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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
New (4) Used (22) from £10.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  213 reviews
Sales Rank: 473
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 3307210244215
EAN: 3307210244215
ASIN: B000NG591G
Release Date: November 16, 2007
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 ABSOLUTLELY TERRIBLE!!!!!! October 8, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
this game is absolutely awful, how people give it good reviews is beyond me, as it is a waste of money.
 Great Game October 2, 2008
This Is A Great Game But After 1 Month Or So And When You Have Completed It There Is Asaloutley Nothing To Do On It Killing Guards Get Very Frustareting After Time But I Would Highly Recommend It Even With Its Faults It Still A Great Game :)
 Disappointed!! September 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I Bought my Xbox 360 for 2 games 1 was this and 1 is Far-cry 2 (which i hope will be awesome) getting back to the review,
You probaly heard this a lot of times but the visuals are stunning even on standard tv but the gameplay is zero its just to repetive you have to assasinate someone or pick-pockets etc: again an again so it gets a litle tyring and boring but lucky for me the CD stopped working for i dont know what reason so i got a full refund from amazon and i bought another game
Word of advice : If you really want the game you can rent it or if you want to keep it you can bye a used one for about 10 pounds.
 Good game, definitely worth buying but could be improved September 23, 2008
Im surprised by the amount of people giving this game poor reviews. Although this game does have its weaknesses, I feel that it is way better than the one/two stars awarded by some. If possible I would have given it 3.5stars but I gave it 4 because, after completing it earlier today, it definitely deserves more than 3stars. To give you a summary of the game in my opinion I'll start with the good points:
Firstly the setting for assassins creed is the best ive seen in years, and as many have said the entire game is absolutely stunning - particularly if you have a HDTV. The storyline supporting the gameplay is good, keeping you guessing and providing the inevitable twist at the end, while still leaving you waiting for the next installment. The story is deep enough to keep you engrossed and mixes historical accuracy with fiction and conspiracy - and at the end is just complex enough to have you digging further into it to see what it all meant! Finally the creators have got the fight-engine and movement physics spot on - the way Altair runs, jumps and fights all looks and feels very good, and the numerous ways you kill enemies with his cinematic 'counter-attack' moves just doesnt get old.
So onto the bad points - the glaring one that really takes the five-star rating away from this game is that it does get very repetitive towards the end. The 'viewpoint', 'information' and 'save citizen' missions just become a chore by the end and they could really have done with a bit more variation to the gameplay.
The other big annoyance in the game was that, as an assassin, there wasnt much scope for a really stealthy kill. Nearer the start of the game you can move around cities largely unnoticed and plan/execute a kill on one of the targets fairly stealthily, but towards the end gaurds frequently just chase and attack you on site, and theres literally no physical way to kill your main targets without the need to chase him all over the city and fight about 20 gaurds first! On one I kept reloading the game, and tried approaching from every concievable route with no success - as soon as you enter the vicinity a gaurd yells 'kill the infidel' and youre in the middle of a dozen soldiers with the target fleeing the area! They explain during the game that your noteriety is rising due to your previous successes, which is fair enough, but for the next game it needs to be made possible for people to kill a target and leave the area without ever having to engage bodygaurds, or without even being seen. It just doesnt seem very assassin-like to have to kill 20people before getting anywhere near your intended target.
Overall this game is an entertaining one - it looks stunning, plays well and has an engaging storyline. The developers do need to work on the repetitiveness and the way the game prevents the user from executing a really stealthy kill - which take the game from a 5star to a 3.5. This is not a game for those that get bored quickly or for those wishing to plan and perform truly masterful kills - for that try Hitman: Blood money (very good game).
Close to being a true great, but not quite there yet. I'll be keeping my copy to go back to every now and again and anxiously awaiting the next installment - if the improvements are there and the setting is just as rich, we could be seeing one of the best games ever in its category.
Was irritated, not entertained. August 13, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I heard so much about this game being brilliant that I purchased it on friday. It was back at the store on the monday being exchanged for something that I would actually enjoy.
I don't deny that the graphics are quite possibly the most stunning thing I've ever seen, but while they might help it along it's the gameplay that makes a game brilliant. This is far from brilliant.
The first mission will epp you interested, the second may do, but by the third you realise that the whole stealth issue can just be completley ignored and you can simply hack and slash your way through the missons and complete them in double quick time. I also found the controls finaky at best, especially the gentle move command, which (on the training mission I have to add) had me tearing my hair out as the computer dropped all its vases for the millionth time (you'll understand if you have it, or have played it)
If you really have to satisfy your curiosity, then I beg you to rent this game from blockbuster for the week and save your hard earned cash, because chances are if you have 7 free hours you will ahve completled it in that time. Overall, not the worst game ever, but the gameplay flaws and the sameness of the missions bored me to tears.
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