Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360) > Reviews > Good But Not Worth The Hype

Author's product rating:   

Playability & Enjoyment	A good game - playable and enjoyable
Addictiveness	Not exactly addictive but certainly playable
Graphics	Excellent
Difficulty & Complexity	Quite a simple game not too complicated
Value for money	Limited value

Advantages:	Graphics, Sound And A Good Story
Disadvantages:	No Online Or Multiplayer And You Will Have Finished It In Around A Week

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

=== Genral ===
This is a great game in general but i think its a little over-rated

Graphics

The graphics are amazing almost perfect but you can still see traces of glitches in the graphics and in some places some sloppyness. theres a few textures that look like they were made to fit somwere, but then they decided to use them on somthing else aswell so they have jus stretched some textures and you can clearly see the pixels in them.

Characters

They have a load of different characters running around the streets walkin past each other gently moving each other out of the way.

A.i

The AI on the characters are spot on if your climbing a building they will stop to look what you are doing, then if you look down from the building you can see the people pointing and talking about you.There is a good amount of boss characters too, and non look anything like each other.

Sound

The sound quality is great you feel that you are in a real city you can here people talking around you and birds flying around above you.

Controls

The controls are pretty basic i would say its a mix between the grand theft auto controls and the prince of persia ones.The climbing controls are pretty basic just move in the direction of were your trying to climb.
The fighting controls are just right you use one trigger to lock on, one to block your attacks and the buttons to do multiple things like dodge to jump out of the way of a attack, one to hit your enemy and one to counter an attack, counters are what you will be using the most there the easiest way to quickly kill an enemy there made up of timing you have to hit the X button while a enemy is lunging at you.

Plot

The plot is great although it isnt all based in the past like it seemed on the trailers there is still a great story to it.

Online or multiplayer?

Non!.. It lets it down not having multiplayer because even though the game is quite long the hardcore gamer who trys to finish this in under a day has nothing else to do after. Theres tiny side quests like capture al the city flags and doing little achievements like jumping through 20 market stalls and knocking over so many beggers.Not that fun to do after you have finished the game.

Advantages

1. Amazing Graphics.
2. Great Sound.
3. Good Story Plot.
4. A.i.
5. Bosses Can Be Quite Challenging.
6. Nice Wide Landscapes.
7. The Ability To Climb EVERY Building.
8. Camera Angles Are Pretty Good.

Disadvantages

1. Controls Can Get Glitchy And You End Up Jumping Off A Building Onto Sombodys Head.
2. No Multiplayer.
3. Gets Repetetive.
4. Crashes Easily. Did it to me while it was saving! so i had to start it all again. And its the same evertime.
5. The Hints From The Side Quests Are Just Insane To Understand.
6. Dont Get A Good Play Out Of The Money Your Spending on it

Overall since it is the kind of game that i like ill give it a
9 out of 10
I recommend it to anyone that likes to play a great game but wont mind taking it back to the shop after 1-2 week and exchanging it for somthing else.