assassin's Creed X360
By bryntkd | Review Date:
Assassin's Creed took me by surprise at first, but it was a much welcomed surprise. You play as two characters throughout the course of the game. You play as Desmond Miles, a bartender kidnapped by Abstergo, an organization that want's to study Desmond's genetic memories of one of his ancestors (using a kind of virtual reality machine called the animus). The ancestor in question is Altair, an assassin during the Third Crusade, the main playable character in the game. As Altair, you must reclaim your honor and position back in the brotherhood by assassinating 9 targets vital to both sides of the conflict with the hopes of not only bringing the war to a halt but to stop a more hidden nefarious goal. The game alternates back and forth between these two characters, with Altair's story dealing with most of the action and Desmond's story being more of a subplot. Altair, who starts out being an arrogant cocky jerk in the beginning of the game slowly changes his personality and views on the world after each target he kills, leaving him with a moral conundrum. This makes Altair an interesting protagonist, and it makes you wonder what he's going to do or say next.

Overall, in terms of graphics, the game looks great. The landscapes and cities are vast and gorgeous. The cities look and feel alive, with people trading, lecturing and begging through all the parts. Every stone, every window feels that it has another purpose besides being used to climb on. the character models in the game look great as well. I don't know how many minutes i spent just turning the camera to look at the detail in Altair's clothing. However, when in combat and you stab an enemy with the sword, it looks like one side of the sword is glued to the back and the other side to the front.

The controls are really simple and easy to master. And the only time the controls change are when you are locked on to a target or when you are on high profile, which are changed by one simple button hold (you hold right trigger to go into high profile and left trigger to lock on). The controls will become second nature as the game goes on, making playing the game alot easier. In terms of combat, you'll have the ability to counter attacks, which will be the cheap shot throughout the entire game.

In the game you travel across 4 cities, which are Masyaf (your home base), Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem. There is also the Kingdom, where you travel across to get to different locations. Although a pain at first due to the fact that there are soldiers that will come at you even if you're in low profile and to get across you need to find way points, you will be allowed to just automatically travel to a location after assassinating the first 3 targets. Each city has a rich, middle and poor district (with the exception of Masyaf). When you go to a city to assassinate a target, you have to go into the district and discover way points, which will give you more insight in the area. Then you go on fact finding missions about your targets, which include interrogations, pickpocketing eavesdropping and completing side quests for informants. You also can rescue civilians from corrupted soldiers, which will cause either vigilantes to come and protect you or scholars will appear that you can blend in with. Doing investigations and rescuing civilians will also increase your overall health, so it pays to repeat the process more times than i can count. Once you get enough info, you go an assassinate the target in a method of your choosing. needless to say, doing this process over and over again is very repetitive and can ruin the game play experience.

Overall, Assassin's Creed was a very enjoyable experience and I can't wait to play the second one soon.

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