Playstation 3 Item ID: #361Assassin’s Creed Limited Edition
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Item DescriptionAssassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history. Next-gen gameplay – The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic. Limited Edition Contents – Collectible 3-inch Altair Figure Penny Arcade Comic Mini Strategy Guide Bonus Disc – Winner’s of Assassin’s Creed short film contest, behind-the-scenes videos, developer diaries, trailers, producer interviews, downloads and more Item Reviews5 Responses to “Assassin’s Creed Limited Edition”Leave a Reply |
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In a nutshell, repititious. Once you complete a mission or two, you repeat the same actions over and over. Even the street characters in the various cities (and sections of the cities) are the same but dressed differently, ie, the street beggars, the local thugs, the soldiers, their little spiels. The beggars are especially annoying. Beautiful graphics, great story, love riding the horses and leaping off of tall buildings, but overall, a let down.
Why is it that some games hit the spot, yet disappear in favor of the first person, shooter games, that have you run around and participate in reduntant time killers. This game started out with so much fun and anticipation, like GTA3. Then what a disappointment. The same things, over and over. It just doesn’t matter how bad you are or how good you are, it is just plain annoying and makes me want to try a new game.
At least with a similar game like GTA3, you could run around the city and wreak havoc-and have stats building to show how much of a bada$$ you can become-and that’s even before you’ve done any missions. In this game, there isn’t anything out there, just one little repetitive mission after another to get to an assassination. Oh, sorry, not an assassination, but a brawl with a bunch of guards and whomever you felt like taking on.
There is nothing out there except the same old thing. Steal a horse, jump off, beat up a bunch of guards, run around a city, climb a tower, jump off the tower and get the bad-guy boss.
Hmmm… sounds familiar…
Time for change. At least I didn’t spend full price. Worth a try to play and try out and see the great graphics and watch the flicks, but after playing a bit, you’ll see, it just gets to be the same old thing all over again.
I am a huge fan of UBISOFT and their gem of a franchise titled Assassin’s Creed is no exception. I have owned/played this game on all three platforms namely Playstation 3, Xbox360, and PC. In my Opinion the PS3 version is by far the best and that is if you have configured your console correctly to your HD television.
Altair is an awesome main character to play as it really contributes to bringing the Holy Land to life and immersing you in a epic tale like no other ever told before through a video game. The Limited Edition is the way to go with an extra blueray disk with all kind’s of special features taking you behind the scenes and dragging you more into the life of an assassin. The only complaint i had was UBISOFT could of included a bigger and not so cheaply made figurine. With this aside the game is so good that i can look past this minor flaw and appreciate the graphic art and story put behind altair and the world around him. A must have game on any console!!!
I have played a lot of games in the past 20 years and this is one of the few I’ve picked up and played through the entire thing just waiting for what was coming. The anticipation of what’s going to happen keeps you playing. I kept waiting for it to flash forward to modern times and for the assassin’s skill to be unleashed there. I won’t ruin the game for you but I was a bit disappointed at the ending.
This is one of the few modern games I’ve played to the end, with most being shelved after a few weeks. This one kept coming out of the rack of games until I was finished. So, I’d say it’s well worth the $[...] bucks compared to what most games are going for, and their “value.”
If you buy one game for your system when you get it this one shows off what the PS3 can do quite well. You don’t HAVE to play this one before the second one, but it’s a good primer — plus a lot cheaper in case you decide AC is not for you.
GAMEPLAY
There was a lot of potential in this game and it’s really fun, but I can’t give it 5 stars: It’s too repetitive. Basically you climb buildings, go do mini-quests that repeat getting a bit tougher each time and then kill “Bosses” and run for your life (or do what I did:).
I’m not a hardcore gamer. So, after the first two levels, I realized a stealthy Assassin I was not. It simply required too much skill for me to lose the soldiers chasing you and hide and the stealthy way in was too tough for me, so I resorted to simply killing all the guards — I got great practice saving citizens from street thugs. And once I learned to counter blows I was pretty much unstoppable. Maybe hardcore gamers would consider the fights too easy, but they’re challenging enough that I lost a few even after I got used to the controls. But that’s what was so fun about it – you could lose but it was less frustrating when you did.
I know they probably didn’t intend me to walk into a building of 20 guards and have only me come out, but whatever (“I’ll do what I want”). Even though they penalize you for killing innocents, I basically killed anyone who got in my way — innocent or not. There’s these crazy or drunk guys that push you when you’d be trying to get close to a target in some areas. A hidden blade works wonders on them so long as you don’t worry about guards noticing, and making it too hard to kill your target.
OVERALL
The beautiful art and ability to do whatever you want kept me playing. I do have a problem with the fact that you can’t kill some targets once they make it further away from where you’re supposed to kill them. One or two guys made it out of the zone they set up, and I had to restart that part o the mission. I’m a huge fan of free running games so long as I like the topic/setting. And being an Assassin in the holy land during the Crusades is a great setting. Also, the game saves at every significant point so you don’t have to redo a bunch of things you’ve already done if you die halfway through, which is a great mechanic.
I liked the game especially because it lets us people who aren’t adept with console controllers actually have FUN with a game.
Only 4 stars because there is TONS of repetition, but what game isn’t seriously? All games have a bit of repetition, this one just has a lot more of it.
Graphics are phenominal, character is easy to control, enemy Ai is good but not ridiculously intelligent.
If your having framerate issues, i suggest you get a new ps3, game or tv because its not the game.
The boss fight kills are kind of annoying though as it turns into a slug fest, run away, find hideout instead of kill silently and escape into the night like you would think it should be.
Penalties for overkilling? why? your an assassin, kill or be killed. id like more open end feel to the game personally.
Would have given 3.5 but its closer to a 4 than a 3 imo.