Assassins Creed Thread

Bananna man

So has anyone got it yet? I dont know if i should get it this weekend because im still playing a lot of Call Of Duty and some of the reviews weren't great.

PeakOutput

its only getting slated because there was so much hype around it

the basics of the reviews iv seen / been told about say

the detail is amazing

the control system is amazing

the story is great but they deal with it badly

it might get boring near the end

i think people were expecting way to much and instead of a ground breaking game they got an excellent game and therefore they are slating it but ill reserve complete judgement till i get it tonight

ciano14

Bananna man wrote: »

So has anyone got it yet? I dont know if i should get it this weekend because im still playing a lot of Call Of Duty and some of the reviews weren't great.

same as you man ,
my friend is getting it later so he's going to tell me if its worth getting and if it is i'll get it tomorrow
do you think there will be some left in dublin or would they be sold out ?

Branoic

I mentioned this in the Assassin's Creed thread in the Xbox forum, but I'll mention it here too. Gabe of Penny Arcade has posted what in my few is a very good and sensible reply to the odd couple of reviews that scored the game low and accused it of being repetitive. He makes some good points. I've got the game, and loving it so far.

roadrunner41

Branoic wrote: »

I mentioned this in the Assassin's Creed thread in the Xbox forum, but I'll mention it here too. Gabe of Penny Arcade has posted what in my few is a very good and sensible reply to the odd couple of reviews that scored the game low and accused it of being repetitive. He makes some good points. I've got the game, and loving it so far.

Yea would have to agree with you there, very good review indeed.

Im going to get it in smyths tonight, rather judge it for myself than through reviewers who have been expecting a game which has absolutely no cons

AnCapaillMor

Liking it too, picking pockets is annoying.

AtomicHorror

I'd have it right now but I can't seem to find it. In a crappy small town so my only options are Tesco or Golden Discs. Neither has it! Strangely, Tescos have it at number 1 in their PS3 charts but there's not a copy in sight. Was there at lunch time so it could hardly be sold out yet.

Branoic, I envy you right now. Give me your copy.

Branoic

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Branoic, I envy you right now. Give me your copy.

Ha, not likely! Why don't you just pop down to Liffey Valley for it?

bigslick

arghhhh i really want to rent this before i buy it but cant find it in any xtra visions today. maybe they just havent put it out to rent yet

Vorrtexx

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Strangely, Tescos have it at number 1 in their PS3 charts but there's not a copy in sight.

That was fast, didn't it only come out today?

DeVore

Vorrtexx wrote: »

That was fast, didn't it only come out today?

You mean you actually believe those charts??

Man, I take them to be "lists sorted by release date" if you get me

DeV.

ShaneU

Just because they have the chart doesn't mean they have all the games for it. The tesco I work in doesn't even have smackdown on the ps2 in yet and it's been number 1 for a week.

xanthor

54.99 in Tesco BTW.

Vorrtexx

DeVore wrote: »

You mean you actually believe those charts??

Man, I take them to be "lists sorted by release date" if you get me

DeV.

Not really especially if it just came out today. I rarely purchase games in bricks and mortar so I never even see the charts they have in store.

AnCapaillMor

Tesco's games section outside dublin are a joke.

AtomicHorror

DeVore wrote: »

You mean you actually believe those charts??

Not even slightly. I used to work in Xtravision, so I know the score with those things

They're less "by release date" than "by the order we wish them to sell".

AtomicHorror

bigslick wrote: »

arghhhh i really want to rent this before i buy it but cant find it in any xtra visions today. maybe they just havent put it out to rent yet

More than likely it's due to go out today but the guy who opened up this morning found that the manager didn't bother unpack the rental copies last night. I'm sure it'll be out on the shelves tonight.

NotorietyH

I'm really in two minds whether to get the game or not. It sounds like it's a pretty expansive game, one review saying that if you rush through it, it hsould take you 20 hours, so it should keep me busy until Rock Band, but COD4 is keeping me occupied enough at the moment.

I'm sure my impulses will get the better of me when I pop down to Xtra-vision in a minute and find there's no dvd worth renting. Damn me and my complete and utter lack of willpower.

bigslick

AtomicHorror wrote: »

More than likely it's due to go out today but the guy who opened up this morning found that the manager didn't bother unpack the rental copies last night. I'm sure it'll be out on the shelves tonight.

success!!! scored the last copy in store (rental) but cant play tonight due to female interference , but got it for 3 nights so hopefully will et good idea of it

projectmayhem

i've got too much to play. gears of war PC, crysis, ratchet & clank and super mario galaxy. if all these stories get jumbled up in my head we could be in for some interesting times

Headshot

i was expecting alot more from this game
the camera is crap and my god

going from the future to the past

is crap

EdK

Great game best i've played in a while Pro Ev and SD vs Raw 08 were major let downs but this is great fun, for now anyway

AnCapaillMor

Just running around jerusalem now, the game has totally blown me away. Fantastic game.

Thus far I am loving it.

PeakOutput

im liking it too so far but im only at the very begining

t r a k

tell me this, how do u guys go about killing 4 guards harrassing someone? I L1 target the guy in front folding his arms and 2 seconds later the guards are onto me before i move. How do you go about wiping the 4 out as quick as possible?

PeakOutput

t r a k wrote: »

tell me this, how do u guys go about killing 4 guards harrassing someone? I L1 target the guy in front folding his arms and 2 seconds later the guards are onto me before i move. How do you go about wiping the 4 out as quick as possible?

havnt got to this yet but if you have throwing knives try that

EdK

It's alot easier to take on 2 or more when you have the counter moves my record is 8 on 1

Branoic

t r a k wrote: »

tell me this, how do u guys go about killing 4 guards harrassing someone? I L1 target the guy in front folding his arms and 2 seconds later the guards are onto me before i move. How do you go about wiping the 4 out as quick as possible?

You can't stealth kill them all. It's a straight up fight. You lock on, and a few seconds later you've got the 4 or more guys on you. My advise is to have the hidden blades selected first. The instant you lock on, walk up to your target before he moves and you can assassinate him with the hidden blades for an insta-kill. Then whip out the short blade for the rest of the guys (I find the short blade really is much more effective against a group than your sword).

Branoic

I've played the game for about 9 hours now and have killed the first three targets. My impressions so far are that its great, and I'm more of the Gamespot view than the Eurogamer.

I really enjoy the intelligence gathering missions, and so far you've only need to complete 2 out of 6 to activate the actual assassination mission, but I've gone and done all of them in each instance.

Some things however that are slightly annoying:

• I enjoy the "save the citizen" fights, but there is not enough variety in what the saved citizens say afterwards. Too much recycling of voice bits.
• The assassin's bureau in each city is identical. I mean, the exact same layout, just with a different NPC. It feels a bit cheap and lazy considering the amazing detail in the rest of the cities. How hard could it have been to come up with a different floorplan?
• The "Kingdom" bit between the cities is a bit pointless. There's nothing to do except get from A to B and the soldiers attack you far too readily.

All of these things are slight annoyances though, I still think its a fantastic game.

ShaneU

hmm deja vu.

Branoic

ShaneU wrote: »

hmm deja vu.

Must be a glitch in the....er...animus?

ciano14

got it for €59.99 in xtravision (artane castle)
and with €5 worth of rental vouchers
liking the game so far ...its much different than anything i've ever played before

AnCapaillMor

Anyone notice andy lockups, i've seen it happen twice and so's my mate on his ps3.

t r a k

yea, the game has locked up on me a couple of times now...

I've just completed my second assassination, and im loving this game... I had a great killing spree in Acre since obtaining the combo move... I have mario galaxy for the wii here also, but theres no chance of me sacrificing my creed playing time for it

Branoic

Yes, apparently the PS3 version of the game is suffering from lock-ups, which sucks major donkey balls. From posts made by Ubisoft on the official forum, it looks like it's something to do with the recent 2.0 firmware update. I've had my version freeze 4 times in the last two days. Not too bad, but annoying.

AtomicHorror

Two freeze-ups here. Seems to happen quite soon after a checkpoint though, so I haven't lost anything.

Great game, really enjoying it. Currently on the 3rd target. Rescuing the civilians is a good laugh, I generally end up bringing a whole load of guards down on me as well, particularly in Acre. Using counter moves I can handle about 10 or so. One of the criticisms of the game, that the enemies will attack 1 by 1... well, I'm actually finding that they'll alternately attack me, hit me from behind, throw me to each other. They seem to work as a group to me.

Best moment so far: Crazy leper guy pushes me over a bunch of times as I try to pass. So I get pissed, grab him and throw him back. He stumbles and falls against a scaffolding which promptly collapses on top of him. A cloud of dust, falling timber, screams. The dust fades and the freak is gone. I exit quickly. Oops.

Just had it lock up on me. My save data was corrupted and I have to start over :mad::mad::mad: I was on memory block 4:mad:
As much as I love the game this has really pi**ed me off.

xanthor

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Anyone notice andy lockups, i've seen it happen twice and so's my mate on his ps3.

The eagle above one of the churches in Jerusalem froze on me - everything else is fine, but the eagle looks like it's just suspended in mid air.

EdK

I have 2.0 and mine hasn't frozen at all (touch wood) and i'm on memory block four

Vorrtexx

The game seems to be bugged to jiggery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZgkrL0CVo

(be sure to turn off the sound while watching the vid, music is terrible!)

It's too bad, I wanted to pick this game up but I think I'll hold off until this stuff is fixed.

Branoic

Whoopsie, I've just been reading around various places, and it seems that you're actually meant to (or at least, are able to) do things in the "Present" setting as Desmond in between missions, like talk to the girl, read email files on the computers, pick-pocket a flash drive from the doctor and stuff. I haven't been doing any of this stuff. I've been behaving like a good boy and going to my bedroom when they told me to and just getting back on the animus. Next time I'm in the Present I'll have a good root around. Hope I haven't missed any major story explanation elements.

AtomicHorror

Branoic wrote: »

Whoopsie, I've just been reading around various places, and it seems that you're actually meant to (or at least, are able to) do things in the "Present" setting as Desmond in between missions, like talk to the girl, read email files on the computers, pick-pocket a flash drive from the doctor and stuff. I haven't been doing any of this stuff. I've been behaving like a good boy and going to my bedroom when they told me to and just getting back on the animus. Next time I'm in the Present I'll have a good root around. Hope I haven't missed any major story explanation elements.

As of memory block 3 all I've done is talk to the girl until she told me to shut up and use a computer. The computer had her email on it with some snarky emails from her boss.

EdK

Just offed the executioner its beginning to get fairly repetitive now still pretty fun though

It's kind of go to Bureau, collect info, back to bureau, kill target, back to bureau then back to the master,hoping for a bit of a change up here soon

AnCapaillMor

You don't have to go to the bureau when you first arrive, just after your investigations. Just did the 7th kill in damascus, bloody hell it really jumped up a level after the 6th assasination, very easily detected and there's no fighting the guards off they keep coming, i killed 20+ before i ran off and tried to hide at my first save the citizen attempt.

I'd about 30 guys chasing me after the 7th assasination, and next thing i know theres 2 bloody templars that i someohow managed to piss off as well. Saving the citizen is a must vigilantes really come in handy.

thebman

Its easy to fight off all the guards though. I mean I've fought about 20-30 or them and just had a pile of bodies everywhere no problem. Your health recharges so you just sit around and wait for them to attack and counter if they do attack and push them if they grab you.

Its easy enough. I found it difficult to loose the guards on later levels and on the last assasination, vigilantes were a must and not only because its funny to watch them hold guards back.

The game is pretty good but it has problems. The camera is annoying when it locks itself to something I know is happening but I'm trying to go somewhere else. I don't know how they didn't work out this was annoying in testing.

Graphics are superb, draw distance isn't on 360. It does get a bit reptitive near the end but I still climbed every tower and did all the information finding missions and saved all the citizens and collected any flags I ran into, didn't go looking for them though.

It is a long enough game. I started yesterday evening and only finished today around 20:00 but it could be done quicker if you skipped half the stuff you don't have to do.

Mitch Connor

Few questions about the game.

1. what the hell are you supposed to do? I was told to go to Damascus, so I went off towards it, but when i get to the road leading to Damascus, there is a big blue wall in front of it and it says I can not access this memory yet. There do not appear to be any objectives to do. Had a poke around a little village on the way, but there didn't seem to be anything to interact with (bar the two templars I offed and a few viewpoints)

2. Are the guards supposed to be permently sus of you? They attack me whenever they see me, no matter what. Walking into a new area, walk past a guard and BANG, have 4 of them after me trying to take the head from my body..... WHY?? Do you HAVE to blend every single time you are within sight of a guard?

t r a k

1. Did you scale the tower at the encampment along the way?

Mitch Connor

t r a k wrote: »

1. Did you scale the tower at the encampment along the way?

I've scaled about 3 towers along the way... i'll have another look around next time I have a chance to play though

Branoic

Tauren wrote: »

Few questions about the game.

1. what the hell are you supposed to do? I was told to go to Damascus, so I went off towards it, but when i get to the road leading to Damascus, there is a big blue wall in front of it and it says I can not access this memory yet. There do not appear to be any objectives to do. Had a poke around a little village on the way, but there didn't seem to be anything to interact with (bar the two templars I offed and a few viewpoints)

2. Are the guards supposed to be permently sus of you? They attack me whenever they see me, no matter what. Walking into a new area, walk past a guard and BANG, have 4 of them after me trying to take the head from my body..... WHY?? Do you HAVE to blend every single time you are within sight of a guard?

1) Are you 100% sure you're heading in the right direction for Damascus and not one of the other two cities? They'll be blocked off with the memory wall for the time being but the route to Damascus definitely should not be. Climbing a view point shouldn't have any bearing on if the way is blocked or not.

2) As you haven't reached Damascus yet, I assume you're talking about the guards in the villages and countryside? If so, then yes, even if you walk the horse at a normal pace in low profile they will often come after you. You either need to blend each time you pass them, or go high profile and gallop past. If you gallop past you may get past quick enough that they're not triggered, or if they are triggered, you'll outrun them. I just often gallop all over the Kingdom with a trail of soldiers following me. When you reach the cities they vanish. When you're in the cities you don't have the horse, and its the horse that makes the countryside guards more suspicious of you. The one's in the cities aren't as jumpy. Well, until you lose your temper and go stabbity stabbity with the beggars and drunks.

Mitch Connor

Cool - i'm almost certain i am on the right road to damascus - the icon for maascus is very close tot he area I can not see behind the memory wall, and the signpost beside it seems to point towards it too. There is another road, leading in semmingly the wrong direction that I can try, so I might give that a go when I have a chance too.