If practice makes perfect, most of us will be experts after completing AC's extremely repetitive game.
Assassin's Creed (AC) is a good game that includes a marvelous and inventive story with a great control scheme. In AC, it is the user's job to access the environment around them and make a decison of whether to use "high profile" or "low profile" moves. High/Low profile moves can be classified respectively as either moves that will bring attention to you from the public and guards, or as moves that will help you blend into your environment, avoiding any additonal attention. The control is smooth, responsive and innovative. And the sword play never gets old. Whether you are surrounded by 5 or 25 enemies, you never feel like there is a fight that you cannot win. The animations of the assassinations and fight scenes are varied and keep you wanting to kill more.
B/c of how great the graphics, control scheme, story, fighting engine, and innovativeness of the game are, it just makes the fact that the side missions and gathering information on your target being very repetive a huge disappointment. Climbing the look out points and saving the citizens is fun... for the first 10 - 20 times you experience theseas pects of the game. But they get old, and really quick.
However, being that that is my only complaint of the game, I find it unfair to penalize the overall score/rating of the game, but I definitely would NOT recommend paying full price for this game.
Happy Gaming,