How I approach Assassins Creed for the very first time?

Hi there,

I never played an Assassins creed before. But I feel tempted and I got Brotherhood.

What's the deal? Opening map zones conquesting towers, and made all those missions "follow this guy", "get into the crow without being detected and kill with a knife that other guy". its all about that?

I see you can rebuild with money Rome, and there are the brotherhood missions. But, How I get fun with it? Plus, a simple question, can I simple kill guards and go away?

I really want to enjoy this game, since it's like being a Ninja in a hisitorically constructed Rome. Wich is one of my favourite cities

thank you in advance!

You definitely want to approach it with a level of steadfastness, and cautiousness. That's the best way to have fun with it.

@jord: Here is a very important thing to remember. You played one, you played them all, minor features notwithstanding

Just play Black Flag. Be a pirate. And sometimes an assassin. But mostly a pirate.

Brotherhood is a good game, but it really is not pure AC game, so its rather bad starting point.

Best place to start would be AC2, as it is the best and purest AC, according to pretty much every gamer I know. And I quite agree, having completed AC2 several times.

AC3 is also easy way to get into the games. Or get AC Unity if you want a really easy portal into AC universe.

AC4 is pirate adventure and not true AC game.

Best approach is not buying the game. If it's free, don't install it.

If you want to be a ninja, the AC games are not for you. Admittedly I found that rather disappointing myself after the first few games, because my experience with most "assassin/hitman/etc" games up to that point had been more stealth and sneaking based.

Assassin's Creed, while having stealth, is more about stalking, pouncing, then fending off and running away, as opposed to staying hidden and getting away with murder.

So if the above does not sound good, well, sorry bud...AC is not for you.

Now, with all that said, I really enjoy pretty much all of the AC games because of their setting. It's a lot of fun to run, walk, stalk, leap, parkour, and explore these historic locations that are not only representing somewhat accurately, but with a bit of creative liberty as well. Even more so, the AC series has a colorful cast of characters, and with some exceptions the protagonists and their supporting characters are all really enjoyable characters to play as and with.

While I will always prefer Splinter Cell and Hitman to Assassin's Creed (well, at least the older titles...), I still really enjoy the AC titles enough to look forward to each installment.

It's an unpopular opinion but one I wholeheartedly agree with; Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is not a great representation of Assassin's Creed. People get a boner for pirates, and it's a fun game, but it just is not a really good AC game. Hell, does the guy even get accepted into the Assassin Club? I enjoyed AC4 a lot, but there are better AC games.

AC2 is arguably the "best" but a bit dated now; Unity was great and a bit different from the standard formula, and France was awesome!; and I really liked the dual-hero dynamic of Syndicate tbh, and found both very likable (as well as Victorian London)

@mrbojangles25: I really trying....argh! I love the concept of assassins creed sooo much...like you said, the setting and its historical accuracy. Messing around with great figures.

I lovr the tombs, prince of percia parkour, killing people as a badass assassin instead of shoothing like in most of the todays games.

But then...all seems short side missions. Its not so much about the repetitiveness but that all those missions never really full fill me.

Also...the armor/weapons upgrades seems pointess due the poor AI.

I want to enjoy it!!!! But i can't see the point more than you say...jumping in one of my beloved cities, rome.

How I should approach brotherhood then?

Man, i felt like the series was overrated. the combat is enjoyable, though. skip to the ones that offer you single button counters in combat. brotherhood combat mechanic is trash but everything else was enjoyable. you should handle the game as you would any other open world game. personally skip the main game and tackle every side quest first, which i naturally do. downside in some games is you enter the main game op..lol

problem with Brotherhood is that it's a mess. We always hear about all the stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor, things devs wanted to do but didn't have the time or money. Basically Brotherhood is a hodgepodge of all the things they couldn't fit into AC2, crammed together in no particular order. The story itself is a reset of the AC2 story just so the devs can say the game actually has one - if you read any fantasy books, you're used to this sort of thing, where the author just half-asses a storyline that does nothing for the larger story but is really just about extending the series and thus his/her profit by one book. Just play AC2 and ignore the Ezio spinoffs.

controlled like shit though

@Macutchi said:

@mrbojangles25 said:

Unity was great and a bit different from the standard formula, and France was awesome!;

controlled like shit though

I wouldn't know, I use mouse and keyboard

But if I am being totally honest, I've always had a problem with how the AC games have handled. I mean they're not terrible, they've just always felt clunky to me.

@mrbojangles25: haha. yeah me too. replayed black flag a few months ago and was amazed at just how many actions in the game were tied to a single button. it made precise movement very tricky. i think i'd played dishonored 2 just before it and the contrast in how much control the games gave you over the protag was like night and day

@mrbojangles25:

Its really amazing they are the guys who made the smoothy prince of persia.

The problems is the whole game seems like doing side quests. Too bad...the concept had so much potential...

Just take a Leap of Faith on Assassins Creed 2.