Assassin's Creed (PlayStation 3)

Add to my list
Print
E-mail
Share

Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 8 reviews Back to product review
My rating: 0 stars

1 of 8

next review

Full user review

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

4.5 stars

"Great sandbox game, but it lacks some of the basics"

by B5309 on November 18, 2007

Pros: Great looking enviornments, climbing is entertaining, and the city looks very realistic, it is vast and most of it is very interactive

Cons: Not enough side missions to keep game entertaining indefinitely, climbing can be difficult to control at times, and lack of dialog for city characters, and lack of varying attacks and fighting
Summary: This game is sure to set a new standard for all sandbox games. Assassin's Creed has a compeling story with good dialog in the prerendered stories, but a complete lack of variety in the everday city characters. Save citizen only has aproximately four sayings, and they are repeated contastly. Also, the orators spewing propaganda all say the say short phrase, and at one point in Damascus you can stand at a point where you hear two orators saying the same exact thing. Missions have variety enough, and all the characters seem to provoked deep thoughts that are not present in other games. Riding through the kingdom is nothing short of hell, since one must crawl by guards unless they want to fight a dozen people at a time. Fighting also becomes very repeditive and boring, cutscenes for counter attacks are exciting at first, but after seeing them several times, along with fighting the dimwhitted AIs watch you kill a guy for 10 seconds whilst crouching makes you rather bored. Overall, exploration in the cities is exciting and fun, but once the 9 assassinations are done, there is not much one can do in the cities other than save citizens, which becomes extremely repeditive. But don't let the downfalls scare you off, or the fact that it is not a shooter scare you off. As a Halo and COD fan, I can assure you that this game will entertain all who play it.

Thank you for submitting your feedback!

Was this review helpful? YES | NO

Report this post Email this post

Reply to this review

next review

Write review Back to product review See all 8 reviews

Submit your reply

Where to buy

Assassin's Creed (PlayStation 3): $14.50 - $29.99

store	price	in stock?
	$17.32	Yes
	$19.99	Yes
	$18.99	No
Buy.com	$19.99	Yes
	$14.50	No

see prices from 6 stores

Thanks for your submission!

Thank you for helping us maintain CNET's great community.

Submit your review

Assassin's Creed (PlayStation 3)

ORLog in with your Facebook account

1. Rate this product:: (Mouse over the stars to rate this product and click to set your rating.)
2. One-line summary:(Summarize your review in one line. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 55 characters
3. Pros:(Tell us what you like about this product. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 250 characters
4. Cons:(Tell us what you don't like about this product. 10 characters minimum; required.): 0 of 250 characters
Bottom-line summary:(Explain to us in detail why you like or dislike the product, focusing your comments on the product's features and functionality, and your experience using the product. This field is optional.): 0 of 5000 characters; Submit