Assassin's Creed (PS3) > Reviews > Assassin's Creed, a good overall game

Author's product rating:   

Playability & Enjoyment	A good game - playable and enjoyable
Originality	Excellent - very original
Graphics	Excellent
Sound	Not bad - needs improving
Difficulty & Complexity	Average - suitable for most

Advantages:	Good graphics, gameplay, combat, and it is fun for the first few hours .
Disadvantages:	Repetative speech and combat, lots of glitches and a short game overall

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This is a very good game. Let me make this clear. Its graphics are very good. The map is big to say the least and the gameplay is fun and intuative. You need to think to be good at this game: "Where is the best rooftop to hide on", "What will be my escape route", these should be the questions that you will ask yourself. The combat is also fun, however I find it a bit too easy and can easily take down over 20 guards without taking much damage. This is because the guards fail to work together, yes they surround you, but they wait and only one guard will attack at a time. This allows you to fight large numbers of guards on open rooftops and terrain. However the story changes once you are inside a confined space. The combat becomes more difficult as you can become trapped or miss a guard among a stack of carpets. This is a usually fatal mistake. I find one of the most fun parts of the game is the roof running. This allows you to move across the whole city unobserved or to escape the guards easily. The guards on the roofs are only a small problem and it is very easy to take them down without them seeing you, as it should be done as you are an assassin. The one other negative point is that the game is very short, only nine assassinations and it is easily completeable in 25 hours or less. This seems a little short for a game that costs fifty pounds, and it looks from the end of the story line that they are also lining up for a sequel. I will now summarise the game as a list of pros and cons:

Pros:
-It has brilliant graphics
-The maps are large and almost fully explorable and you are able to get to every rooftop and climb almost every wall
-The combat is fun and you feel a sense of achievement slaying lots of guards or your target in cool ways.
-The game as a whole has quite a good storyline, although in todays sense it doesn't really make sense.

Cons:
-It is quite repetative, the phrases you hear and the attacks you can carry out aren't very varied.
-The game is very short, only 9 assassinations in total, each one taking up to 2 hours.
-The game can turn out to be buggy at points, in the cut scenes they even advise you that if you see a glitch to change the view.