Amazing, lush, but repetetive.
User Rating: 8 | Assassin's Creed PS3
The first hour or so playing the game is really cool. Assassinating targets, sneakily killing the guards that might be a threat, or just running into a city and slaughtering everyone and everything. But after the first hour or so, it gets a bit repetitive, get information, find the target, kill the target, rinse and repeat. A bit too repetitive. You do get knew abilities and stuff, but that just helps you do the repetitive stuff. But, and that's a big but, it is a lot of fun. Free running on the buildings, trying to lose the guards who are after you. The amazing, lush graphics of the buildings. The viewpoints. All this makes it a great game to buy. The story is enough to keep you playing on it's own. Full of twists and turns. The gameplay is good and the weapons are really cool. The hidden blade is probably the coolest one, but throwing a throwing knife and watching it slowly twirling off into the distance, so graceful. Then you see the victim fall over with a knife in the back. The fighting is good. Instead of mashing the buttons to try and kill the enemy, a well timed attack is what you need to dispatch them quickly. Do it right and you get a nice, if a bit gory, close up of you killing them in one, swift, counter attack. But, if possible, stay ot of fights. The amount of guards that gather around trying to kill you can become very big. But then again, you are a master assassin. That's enough of a reason to get this game I suppose. A very good game all-in-all.
