So what's the overall opinion on Assassin's Creed? (poll)

What did you guys think of it then?

Personally i loved it. sure it got repetitive at times, there were some bugs, AI flaws but the free-running, assasination, atmosphere and story i thought was amazing. It just brings me to why i loved the sands of time so much. The atmosphere in both games were spot on. Voice acting was top notch and it was just plain fun (im used to repetitiveness, tbh fps is pretty repetitive too, just keep shooting guys)

So how about you guys then?

I thought it was awesome. Can't wait for the sequel.jethrovegas

yeah same, the story really sucked me in.

It had the potential to be one of the best games ever...but it is HEAVILY FLAWED...but I still love it. Dont know about 9.0 though.

agree or disagree with gs review?Arjdagr8

Disagree.

[QUOTE="Arjdagr8"]agree or disagree with gs review?Kahuna_1

Disagree.

how come?

Aspects of the game are fantastic, but other aspects are deeply flawed.

The freerunning is great. The cities are very cool, and they really are packed with people. The story is interesting, even if the ending answers nothing.

But why are assassination missions bookended by long, unskippable, and pretentious cutscenes? Why can you stab a guard, and avoid suspicion by blending? Why are you clearly an assassin when you run fast? Why are there only four (or five) investigation missions in the game, copy-pasted across the cities? Why does the ending dispense with the open-world freerunning aspect of the game, and turn it into a combat slog? Why don't beggars go bother other people?

There are a ton of small things like that which keep Assassin's Creed from being as excellent as it could be.

I agree, but I found that I was an unstoppable one man army force to be reckoned with during the last 2 hours of the game thanks to the massive health bars. IMO opinion, they should have made comfrontation with the guards less favourable in terms of options, because although some guards and bosses have access to grab breaks, grabs, block breakers, counters and other advanced moves, I was actually able to fight people with just a retractable blade (without block features obviously, and only doing counters or dodges if enemy numbers risen). Also note that when your sword hits theirs with a lot of force (makes a clang noise, and bounces off) that means they have lost health (like Oblivions block) and if you keep hitting them they will basically die.

It would be nice if the game made it easier to assassinate targets, instead of fight everyone, rather than allow you to more easily eliminate everything that breathes.

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[QUOTE="Arjdagr8"]agree or disagree with gs review?Arjdagr8

Disagree.

how come?

Broken simplistic combat, repetative tasks to acquire info,zero crowd interaction, dying framerate, freezing issues...I would go into depth, but it would be too long.

I have real mixed feelings on this game. Up until the 8th assassination, it was one of my favorite games of the year. For some reason, around the 9th, the game's flaws began to rear their ugly head. The combat in that assassination was frustrating, pointless, and not enjoyable. Then, the next (and last) 2 hours of the game were the exact same thing, no exaggeration, 20 times in a row. It left a bad taste in my mouth. But I will still remember the fun I had scaling the tallest building in Jarusalem, slicing throats, and throwing guards off rooftops along the way. And chasing one of my targets across the docks, leaping from boat to boat until I finally caught up to him, which were amongst my favorite moments in recent gaming.

7.0 overall.

I think my head almost exploded at the beginning because it just took so long for the game to get started, but other than that, it's one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

Aspects of the game are fantastic, but other aspects are deeply flawed.

The freerunning is great. The cities are very cool, and they really are packed with people. The story is interesting, even if the ending answers nothing.

But why are assassination missions bookended by long, unskippable, and pretentious cutscenes? Why can you stab a guard, and avoid suspicion by blending? Why are you clearly an assassin when you run fast? Why are there only four (or five) investigation missions in the game, copy-pasted across the cities? Why does the ending dispense with the open-world freerunning aspect of the game, and turn it into a combat slog? Why don't beggars go bother other people?

There are a ton of small things like that which keep Assassin's Creed from being as excellent as it could be.

sonicmj1

I think the unskippable cutscenes was an oversite.

You can stab a gaurd and get away with blend cause it's a hidden (spring loaded?) blade. I guess the idea is that when used correctly it delivers a fatal blow unnoticeably to those around you.

Ever heard the old expression "Only children and thieves run." Goin with the time and the culture this is set in. Running would realistically bring unwanted attention to you quickly. Especially with the guards on edge.

As for the copy and pasted missions. That is weak. Ubisoft probably spent most of the time trying to make the environment, smooth movement across obstacles, and different philosophies of the assination targets meld together. Wether that is reason enough to forgive the reptitiveness is a different topic IMO.

I can't answer your ending question.

I'll add my own gripe with the game. Aside from the reptitiveness people have said before. I loved the game, but it lost something when I realized I could just block and counter my way out of any alert. I didn't feel the need to run and hide and it took me out of the game. It's a good thing I didn't figure that out till after I cleared through through. I could stand at the guy I'm to report to and kill off any pursuers.

It's a trilogy. Hopefully they fix the problems. If they don't. I'll still rent to see the rest of the story.

"It was good, but weighed down by noticeable flaws."

Exactly how I thought of the game.

I love it, I'm on the last "level".

I can understand why people were disappointed with it though. A common complaint is the repetitiveness, but I don't mind that, because I never get tired of sneaking up behind a guy and dropping the hidden blade on him or sniping archers with throwing knives.

And I never get tired of the free-running either, although it might have been better if they didn't make climbing everything automatic. If there was some sort of feature that they could have put in to make it difficult to climb things that would have been cool, because then you would feel like you accomplished something when you make it to the top of a view point. However, the automatic climbing is kind of nice, because it helps keep the pacing of the game consistent.

A lack of patience is whats going to hurt you if you attempt to play this game. If you can't wait for a guard to move or for a harasser to leave you alone, you are going to get frustrated and just start killing all the guards, at which point you are going to complain about the combat. The game is 10x better if you actually play like an assassin and stealth kill all the bosses.

Personally, I wish the game became a lot harder if you were noticed and got into a fight. When you are discovered, dealing with the guards is more of an annoyance than anything. You either have to fight wave after wave of them or just keep running away until you can hide. I think its pretty stupid that the guards can outrun you, but they completely suck at fighting. It would have been better if it was actually difficult to fight 10-20 guys at a time (as it realistically is) instead of being very easy and simplistic. It would discourage the player from getting noticed and just fighting their way through the game. I also think you should get some sort of bonus for stealth killing the bosses as an incentive to do so.

The glitches are nothing major. The game looks great, even in standard definition. Didn't really notice the music. The sound effects are pretty good.

So yeah, its a good game that could have used a major boost in difficulty (like Bioshock) and been a little more fleshed out in terms of stuff to do.

I'm trying to be easier on AC and try to appreciate it for what it was, the platforming was great and it looked really good and I did at least like it enough to see it through to the end and... and...

Oh man, who am I kidding it had 3 missions if you don't count climbing towers and the boss assassinations AND ONE OF THE THREE WAS SITTING ON A BENCH!

You followed the compass and sat on a bench. A bench of all things.

Now that devs know Gamespot will hand out action GOTY for bench sitting what other revolutions are we about to see in the best action games of the year?

Napping? Leaning against a wall? Resting in the shade? lounging in a relaxing tub? the skys the limit now folks.

oh yah, what the hell is up with the horses, if i go more than 1 mph all the guards get suspicious.....you halve to "blend" and go at 0.5mph to be "normal"...wth

pros:

Free running

Platforming

cool looking environments

exploring

cons:

Horrible combat

bad AI

mission repetitiveness

Lepers

Beggers

Why don't beggars go bother other people?

sonicmj1

Exactly! Or at last have them leave you alone faster.

oh yah, what the hell is up with the horses, if i go more than 1 mph all the guards get suspicious.....you halve to "blend" and go at 0.5mph to be "normal"...wth

kcm_117

That reminds me of how you have to run from the top of the mountian every time.

I thought it was a wonderfully flawed game.Ibacai

This is a quite good description.

I love AC with unbridled passion. I can look past all it's faults (and there are many) and simply get lost in Altaïr's world for hours on end. Not even seaching for objectives or flags, just running around. As an experience, few games last year could compare in my eyes.

Still, it's a very flawed game, and not everyone will be able to get past that: It's not that these people are shortsighted at all. I'm inclined to believe they're completely right in lambasting the problems the game has... it's just that for me, what wheat was there was enough to disregard all the chaff.

7.5/10

Who ever thought of the last 40 min of AC can die from a stampede of German Shepard's.

I love it, I'm on the last "level".

I can understand why people were disappointed with it though. A common complaint is the repetitiveness, but I don't mind that, because I never get tired of sneaking up behind a guy and dropping the hidden blade on him or sniping archers with throwing knives.

And I never get tired of the free-running either, although it might have been better if they didn't make climbing everything automatic. If there was some sort of feature that they could have put in to make it difficult to climb things that would have been cool, because then you would feel like you accomplished something when you make it to the top of a view point. However, the automatic climbing is kind of nice, because it helps keep the pacing of the game consistent.

A lack of patience is whats going to hurt you if you attempt to play this game. If you can't wait for a guard to move or for a harasser to leave you alone, you are going to get frustrated and just start killing all the guards, at which point you are going to complain about the combat. The game is 10x better if you actually play like an assassin and stealth kill all the bosses.

Personally, I wish the game became a lot harder if you were noticed and got into a fight. When you are discovered, dealing with the guards is more of an annoyance than anything. You either have to fight wave after wave of them or just keep running away until you can hide. I think its pretty stupid that the guards can outrun you, but they completely suck at fighting. It would have been better if it was actually difficult to fight 10-20 guys at a time (as it realistically is) instead of being very easy and simplistic. It would discourage the player from getting noticed and just fighting their way through the game. I also think you should get some sort of bonus for stealth killing the bosses as an incentive to do so.

The glitches are nothing major. The game looks great, even in standard definition. Didn't really notice the music. The sound effects are pretty good.

So yeah, its a good game that could have used a major boost in difficulty (like Bioshock) and been a little more fleshed out in terms of stuff to do.

Weapons_Free

You may love the game now, and think you're on the "last level". That's what happened to me. Wait until you see how poorly the last 2 hours of the game was handled. Almost ruined the experience for me.

agree or disagree with gs review?Arjdagr8

"ASSASSIN!....GET THE ASSASSSIN!....INFIDEL DIE!...YOU CANNOT RUN FOREVER...GET THE INFIDEL....WHAT ARE YOU DOING...WHAT IS HE DOING...WHY IS HE DOING THAT...I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE DO THAT BEFORE...NOW I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING...THE FIRES OF WAR CONSUME THE LAND AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES ARE LOST IN ITS FLAMES..THE ENGLISH KING AND HIS INFIDEL ARMY, THEY SAY IT IS A CRUSADE..A CRUSADE FOR WHAT? IGNORANCE? VIOLENCE?...

Well...talk about repetitive crowd interaction that fails to exist......."PLEASE SIR JUST ONE COIN..OH NO SIR JUST ONE COIN SIR PLEASE..MY FAMILY IS SICK AND DYING....JUST ONE COIN....PLEASE I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY.."

Then you got the retards...."UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

For my user review I slapped it with a 6.5/10.

"ASSASSIN!....GET THE ASSASSSIN!....INFIDEL DIE!...YOU CANNOT RUN FOREVER...GET THE INFIDEL....WHAT ARE YOU DOING...WHAT IS HE DOING...WHY IS HE DOING THAT...I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE DO THAT BEFORE...NOW I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING...THE FIRES OF WAR CONSUME THE LAND AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES ARE LOST IN ITS FLAMES..THE ENGLISH KING AND HIS INFIDEL ARMY, THEY SAY IT IS A CRUSADE..A CRUSADE FOR WHAT? IGNORANCE? VIOLENCE?...

Well...talk about repetitive crowd interaction that fails to exist......."PLEASE SIR JUST ONE COIN..OH NO SIR JUST ONE COIN SIR PLEASE..MY FAMILY IS SICK AND DYING....JUST ONE COIN....PLEASE I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY.."

Then you got the retards...."UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Kahuna_1

" WHO DID THIS!!" :roll: