Assassin's Creed | 
| From: UBI Soft
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Rating:  244 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 34339
Model: 15782621
UPC: 008888343394
EAN: 0008888343394
ASIN: B000P46NMA
Publication Date: November 2007
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| 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. |
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Amazon.com
Assassin's Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. 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. Key Features - Be an Assassin: 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.
- Realistic and responsive environments: Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
- Action with a new dimension - total freedom: Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
- Relive the epic times of the Crusades: Assassin's Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
- Intense action rooted in reality: Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
- Next-gen gameplay: The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.
Product Description
Assassin's Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creedmerges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. 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 immediateenvironment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history. Be an Assassin 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. Realistic and responsive environmentsCrowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests. Action with a new dimension -- total freedom Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives. Relive the epic times of the Crusades Assassin's Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and thesubtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world. Intense action rooted in reality Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels. Next-gen gameplay The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-genconsole allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp,
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Assassin's Creed November 16, 2009
Kevin Blank (Costa Rica)
Great game, great graphics. Though it gets a little repetitive by the middles. Since it the game only gets more difficult it doesnt really change the way you do things. But never the less a game worth purchusing.
 My Favorite Game of 2007 November 7, 2009
Steven M. Shearer (Costa Mesa, CA USA)
Some get board with the repetitive game play, but not me. I really enjoyed this game.
Same Scenes and Missions (BORED) October 31, 2009
JORGUEN (San Jose, CR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
TOO many missions? YES.. EQUAL? YES... the same **** always! but i gave it a 5 review, cuz the way it ends and all the things that we need to know about history and misterys to understand it is JST CRAZY!! the close that this game is with the real history is CRAZY ALSO!! for example The ASSASSINS CASTLE IT DOES EXIST in SIRIA! and wow the REAL ASSASINS used to be there at the same time the story takes effect! and not only that! the ones that were killed? that insane but they dissapear around the same time and the EXISTED!! just insane!! cant wait to play the second part... but im praying to be different!! i do want to use FIORE KNOW!!!
Assasins Creed: Is It Worth The Buy??? October 31, 2009
JamesRollinsAndClemensFan01...
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Assasins Creed: Is it Worth The Buy???
everything you need to know about the game before you make your decition.
now, everyone is different in the world. we all have many diverse opinions and likes. it's what makes us, us.
Now Assasins Creed, is now, relitivly inexspecive now that it has been out for a wile now. however, some people might ask, well if it worth the buy if I hear negative things about the game??? To honestly answer the question. just because I like it, dosn't mean you will.
now I will warn you, if you havn't read the rating, it is rated Mature for 17 and up. it is a verry graphic game. you are an assasin in this game, there will be blood.
now that that's said, time for the review of the game...
Assasin's Creed takes place in the time of the Crusades. you start out you are an assasin in a guild of your kind (Assasin's[Brotherhood]) you have 9 targets you are to assasinate within the course of the game. you'll be taking lives of men in a immersiable virtual 'reality'.
when you get a name and place to travel to from your 'Master' (Guild Leader)you must exit the Guild's city and mount a horse or travel on foot if you really want to be there a wile. once you race down the trail you must find road markers that tell you the direction of your destination. once done follow until you reach your destination.
once you have you must enter the city, meet at the city's (conveinent) Assasin's Headquarter's,interrogate,Pickpocet, or Eavesdropp upon people who know 'too much'. once done with such, you return to HQ and set out the next morning to the assasination.
so first thing to note is, the SCENERY. it is quite lif-like, which is a BIG pluss for PS3. The scenery is quite remarkable, the buildings are amazing defeat in gamming. you can climb just about EVERYTHING inside cities. speaking of such you have the English Port Acher, Holy City Jurusalem, The Imfamous Damacus,Kingdom which is the place you go between the cities on your travels. and of course the Guild Homebase city. All places are remarkable looking. a big plus.
Second Thing is your assasin tools. unfotunetly in the beginning of the game you are ripped from you weapons and after every assasination you get one tool back. once all tools are accuired you are a EXTREAMLY leathal Assasin. HOWERVER you ARE NOT INVINCABLE!!! ONE thing I will recamend GREATLY is you USE the fighting-ring at your Guild city. master your abilities, they are what will make you UNSTOPPABLE in your gameplay. I know will not want to, but it WILL help...
Third Thing the Assasination DO differ. never-the-less relitivly slightly. you do have to find info on your, so to be, Vic (Victim). which intails Interagation, Pickpocketing documents, and Eavedropping on follish people who don't think your listening. each time you go to Assasinate a Vic you will have a district (Poor,Middle, High District's) don't worry, the places you won be able to go to once you first start will be little of concern. there's PLENTY of City to go around, I mean it litilary... now don't exspect to get all of your targets with your fancy assasin's blade (hidden in your special mecanizim on your army of maddmen on your back. my first assination went from analizing the situation to mayhem in a split second. NEVER over-think your plan of attack. if you think you're guise is worked enough for you to reach and kill the vic then DO NOT HESITATE. HOWEVER let's get away from the gameplay...
Fourth Thing is the DARK SIDE OF THE GAME.
Now I will be BLUNT, THE GAME YOU WILL BUY WILL HAVE GLITCHES. somtimes the will anger you, and somtimes the will be a slight irritant. in the game it tells you if you have a glitch push any button on your controller. somtimes it works somtimes (most of the time)it dosen't. NOW don't base you decision on the DARK SIDE. as I was close to doing before buying this game. I read some negative things in a review and I would have missed out on a awesomely put togeather game. with a DARK SIDE there is alway a GOOD SIDE. you'll have more fun in the game then you will have glitches. I guarentee it.
now the main idea here is to tell you the new's in the game. I have finished the game, I know what will be instore for you inside it. now how you execute your assasination is solely up to you, the gammer. and so I wish good fortunes on your endevours within the game...
YES THIS GAME IS A GOOD BUY: it is now fairly inexspecive and it will be quite a remarkable ride withing the Crusades. your style.
and So YES if you are eligible for the rating then BUY it. if it has pricked your interest than BUY it, I definatly loved the game, and I hope you will too.
JRF01...
N.B
 Superbly lavish graphics and world, repetitive gameplay October 28, 2009
J. Davis
I feel this game had good promise, but eventually fell rather flat on the gameplay part.
First of all, the world is absolutely gorgeous. The cities are huge, and painstakingly rendered. Viewing the entire sweep of a city from a high point is amazing: the small clustered houses, the crenelated walls, the looming bulk of a fortress or church on the skyline...there are many views that are stunning. I found the Assassins' fortress at Masyaf to also be very visually imposing.
Plus it's fun to just run around the Holy Land and visit fabled cities like Jerusalem and Acre and Damascus. There's a lot to explore, and it's fun to find the flags. (Though I have no idea why Richard's flags are so often being guarded by saracen guards).
The fighting is visually quite excellent, especially when you pull off a counter move and the camera enters cinematic mode. There are several different 'scenes' that play out and they look amazing. That said, the combat is rather flat. You can sneak up behind someone and assassinate them, which is an instant kill, but if you have to engage in actual sword play, you have essentially two options. You hit square over and over and over until they fall over dead, or you can simply hold block and do a counter move when they swing at you, which is basically an instant kill. I quickly learned that I could defeat almost infinite amounts of guards by backing into a corner so they couldn't get behind me and just hold block and do the counter move over and over. This rather lessened the fear of being discovered when you could take out 10-12 guards at once. A few of the guards, if you blocked too long, would grab you and throw you to the ground, which I thought was a great mechanic (and actually got me killed once fighting aboard a ship!) but did very little to actually make the combats harder as the other guards would not capitalize on this opportunity and you could just stand back up and get back in the fight while they watched.
The view points: Climbing a viewpoint and getting the cinematic sweep of the terrain is nice but...there are way too many viewpoints. I only want to do it two or three times in a city, not a dozen. The screeching jump into the hay pile is only fun so many times, after all. Having to climb viewpoint after viewpoint isn't all that exciting. I think the developers were (justifiably) proud of their world and wanted to show it off to you as much as possible.
The 'investigations' proceeding an assassination are also rather tedious after the first couple times: you basically just do the same couple things over and over: pick pocket, informant, or interrogate. Although I will say some of the informant tasks are among the harder things you'll be asked to do: such as assassinating a knight (easy) without having your cover broken at any point (significantly harder, and not required for the 'main' assassinations).
The 'blending' mechanic seemed goofy to me. I think the game could have done without this mechanic. The only time it's really necessary is to sneak into some areas inside a group of Scholars. Why is walking incredibly slowly to make detection less likely a fun and compelling experience? I generally found I could just 'normal walk' sufficiently far away from the guards and generally avoid issues. Avoiding 'yellow' guards attacking me this way was very easy, and usually a 'red' guard wouldn't attack me either if I simply walked instead of ran. Anyway, if a guard *did* attack me, I could simply kill him, and that took care of the problem. Or you could just hop onto the roofs and dash around at will (which is fun!). The roof climbing portion is visually impressive, but it's not as much a 'platformer' as Prince of Persia. Basically you can press run, and sprint, and the game does all the jumping for you as long as you hold the joystick in the right direction. It's much easier than Prince of Persia in that respect.
I found the whole 'animus' thing rather tedious and not a particularly good addition to gameplay. I particularly disliked the blue and white swirly 'loading room' it put you in before each mission. It was like a loading screen for a loading screen and since you can move around, you wonder...should I be moving around? Are some directions better than others? What do I do? But all you have to do is just stand there and eventually the real mission loads.
Also, I was not impressed by how the the game comes out of the box with bugs that cause freezing issues.
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