Assassin's Creed is one of the most hyped games of the year. Fortunately it does live up to the hype for the most part. The game promised to be a free-roaming game that let you chose how and when to kill your targets. The game does do a decent job but for the most part you will have to fight your way through a horde of guards and then kill the person. For a game that talks a lot about how stealthy it tries to be you really wish that there was more to it than just battling your way through. The side missions that you undertake to gather information are good and fun but after awhile they become mindless and tedious, a great variety in these missions is something that the developers should put in the second. The game's combat system is easy to use and is fun to use there is a lot of enjoyment to be had just hack the living crap out of some poor soldier, and this is where the game truly shines. Likewise the climb system is streamlined, and effective but is not on auto-pilot but it gives a lot of extra playablility to a game that is chalk full of extras like trying to find all the flags and Templars. Unfortunatly the game is rather glitchy there will be time that the missions don't load and you will be stuck at the blue screen forcing you to restart your console also there are times when Altair becomes stuck and you can move but nothing happens, these are very frustrating and are a mark on a very solid game and for a game that was this hyped and this many resources where put to it this just shouldn't be happening. In conclusion, Assassin's Creed got the basic formula right the game 98% of the time is an enjoyable ride that you will like, but the lack of variety in the missions, the terrible ending, lack of replay because once you beat it there is a lot more that you can do diffrently, it claims to let you chose but a lot of the time there is only one way to go about it, and the technical glitches stop it from becoming a truly fantastic game, it is a solid first effort and is definelty a game that people should pick up and play and own but it could have been even better.
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