No assassination can look more real than this.

User Rating: 9.5 | Assassin's Creed PS3
By sean-carsner | Review Date:
If your looking for a game where you can kill people silently with nothing left but a knife in a crowd, then you've found just the right game. Assassin's Creed delivers an incredible story that takes place in 1191 A.D. You play as Altair, a master assassin who has to kill the nine leaders of the crusades, not only because he was told to by his master, but because he's on to a whole conspiracy thats behind all this. As you play through, you start to figure out that the story isn't just Altair's life, but also a man named Desmond Miles who's life actually takes place in the future. You'll also learn that theirs a whole philosophy to the game, especially at the end which I won't give away for those of you that haven't played it yet.

In the beginning of the game, Altair gets demoted after a foolish move that he makes from trying to steal a treasure and looses most of his equipment because of it. In order to get his equipment back you must rank up by progressing in the game. At first, you'll start with a blade hidden in your finger that you can use to kill people from behind or sometimes in front if you're lucky. You'll also start with a sword and i think you can guess what you use that for. And eventually you'll get throwing knives that comes with a curved blade that you use to defend yourself just incase someone tries to kill you from close up, which seems to be just as effective as the sword. Now sword fighting in this game is actually pretty fun and can be challenging if you dont get your timing right when you try to counter others attacks by simply hitting square ,as your holding R1 and L1, right before the target lays an attack on you.

The visuals on this game is probably the best part about the game, due to the fact that everything looks so life-like that it could even be called the best graphics yet on a next-gen system. From every little detail on Altair to the buildings he climbs on, in which you can climb on practically anything in the game, is just amazing. Even the citizens of the three cities Damascus, Acre, and Jerusalem look and act pretty real. Every once in a while you'll see a homeless woman run up to you asking and begging for money, which can get incredibly annoying after a while, and drunk guys that beat on you for no reason, which is also incredibly annoying, especially when your trying to walk slow to hide from guards who are after you from an assassination or something like that.

The only thing that stopped this game from getting a perfect 10.0 is that their's nothing to do after you beat the game except save citizens that you haven't yet saved from guards that abuse them, find all the view points that you haven't already found, which help you see things on the map better, and collect all the flags hidden throughout the city. Other than that, this game is solid, just like Altair's perfectly assassinated victims.

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