Assassin's Creed for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

the game is repeditive, that is the only reason it got a 9 and not a 10. But the worlds, tha AI and what you can grab/climb is out of this world, the game will remind you of prince of persia but only for a few seconds, because once your on your horse riding to the city you will find out how much more indepent you are as Altair. the controls are pretty spot on, little tricky to learn but work great. the frame rate rarely, and mean almost never jumps, which means you can have hundreds of people on screen at once and never have to worry about missing a jump off a roof or into a hay stack, the story is a little weird, nothing like you would think just from screens, but it seems to work. hopeing for a sequel with more and more powers or at least some kind of power.

This game is great. As soon as I got it from Gamefly i popped it into my ps3 and i couldn't stop playing it. I loved how the creators made the game so you feel like your apart of the historic cities. The character designs are perfect and the story line is awesome. I ended up buying the game after i rented it. I suggest this game to RPG gamers and to anyone who like a little history in their games.

Now i'm writing this after I played every other assassin's creed game exept ac 3. So far ac 2 is the best but not the best at evrything. This is much more intresting story and it's harder as well. That said it gets very repetitive go to town, get information, get permision to kill guy, kill guy. All the information stuff is boring except for mabye picking pockets. The actual assassination is fun wether stealth or running in with a sword. Oh by the way don't do extra side missions it's useless you get no more information because you don't ever get any information from them. It is fun all in all but just a reall good rent.

The Creed is a gem, especially on the PS3. Having Hi Def. makes the game play and graphics great! I admit the first few days were pretty confusing, but after the plot started getting deeper and the more goodies I unlocked, I fell in love!! Those looking to play it, your in for a treat!

my reason for playing this game was to find out more about the series.. that being said without trophies there is little icentives to collect all the collectibles or fully sync your memories,,
now the disc itslef seemed to randomly stop working towards the end.
the game is worth a rent but i wouldnt recomend a buy unless your a die hard fan of the series. the game does have a story yet desmound is hardly answered.

This game is amazing...a genre buster to be exact.....the game combines go anywhere, do anything gameplay where you can explore entire cities and do the main story or do well....repititive but still fun side missions and has some of the most addictive combat out of any game I've ever played...and Altair is an amazingly created protagonist who is extremely likeable....but the story can be confusing and not really having a satisifying ending but it's enough to keep you in suspfense (if your a first time player and you haven't played any other game in the series like me.) for Assassin's Creed II

Gameplay graphics story control as Altair you can travel to any city durin the crusades but you can't do curtain things

Best Game Ever!!!!

non combat game play: loved it, being able to jump on every surface sneak up on people and kill them so fun!

combat game play: a new step into combat with both video and non-video combat

A.I.: great, kind of annoying because its hard to hide but it makes it ever more real

videos: never seen anything like it you can actually move in the cut scenes!

My reason for giving it a score of a 7 is simple. While the game looks great and controls really good , the game itself gets repetitive. Here is the breakdown
You go to a city access all view points so you know where to go , save some citizens, Speak to informers and the leader of the bureau then kill your target. I have yet to see anything else different in the game. Its a cool game but not nothing extraordinary. Its a good rental not worthy of a purchase. I hope my review helps. I like to keep my reviews simple and to the point. No need for all the details on the story yada yada yada.

Assasins creed i was shaky on i read mixed reviews some good some bad but when i played it i loved it. playing as an assaisan is a genre in itself it's very unique gameplay you can assasinate,hide,and do much more unlike some action adventure games where you just barge in you take subtle aprroaches after all it is your mind your playing in. you will have options how you want to fight be stealthy,or just go out sword swinging with that there so many more things you can do in assasins creed you'll just have to follow that creed.

When I first begun the game I didn't understand the score IGN had stamped the title. It became more obvious as time went on. I stay down and played the game out right for 3 days taking in everything I could until the very end. The journey was not at all as fun as I was hoping. It had its moments, and the storyline was interesting to say the least, but the game was disappointing. It felt like a movie to game title, and then I realized that the progression of the game played out too similar to the Spiderman franchise. It soon became very repetitive and the VA of each citizen became painfully annoying, repeating the same lines to the point where I just muted the game. Moreover, the AI was terrible, they attack you one at a time, and can sometimes be completely oblivious to a murder in their exact line of sight. You'll see for yourself. If that wasn't enough the game is guaranteed to freeze on you before completion. You will find infinite load times, and plenty of character turn a-rounds in frozen environments. This game is heavy in its flaws but fantastic in execution. Learning the interface was the most fun I had with the game, but as time went on, I just wanted it all to end. The game has those next-gen visuals, but not the next-gen game play I'd been waiting for... Lastly, to sum this up, I enjoyed the small innovations that the game had to offer (which wasn't much), but after all these Jade Raymond interviews, 3 years of development, and all the commercial hype... and this was the final product? I hope there's more to this than I'm seeing and they can clean up the issues they had with this title and give us the experience promised for the next one. I was really looking forward to this, it was really a fantastic concept, but what a let down. I give it at 7.4/10.

first off, i completely agree with what the user thorvault had to say... I found myself climbimg more than anything, the beginning was extremely confusing,pickpoketing is annoying. My problam with this is i cant play this for any longer than 30 minutes because it gets repetative. There are positives about this game tho. Amazing graphics, cool music, killing in this game is very entertaining, and most of all its not just a reguler shooter like most games... I highly suggest you renting this before you buy it.

Great game if you enjoy walking around and doing nothing. Graphics are great, with a good concept just gets really old really fast. I could only play it for a couple hours before I just gave up. Rent it before buying.

This is a perfect sandbox game, the AI is very
realistic if you turn your back to an enemy expect to get stabbed, jump from rooftop to rooftop never gets old nor does the leap of faith
to the ground, the graphics are beyond beautiful and the sound is crystal clear and stunning. the developers did an amazing job on character control, the low profile movement and high profile movement switch makes it very easy to
perform exactly what you want to do. other developers need to take note. this game is well worth playing over and over

Total score 10
graphics 10
Storytelling 10
sound 10
control 10
gameplay 9.5
Fun factor 9.0

First off, I will start with the pro's. Great graphics, good music, good story (at first), and amazing sandbox free roaming. Now the con's. Glitchy... very very glitchy. easily became repetitive, and towards the end of the game you no longer needed to be sneaky, just ended in a big sword fight for the last 3 or 4 assassinations. The ending was BS!!!! I have never seen such a lame ending in god knows how long. You will find yourself climbing more then actually killing, Game should be called climber's creed.

In no way is this a bad game, if it was I would have scored it less, It just doesn't live up to all the hype. They should have delayed it to work out the glitches, instead of rushing it out.

It's an awesome game the look at, the graphics and sharp and the visuals are great. The storyline has a smooth twist that you may not think about which makes this game a must play. The combat could be a little better but the fact of the free climbing and roaming feature they have makes up for it. You can climb up on anything that appears to have a ledge and jump freely to another object with ease. You are going to need both on certain missions to escape the enemy being that they are just a quick as you are. When you earn counter kills is makes the game especially useful in 10 on 1 situations although only one enemy attacks at a time. The stealth is the best approach but it's always fun to test your might. Great game to have. Something refreshing outside the sequels.

I liked the entire game until I reached the very end because this game had the worst ending of any game that I can ever remeber playing. It was like the ending to the second Matrix it just ends at a very crucial point in the game and I hate that.

Really good game thats a bit repetative, but the overall swagger and just the plain fun of how you slice and dice your enemies makes you jump into the repetative gameplay head first. Overall the game looks great and makes up for the gameplay in plot and just plain overall fun. WHO doesnt like walking up behind somebody, shanking them in the back, and getting away with it untouched. Scaling around cities and exploring everything makes this game a total and absolute must!

I was pretty excited about this game until I played it. The missions are very repetitive, always having to climb up buildings and pickpocket people becomes very annoying. The game control isn't that great and my PS3 froze about 5 or 6 times in the 3 or 4 days I played it. The game has a good story line and the next game in the series has real potential. Dont buy this game, just rent it.

I don't know about halo 3 but from the games that i have played this is by far the best... EVER!!!!!!!!!!

But ever time i play it is VERY hard if you accidentally fall off a tall building, still if you are a parent and your kid wants this game, and they are responsible and aren't easily influenced by video games, GET IT!!!

I hope this is Useful.

I read the reviews from the "big companies" and some things they are right about, others, couldn't be further from the truth.

Yeah, you learn a fact that some say could wait until later in the game, I say, it is important. Why? Because how everything is, the visuals and whatnot. If you do not know, you will see.

The story is pretty good. Some parts are long winded, but you know what... when the characters talk and their mouths move with the words and not just open up and down like a puppet, that is fine.

There aren't really cut scenes per se in the game. Even when there is a cut scene rolling, you can move about or change to a different camera angle.

The visuals are absolutely stunning. You can see way out into the distance and the people moving about. This is not a game for quick action junkies. If you run around the city and jump on top of roofs, the citizens DO notice and they talk about it. The guards get interested and soon you are the center of attention.

The animation of the fights, climbing, running, falling, riding the horse (although combat on horseback is lacking) all is superbly done.

The acrobatics of the game are not using any crazy button combos but allows you to do things without really trying. This is both good and bad.

Good because while running from a fight, or chasing someone or even trying to take a short cut, you don't have to worry about hitting certain buttons and moving and your surroundings and lets you have a more enjoyable experience.

Bad is due to the fact you are simply in essence, running back, kiting, losing agro and then move back into combat range. Or just mindlessly running forward and watching yourself doing the hopping around.

Scaling buildings is breathtaking, but unforgiving if a mistake is made, and you will make mistakes. Fall too high and you die.

I really really do like how they put a twist on being an assassin here.
Never kill and innocent
Never let them know who you are.

I was really into this game when I first got it, but I have to agree with a lot of other people out there who have commented on the repetition in this game. That's what made me lose interest. Once i got GTA4, I lost all interest in assassins creed and couldn't get back into it. Wish I could give it higher then a 7, but there's just not enough variety between missions.

~numasia

The best looking game of the year just arrived and it's called Assassin's Creed. This historical epic is set in the Middle East during the Middle Ages, but there's nothing middling about the way it looks and plays.

Assassin's Creed is a heady cocktail of stuff you've seen in other games. Take one part Grand Theft Auto's open city, one part Crackdown's crazy acrobatic antics, and one part Hitman's painstakingly engineered assassination missions. Now top it off with a spicy historical Middle Eastern setting and serve it up in some of the most jaw-droppingly amazing graphics you've ever seen. The result is another masterpiece from Ubisoft Montreal.

You begin the game as a haughty member of a secret society of assassins. After a fall from grace, you have to work your way back up the ranks of your sect by taking out nine targets for your master. These targets are spread among three cities, which are separated by a "kingdom" area you can cross on horseback. Once you reach a city, you have to explore it in order to gather information about your target.

You'll engage in side activities like picking pockets to swhich maps, running courses in a set amount of time, bullying public speakers when they retire down dark alleys, or doing a little freelance assassinating. All the while, you're trying to keep a low profile in the context of Assassin's Creed's system of socially acceptable actions vs. socially unacceptable actions. If you don't behave yourself, the city guards will be on you faster than a SWAT team from San Andreas.

These cities have to be seen to be believed. There are open marketplaces, courtyards, mosques, castles, villas, barracks, harbors, and more. And it's all actually in the game. If you can see it, you can reach it. It's amazing that Ubisoft was able to combine so much photorealistic details and elaborate architecture with such a ridiculously long viewing range.

This is a really good game. Graphics are sweet. The controls are easy. The only thing that keeps this from being great is the repetitiveness of the missions. The game would have benefited from just talking place in the past and leaving out the storyline in the future. A plus is the game length. 15 -20 hours make it worth the price.