Assassin's Creed

So I finally managed to play through Assassin's Creed!

I tried it a few times when it came out with the version my brother bought, but never sat through it (just like AC II). And I still know why ...

I have no idea why it became so popular with its first part. First I heard from it, I hoped it would be like a new Prince of Persia, but that hope was destroyed very early. A futuristic storyline (which isn't bad), and jumping, climbing and fighting system made for babies:

"You want to climb that huge amazing tower right there? Well, just press 'W'..."

It looks cool how Altair makes his moves, but it requires absolutely no skill from the player. Even the jumps are done automatically o.O

Maybe the fights recompense it!

No ...

An assassin who kills the whole city guard army, if he wants, hides in a hay pile and everything is fine!

Fighting is like this:

- Hold the right mouse button to parry everyone.

- wait until someone starts an attack on you 

- spam the left mouse button to make a counter attack

--repeat these steps until everyone is dead

---repeat these steps 18 hours until you bet the game

Basically that's it.

Do a few side quests, which aren't really fun, until you can kill the next Big Man. Do that 9 times.

The story is a bit confusing, at least for me. It's always a bit hard for me to follow a story, when it is only spoken by someone. But nonetheless it is a promising start for a wider storyline.

The graphics are quite OK for its release date in 2007 and I nearly didn't have any bugs.

To sum it up: It's a good looking game with too boring game play mechanics, a too long extended quest line with too much repetitive elements. I only played it for the sake of it and because I hope that the later games are better. I wouldn't recommend it to others.

5/10