Assassins Creed

“HUGE POTENTIAL, BUT DEFINITELY HUGE LETDOWN”

A. TYPE OF GAME: Sandbox Style Action Adventure

B. MISSION OF GAME: The game begins in the 21st century and you assume the identity of a character named Desmond Miles. Desmond is just a regular Joe working as a bartender until one day he is kidnapped by a company named Abstergo. They kidnap you in order to try to uncover hidden memories of your assassin ancestors from the 12th century. The majority of the game is played through the character Altair, an ancestor of Desmond Miles. Altair meets with Al Mualim “The Teacher” who is the leader of the assassins. He is extremely annoyed with you because he finds you cocky and arrogant. The Teacher demotes you to the lowest rank of an initiate in order to teach you that you need wisdom and patience to succeed.

As you rise through the ranks of the assassin brotherhood, you become more proficient with combat and game play. The Teacher gives you the task of assassinating nine key figures across the Holy Land. The assassinations are supposed to bring peace between the competing Christian and Muslim groups. Ultimately you learn that the Teacher has betrayed you. Instead of trying to bring peace to the Holy Land, the Teacher was using the competing Christian and Muslim groups to fight against your brotherhood…the Assassins! You must defeat your Teacher and uncover the mysteries of both the past and present Assassin brotherhood before it is too late.

C. LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: Very easy. I Highly recommend playing this game on the most difficult setting because it is easily finished in under a day.

D. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESS: The best part about the game is the detailed and captivating storyline. The combat scenes are really enjoyable to play. I was frustrated because I was insanely annoyed that I had to hunt down all nine targets in the same manor. I felt like I kept repeating the same sequence of events over and over. The assassinations became tedious and monotonous after the 5th one. However, I still look forward to the release of Assassins Creed 2. I pray that Ubisoft made this one a more interesting game to play. Hopefully it can grasp my attention from start to finish and offer more of a challenge than the original.

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OVERALL RATING: 4 out of 10