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Assassin's Creed (PS3) | 
| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 637
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: espionage-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard Edition
Age: 16 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: BLES00158
EAN: 3307210244222
ASIN: B000I1I9QS
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.
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It's easy to see why there was so much fighting amongst the console manufacturers to try and make this game a format exclusive. Where early launch titles may have disappointed this game not only looks like a next generation game but it plays like it too. Taken at face value the story casts you as an Arabic fighter in 1191, out to assassinate the nine Western leaders of the Third Crusade. There is more to the story than that though making it more than simple historical adventure it first seems.Since it's developed by many of the same team behind Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, it's no surprise to find the game using many of the same ideas. With the bold claim that you can climb on or over anything in the game world that sticks out more than two inches, this allows incredible freedom of movement, with a style of acrobatics heavily influenced by Parkour/free running. The game also innovates in terms of combat, with each of the face buttons controlling a different area of the body, rather like a marionette. As such one button controls the feet, one your open hand, one your weapon hand and the other your head. As an assassin stealth plays an important role in the game too, but here it's often a case of hiding in plain sight as you mill around inside large crowds of people. Everyone will react to you realistically though, so if you go around pushing people out of the way, or even killing them, the crowd will react and report you. With stunning graphics and genuinely innovative gameplay this is destined to be one of the most important releases of the year.
HARRISON DENT
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 Not for the fast-paced-blast-the-crap-out-of-everything ADD crowd... March 25, 2008
Blue Buddha (Bristol, UK)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
So I've just completed the fourth assassination and I am having soooooo much fun with this game. Enough has been written about the visuals, and indeed much has been written about the lack of variety. Well to me this game has more depth in it's little finger than many others have in the whole game. Repetitive? Halo? Doom? Every FPS ever written? In an era of endless sequels, FPS's and war games, where the games industry seems stuck in a rut with no creativity or original thought, I give full marks to Ubisoft for trying to do something new. The story, like the overall pace of the game, unfolds slowly. It seems well written and thought out, and the dialogue and voice acting is well done. The scope and attention to detail within the cities blows me away, and I can explore for hours.
There are valid criticisms - there is no point to collecting flags or killing Templars, other than for personal satisfaction and the sense of completeness. The combat can be awkward at times, and there could be more variety in the different investigation missions. However I don't feel these detract too much from what is a very compelling experience.
I guess I like games that don't try to rush me through in a few hours, and for £50 I appreciate it. I can't wait to see what AC2 can bring, with more time to focus on the gameplay instead of creating a truly world-class engine.
More, please March 16, 2008
Muggy (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Other reviews quite rightly point out the repetitiveness of the story line, the monks who appear whenever you need them, the gazillion flags you have to collect (yet for which you don't appear to get any extra skills if you complete a set), etc ... but I still loved this game. I keep coming back to it. Ubisoft has done an amazing job with the graphics, the fighting skills. I particularly appreciate the smaller things ... such as Altair's horse following him when he's on foot. Really well thought through.
Can't wait for its sequel!
Terrific March 13, 2008
Murat Ender Balcik (Turkey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game can make you gone mad. There is a map that seems to be endless. A new type of experience and gaming.
I strognly recommend this game. However, you may not give up playing this game for hours....
Great fun and amazing graphics February 26, 2008
T. J. P. Elliott
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alot of people complain about the simplicity of it but i llike this. I am not a 24/7 gamer and just play games for a bit after work when i dont really feel like going out. For this its perfect. The memory going back in time thing is unnessacary i feel, and its a bit stupid, but i can live with that. The graphics are spectacular, and regardless of what other people say, the fighting does have some skill with timing and is a perfect balence between needing a technique involved, and being too difficult to grasp. The missions are repetative, but i have been playing a while now and still loving it.
Amazing January 19, 2008
D. Fitzgerald
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
in this games you believe you are in the game
absolutely amazing
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