Learn more about Assassin's Creed. (Flash demo) SynopsisYour name is Altair, and you are a deadly assassin living in the year 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart, and you must take it upon yourself to become an agent of change and put a stop to the war. Your mastery of the skills, tactics and weapons of the world's most secret clan of warriors makes you the ideal person to defeat both sides of the conflict. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy and do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.Assassin's Creed thrusts you into a living, breathing world in which your decisions and actions all have consequences. Relive the epic spectacle of the Crusades as you explore the Holy Land in the 12th century, complete with lifelike graphics loaded with subtle details and nuances. The intense action features fluid and precise animations as you do battle using a variety of medieval weapons. With an incredible blend of technology, emotion, violence and chaos, Assassin's Creed gives you the chance to shape events during a pivotal moment in human history.
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This first game in the series has some of the most inovative gameplay I've seen in a while, Ubisoft did a great job bringing all this ancient cities to life. This is a stealth game, most of the time you will be trying to keep your self under the radar, but u can go crazy and reveal your self at any given time. You're an assassin that made a mistake and is being lectured and trained all over again, so they make you do all these assassinations to prove you're worthy of the Creed of Assassins. Before you get the name of your target you will have to do some investigation missions to find out why you're killing him or what happens around him. These missions are basicly easy just follow the icons on the map and do the specific action. You don't have to follow the rules but it sure makes the game all challenging and fun to play a stealthy assassin. The battle system is easy to use and it works smothly u have your regular attacks and your stealth, counter and combo, wich you perform br presing the right or left trigger then the corresponding weapon button. You have 3 weapons you have a sword,hidden knife and a dagger, when using the dagger you also have access to throwing knifes for those gurds on the oposite rooftops you may not be able to get fast enough. On the graphics side it looks gorgeous alld the detail they gave to the main character and the city looks breath taking, some of the people on the cities dont looks as sharp as the main character but that can be forgiven since it the console is running this whole city without having to wait for loading screen when you run from one end to the other. If you like stealth games you will love Assassin's Creed if you don't, it's still a great game and you should give it a try, i had alot of fun playing through the whole game. I would give it a 9/10 just because of the repetitive missions but besides that it all comes together to from a superb game.
What's great about it: Huge gorgeous worl full of life.