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Jerusalem, 1191 AD - The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You are an elite Assassin sent to stop the hostilities by suppressing the powers on both the Crusader and Saracen sides. But as you carry out your missions, a conspiracy begins to unfold. You find yourself tangled up in a conflict that threatens not only the Holy Land, but the entire world. Experience the power of a feared Assassin. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape the events of this pivotal moment in history. ESRB Rated M for Mature

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-11-13
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Features

• Be an Assassin! Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
• Realistic and responsive environments - Every action has its consequences. Crowds react to your moves, and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
• Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
• Dedicated historical accuracy, from the models of the in-game cities to the weaponry to the portrayal of actual political figures who died or disappeared in the year 1191.
• Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
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. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history. As an assassin you will master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history’s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.

Features:

• Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests
• Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through detailed and historically accurate environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds
• This game immerses you in the Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambiance, and the detail of a living world
• Find action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in sword fight duels

Customer Reviews

Assassin training complete
All I can say it “WOW”! If you want a game that has a great plot and lots of twists this is the one you should buy. This game brings something a little different to the gaming world. Most of the games that come out today are the same ol’ FPS killing aliens blah blah blah. The storyline in this game is outstanding as you are a modern day Joe Smoe with assassins in your bloodline. Through the use of a machine called the Animus, you live as your ancestor and are being manipulated to assassinate targets hundreds of years in the past. All of these assassinations tie into future events. I don’t want to give too much of the story away so you will just have to play it to see what I’m talking about. It is basically an open world with lots of tasks and missions that you must complete to unlock your memories of other events. Playing the game reminded me of Grand Thieft Auto at times with the openess of the towns where you are to do your tasks. The AI in this game is well above average and react quickly to the things that you do if you don’t hide or become “invisible”. The controls are easy to use, even when you learn more specialized moves later in the game and the graphics are outstanding. All of the cut-scenes are meaningful, timely, and are well done. The gameplay is not extremely difficult (at least it wasn’t for me). At times I felt like I was really challenged in combat but then again that is not the point of the game now is it. The pucker factor comes when you have to make assassinations in the middle of a crowd or try to pick pocket someone. One false move and you will be in a fight. It took me about 20 hours to complete the game. I only did the missions that I was tasked to do and all of the sub-tasks in each of the cities. I did not complete the flag tasks, ect. All in all this is a must buy and not a rental.

Beautiful, but overhyped and boring
Anyone in their right mind can see the Assassins Creed, is one of the most graphically flawless, XBOX360 titles to date. Complete with a beautiful sound score as well, but ultimately very overhyped and boring.
Climbing, jumping, sneaking and stabbing. It just gets SO dam repetitive and painfully boring after awhile. Xplay, actually said this first publicly, before anyone did and they were right.
Personally I have officially lost interest as of last night. I could no longer bear the idea of having to revisit the same cities at the same snails pace.
Each mission sends you back to areas already combed and with little to no change in gameplay. I had two more missions to go before some mysterious secret was to be revealed.
sadly, I just put down my controller and said “I don’t care anymore”. This sucks now. Many people love this game, however if you read their reviews most are based simply on appearance alone. I was hesitant to play The “Orange Box” title when it came out because I hate overhyped crap.
I was never so wrong with a game as with that one.
What a masterpeice! Feeling like I learned my lesson, I figured I could very well be wrong in assuming Assassins Creed, would be the same lesson taught. Nope. So far, if Xplay says it’s one way or the other, I’ll be inclined to pay more attention in the future.

Great Game … Terrible Ending
(SPOILER ALERT) My review is based upon what happens at the end of the game.

I really liked playing Assassin’s Creed. The action was great. I loved the fact that it required me to do things like climb towers to open up more of my option in a town.

That being said, the end was so bad that it completely overshadowed the rest of the game. I’m trapped in the lab and the Templars got everything they needed from me? That just plain sucks. It made me feel like I lost. I actually looked up a walk-through because I thought I screwed up and missed something. Nope that’s the way the game ends. I was hoping that I’d get to use all those assassin skills to escape from the lab, rescue my family, and defeat the Templars. Oh well.