Rise through the ranks and shove that blade between his ribs.
Now you start off as Desmond. He's a local bartender and he's been kidnapped so a coupel scientists can use him as a guinea pig on their new toy: "Animus". Animus lets you go into your DNA and access Memories of your ancestor that has been embeded into your DNA. Altair, the assassin is Desmond Ancestor and this nutjob of a scientist wants to exploit Desmond to get information so his bosses won't sack him.
Altair, an assassin by skill and of renown. Expert swordsman and acrobatics extraordinare. He so graceful, you might think he's dancing rather than killing. That is just how fluid and perfect his character animation is. The acrobatics feel jsut about right, if not a little off. But then if this were any faster, I seriously doubt it would run as smoothly. The fight scenes are slow, but tactful. Guards fight you one on one instead of all of them charging at you. The assassinations with your hidden blade look so sick. You can eve nfeel abit of the pain when that 8 inch blade penetrates the skin of that unlucky begger or that one drunk who was just a plain jerk. In addition to these weapons. You also have a limited supply of throwing knives. They are essentialy OHKs, but only to regular enemies.
The acrobatics is just plain fun. Who doesn't like "Parkour" videos on youtube? Well, in Assassin's Creed. You can do all those jumping stunts that you wouldn't be crazy, nor flexible, enough to do in reality. Imagine this; the guards know your there somewhere and you've killed someone. What do you do? Should you kill all the guards? Should you run away? Or should you climb a nice big tower and perform a leap of faith into a haystack? I prefer the latter just for the fun of seeing Altair jump into the air spread eagle.
The missions are all about assassinating a few select individuals who have, in some way, grabbed the attention of your Creed Master. You must kill them and report back to your Master to rank up and gain new abilities and such.
The fighting is somewhat difficult to master early on. I took a couple hits because I was completely clueless. Then I realised the button scheme and performed several chains of counters. You are later stripepd of your abilities, but they are regained in time.
The graphics is great, this reminds me of FF12. When it came out, everyone was surprised at the amount of detail and interactive objects. I feel the same with AC. Same thing applies to ES4, but that is another story.
The sound is realistic and soemwhat annoying. Annoying as in it is too real. The babble of city life floods you while your are walknig aronud the city looknig for view points and such.
The only bad things I found so far is: nothing. There were rumours and several complaints of crashes and freezes and I've yet to encounter one. I don't want to push my luck, but I hope I got one of the better copies.
Overall, it's a must have for all of you PS3 owners.
Keep Gaming,
-azzy