Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition

This game is so life-like in its historical representation that it will emerse yourself in 1191 Crusades of the Holy Land. Here you follow the memories of Altair, the head Assassin as he conducts himself on nine missions (Not to mention a hundred side missions that you can enter freely of your own will). I can see this game engine use in other simulations, like Shinobe of Japan, or even a Bourne Supremacy game. The details are amazing, masses of people interact and the slightest mishap will draw you into an incounter. Fight or flee. Its your choice. One aspect of fascination is the computer's prediction on weather you will make a leap from one rooftop or not. Precision was taken to allow a sense of fear as the computer predicts based on your angle and speed. This changes with just a mili-second of decision. It is very real aspect to the game. Even the horses move with realism... A must have.

When I first saw the trailer for this game, it looked like it had potential. But then I started to see all the negative reviews when it came out on PS3 and 360. How it's repetitive and there's not much actual assassinations and you waste time doing other things. So it was pushed from my mind.

But I have to say, this game is really fun. I didn't know this type of game was possible on the PC. The last time I remember having this type of intuitive control and ability to jump and move around anywhere was Mario 64. And this game takes that fluid character control and ups the ante by 1000x and increases the graphics, adds hundreds of people and lets you kill anyone. I don't know what to say, it's just extremely fun to just run around, walk around, climb, jump across roof, fight random civilians and the guards. It's just perfect. Well, closer to perfect than any game I've played yet.

Anyways I had some concerns with people saying you'll need a gamepad for this. I have a PS3 for Blu Ray, not games, but a friend brings over AC sometimes and personally I prefer the keyboard/mouse combo. With a controller you just feel so constricted and you never forget that you're the one guiding the character on screen. With keyboard/mouse it's easier to get past that and move as if you're in the game. But I understand it's preference and if you're a console person you might feel differently.

I don't know of all the improvements made from the console versions but I noticed at least 4 new side-quests. There's one where you stealth kill archers and guards for your fellow assassins, one where you have to race to another informer within a certain amount of time, one where you "escort vip", and one where you need to throw someone into merchant stores. Adds a bit of variety while you stack up enough investigations for the main kill.

I love the fighting in this game. I thought it was a little dull but once you get Counter, oh my god. Insanely fun and engaging combat sequences. I like that Ubisoft put in a lot of variety to what kinds of moves the Counter skill can pull off. It's just satisfying to watch the incredibly cool maneuvers this guy pulls off against 20+ enemies closing in on him as he spins and ducks and slices. One of my favorite has to be the one where he gets down and stabs a foot then charges up and impales a blade into the skull. Such a pretty game.

Graphics are incredible but yeah the specs are pretty high. I'm running it at max settings with 2x anistropic, 4x anti-aliasing, at 1920x1080 resolution with great fps on a 3.2GHz C2D, 2GB DDR2 800, 8800GT 512, system.

I don't usually buy single player games because of the lack of replayability. So unless it's a great experience, I'll stick with my mutliplayer. Bioshock was a huge letdown for me, but AC was a pleasant surprise. Bioshock had an interesting story but AC has the FUN gameplay. Games I usually go for are CoD4, TF2, etc. All PC of course. Consoles are for kids or for street fighter or rock band sorts of games. Assassin's Creed on PS3 was kind of lame but the PC experience is well worth it if you've got a system to run it.

It's not a perfect game. There isn't an option to save so you'll have to sit through long speeches again if you die. There are some little things I might nitpick about. But from the games available on the market, it's definitely one of the best. I'm excited about other games with this engine because the movement and combat are just so damn fun.

The only keys I customized were the weapons(which is pretty much preference) and I made "Q" eaglevision and "E" target. Works great.

I know it's not a game I'll play again and again like CoD4 but it's a 4.5 for a single player. Downfall is the repetitiveness but the gameplay engine is just spectacular.

Minimum Requirements:

Operating System: Windows® XP (with Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista®

Processor: Dual core 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 3800+

RAM: 1 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista

Video Card: 256 MB DirectX® 10.0-compliant video card or DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)

Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0-compliant sound card

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 libraries (included on disc)

DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive

Hard Drive Space: 8 GB

Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller




Ifyou have a computer good enough to run Assassins Creed then I just have three words for you......



"GET THIS GAME"

There might a pretty good game hidden under a whole mountain of CRAP here. A historic medieval killing machine raising H E double hockey sticks in the holy land. Sounds great right? It would be without the fact that it's wrapped in this stupid "you're in the present remembering an ancestor doing all this stuff" sci-fi crapola joke of a premise. I could forget it if didn't rub your nose in it every two seconds. I don't want computerized hi-tech sci-fi imagery invading what should have been a great medieval fantasy/adventure. I think they were trying to be clever and provide "immersion" but it's just stupid. To load in, you get to relive that horribly endless tutorial/cutscene that started the game and to quit you can't right away. You have to "come back to the present", exit that stupid case you're supposedly in, pause the game, quit again, reload your profile, pause the game, then quit to windows, finally. Oh yea, it's an awkward console port to boot and the controls blow. Not worth the bargain bin price. Avoid this like the plague.

Bought this game thinking that it might be fun. After several attempts at the controls, I finally got the hang of it. Then it happened. Anti Christian, anti bible, pro Muslim messages began to be promoted throughout the game. I kept playing it, thinking that things would get better but it only got worse. There are lots of games out there that are more fun without a message that I would recommend, but not this one. BEWARE of this game for the younger folks whose minds could be corrupted with lies in the name of fun. As a result, I didn't even re-sell it. Simply put it in my new shredder where it belonged in the first place.

Control sucks, no first person option, and you get to play a Muslim who creeps around offing Christians: it this really a good story line in a post 9-11 world? Couldn't they have simply changed it around enough to strip out any and all real-world cultural/religious refernces?

Assassin's Creed PC