Assassin's Creed

Mr E

Out on Friday, the reviews are starting to come in. Verdict? All 95%+ so far.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/assassinscreed

Thank God Christmas is coming up, because I can't afford all these.....

Melion

Starting work in Smyths on Wednesday, hopefully be bringing it home with me. Been looking forward to this for months, i want it even more than i want GTA

CarefulNow

Excellent game. Jumping around all over the place is great fun.

kensutz

Played it for a couple of hours last night and it's the business.

Hal1

Been waiting months for this release. Reminds me of thief another awesome game.

wes

The game look brilliant. Very much looking forward to this and Mario Galaxy is out the same time .

mayordenis

i have to finish orange box and phantom hourglass this week or else i'm in danger of being eaten by the glut of games, lets not forget mass effect, raving rabbids 2 and guitar hero 3 all before the end of november

tman

Any idea of it's region free or not?

Ciaran500

T'is region free.

RAIN

mayordenis wrote: »

i have to finish orange box and phantom hourglass this week or else i'm in danger of being eaten by the glut of games, lets not forget mass effect, raving rabbids 2 and guitar hero 3 all before the end of november

Im in the same boat!
Im playing phantom hour glass on my breaks at work and then home to play Halo & Call of Duty .... I want to get through them before i start orange box and assasin creed. I cant remember a better time to be into games.

Basq

Haven't played it.. have never taken advantage of the downloadable demos in XBox Live like i said i would.

Last game i downloaded due to all your recommendations was PES 2008.. and we all know how that turned out!

Zapp Brannigan

Melion wrote: »

Starting work in Smyths on Wednesday, hopefully be bringing it home with me. Been looking forward to this for months, i want it even more than i want GTA

They wouldn't give my mate a discount until after 3 months work...so good luck with that!

kensutz

basquille wrote: »

Haven't played it.. have never taken advantage of the downloadable demos in XBox Live like i said i would.

Last game i downloaded due to all your recommendations was PES 2008.. and we all know how that turned out!

No demo available

Basq

Oh, how was kensutz and CarefulNow playing it? Ordered from the States?

kensutz

Not out in the states but like Kenny 5 can get one for a pro contract I can also get one for helping out EA and the likes.

funky penguin

Every thread about assassins creed needs a Jade Raymond photo. For, eh, you know. Things. Boobs.

CiDeRmAn

Too Many Games.... Can't Play Them All.... More about to be released....


It's just not fair, years and years playing crap licensed platformers on the Megadrive back in the early ninties then BAM!!!!!!!! 15 years later more great games than I can shake a stick at, it's an old old story.

Seriously though, I've got Heavenly Sword, COD4, MotorStorm, Super Mario Galaxy, Lego Star Wars Conplete Saga, PGR4, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Metroid Corruption, COD2 (on hard!), Space Giraffe, EEEE, and I want to buy Assasins Creed and The Orange Box, then there's Mass Effect, Rock Band, Uncharted Drake fortune, Ace Combat 6, Resi Evil Umbrella Chron, Geometry Wars Galaxies and Visual Training for my DS, too many great games, not to mention the financial outlay on great games I'm not going to have time to play.
Whats a gamer to do?

FranchisePlayer

funky penguin wrote: »

Every thread about assassins creed needs a Jade Raymond photo. For, eh, you know. Things. Boobs.

Yeah she alright.. Anyone seen the gampley actual fight footage does not look that good tbh but great draw dsitance.

Smegball

LOL, for a second there I thought you were saying she didn't look that good but had good draw distance

FranchisePlayer

Smegball wrote: »

LOL, for a second there I thought you were saying she didn't look that good but had good draw distance

lol that is a good interpration lol

tman

Awesome bump mapping too by the look of it...

johnny_ultimate

Think I might have to wait a while to get this - just bought a Wii and need Mario to play on it. But Assassin's Creed just looks so purty...

quarryman

funky penguin wrote: »

Every thread about assassins creed needs a Jade Raymond photo. For, eh, you know. Things. Boobs.

christ on a bike. i thought she was some game model or something....

The producer? Speaks French? Loves games?

me = in love.

xanthor

funky penguin wrote: »

Every thread about assassins creed needs a Jade Raymond photo. For, eh, you know. Things. Boobs.

Make up does wonders.

mcgovern

xanthor wrote: »

Make up does wonders.

You've met here in real life then?

I wouldn't kick her out of bed for playing Assasins Creed!

grizzly

1UP only gives it 76%;

While the story may seem a little complex, the actual game structure is surprisingly simple: Kill nine dudes. Yep, that's it. But before you can start the slaying, you must perform various investigations in order to gather the adequate information for each hit. You gather information in several different ways: picking pockets, eavesdropping on conversations, performing tasks for fellow assassins, and interrogating informants. In order to find out where you need to go in order to accomplish these tasks, you must climb up to various viewpoints throughout each city. (Though how you learn where to eavesdrop by simply climbing up a building is beyond me.) Regardless, turning Altaïr into a medieval Spider-Man in order to reach high points is one of the best parts about the game.

Or at least until you get sick of it -- which will likely happen very quickly. The fault of Creed's game structure isn't what you do -- gathering intel and conducting hits is actually pretty sweet. The repetition of these actions, however, is severely bitter. I kept waiting for a changeup of the objectives, and, well, that never happened. From the first hit to the last, you go through the same motions over and over and over...find the viewpoints, do the investigation missions, and take out the final target. It got to the point where I only did the minimum amount of investigation tasks needed to perform each kill. To make things worse, despite Ubisoft's faithfulness to history, the three cities of Acre, Damascus, and Jerusalem are practically the same. Do they have different people populating them? Yes. Do they have different buildings? Yep. Do they have different color tints to remind you that you're actually in a different environment? Uh-huh. But do they actually play any differently? Not at all. Variety is all I want, really, but three open-world cities with little to no indoor areas did not give me that. At least I can't complain about how beautiful these cities look. Not just the cities, either -- everything in Assassin's Creed is covered with a superb coat of polygon polish. Hopefully the beautiful engine that powers this game will be used in future Ubisoft titles.

Branoic

I never pay much attention to 1UP. Did the guy know anything about the game before he played it? It was always going to have a sequel and possibly be the first of a trilogy. B1tching that it feels like it's unfinished and is just setting things up is like b1tching that The Fellowship of the Ring doesn't end properly.

projectmayhem

Branoic wrote: »

I never pay much attention to 1UP. Did the guy know anything about the game before he played it? It was always going to have a sequel and possibly be the first of a trilogy. B1tching that it feels like it's unfinished and is just setting things up is like b1tching that The Fellowship of the Ring doesn't end properly.

what 1up did was review the game from the perspective of someone who didn't read all the crap before the game. played it as it was presented. and for that, i am thankful. all the videos i've seen show very strange (if not outright weak) combat and all this talk of an amazing plot twist seems to have disappeared into "it's still good though" from sources who have played the game that i'm aware of.

it's not a bad review, it's just not buying into the hype and giving it 11/10 (though that score is reserved for super mario galaxy)

Mr E

Eurogamer went the same way as 1up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=87432

I think I'll pick this up 2nd hand in February or March. I've enough games to get through over the next few months.

tman

Mr E wrote: »

Eurogamer went the same way as 1up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=87432

I think I'll pick this up 2nd hand in February or March. I've enough games to get through over the next few months.

They also gave Resident Evil 4 7/10 and Halo 3 10/10 recently, so I've pretty much lost faith in EG.
I've preordered it on play-asia, so won't receive it for a good few weeks, but I've got enough to keep me going in the meantime anyway...

Retr0gamer

quarryman wrote:

me = in love

Get back to the end of the queue with all the other horndogs (including me).

I'll be picking this up along with Mario Galaxy on Friday. I'm going off the sauce this weekend so need some entertainment. Despite the only half decent reviews I'll probably still like it since it's a bit more original than most of the offerings in November. I really enjoyed crackdown and it's being compared to that as well. Also I want ot keep Jade Raymond in a job so we can have more pictures when she reveals her next project.

wayne040576

I was planning to get this on friday but I'll hold off for now at least until I read some more reviews. No gamespot review just yet.

Captain Chaos

I always go off metacritic because it takes the average scores of the major reviewers. Plus it lets you read through them all. I wouldn't trust gamespot anymore after they gave PDZ 9.0, it is the worst game I ever bought for the 360.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/assassinscreed

Overall averge is 9.0, looks like a safe buy to me, if not I'll just take it back after a day or two and change it for something else.

Edit: seems to have taken a knock, down to 8.5, ah well, can't win them all.

A-Trak

My wallet has just breathed a sigh of relief.
It's taken one hell of a beating lately with all the games.

Also have so many games to enjoy, this can wait til 08.

And Mass Effect has yet to drop

Zapp Brannigan

I knew it! I knew this game would be a disappointment! Generally any game I'm really looking forward to ends up being poo! I hope Mass Effect bucks this trend!

Sad Professor

IGN: 7.7

Gamespot: 9.0

hmmmm.

humanji

Gamespot is just a marketing machine for games companies. It just hypes up any old ****e. I actually expected the game to be as 1up described. I'll most likely still get it. It'll tide me over till Mass Effect.

Josey Wales

Not a great review here -

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/834/834676p1.html?RSSwhen2007-11-13_121800&RSSid=834676

ShaneU

Meh forget the reviews, from the videos I've seen it looks brilliant.

Mweelrea

assassins creed will be good but did any1 see the pre-relese comic for it??

its suggested time travel which in my opinion would ruin the game

ghouldaddy07

hhhhhmmmm been looking forward to this for a long time but some of reviews say it gets fairly repetive.

Think it looks worth the gamble though

ghouldaddy07

Will this be released on thursday or friday?

Mweelrea

according to the official xbox mag its friday

johnny_ultimate

Hmm shame the reviews aren't as glowing as game reviews tend to be these days. Definitely looking like Galaxy will be a safer bet on Friday til I hear some more opinions on this one.

Moiph

I have this pre-ordered on play.com. What are the chances of it arriving in the post on friday?? I'm praying it does!

Unearthly

Moiph wrote: »

I have this pre-ordered on play.com. What are the chances of it arriving in the post on friday?? I'm praying it does!

Well I ordered Virtua Tennis 3 off play.com a few months ago and still waiting on it to arrive

Captain Chaos

Moiph wrote: »

I have this pre-ordered on play.com. What are the chances of it arriving in the post on friday?? I'm praying it does!

Nah, I pre-ordered CoD4 LCE in October from Play and I'm still waiting. I bought it in the shop anyway last Friday. Play don't ship games until their release date.

Scruff

it only got 7/10 from eurogamer

TheDoc

you should take into account that this game was hyped as the be all of gaming. This IS a quality game, without a doubt. It slaps prince of persia with a trout and makes hitman look like a choirboy.

The reviews are mostly talking about dissapointment, because it was given so much hype. If this game wasnt hyped at all ive no doubt it would be 9/10.

I dont get into hype much but couldnt help it with this game.

Its well worth the purchase imo

Blazer

Reading some of the reviews I'm starting to have my doubts about this game..
A lot of them are stating that the repetitive play frustrates after a few hours.
a good site for reviews of games seems to be www.1up.com
The reviewer seems to be very balanced and doesn't gloss over the negative points like others.

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3164319

Crysis only got 8 outta 10 while AC gets only 7.

Captain Chaos

Gamespot gave it 9.0 Editors Choice. They say its a must own for every 360 and PS3 owner, and call it a classic that you will remember playing years from now.

And if you look at the other reviews realistically, what game is not repetive? You could say that about CoD4 if you wanted, PGR4 even the great Portal sure look at GoW, cover, shoot, cover repeat for 5 hours. I don't see repetition as a vaild point for dissing a game.