This is a beautiful game that will blow you away, even though it has some minor yet irritating flaws.

User Rating: 8.5 | Assassin's Creed PS3
By PlzDieNow | Review Date:
Assassin's Creed is a beautiful game in many ways. The environment and the people habiting it is extraordinary well illustrated with stunning graphics and a realistic appearance. The emotions you get while freerunning across rooftops, climbing high buildings or silently stalking your ignorant victims are each one of a kind. The combat-system is very well developed and suits perfectly with the PS3 controller, it really feels like you're executing every strike yourself (except maybe from the counter-attacks - where Altair performs a random fierce technique automatically when pressing the counter-button). The storyline is great and holds many intrigues although the patterns gets kind of repetitive after a while, but this is compensated by a massive change in gameplay during the last mission.

Well, even though Assassin's Creed is such a great, unique game it does have some disappointing and irritating flaws. For instance, though graphics are very nice, there are some minor moments where it seems like they didn't quite go all the way (something I find typical for Ubisoft). One of these moments is when Altair has climbed a high tower and sits on the edge of the lookout while scanning the beautiful area around him. The camera-view rotates around him, and if it wasn't for his robe melting together with the towers edge, this would have been one of the top highlights among game moments so far. It's just a shame that they didn't correct these minor errors, when the rest of the game is so beautiful.

As mentioned earlier, the story gets kind of repetitive since every mission starts with Altair riding out of his hometown to visit the location of his next victim, proceeds with the same number of methods of gathering information and - after the actual killing - ends with returning to his lair once again. This does not pose as a problem during the first play-through but makes it less encouraging to go at it a second time.

Nonetheless, Assassin's Creed is a excellent game and once you've played it through and put it away for awhile, the urge to live the life of Altair the Assassin will return and compel you to experience it several times over and over again.

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