Chaosplay

Let me first get to the point, don’t waste your money on Assassin’s Creed. Rent it and finish it in one weekend. Or don’t even bother playing it.

I bought PS3 mainly because I just wanted to play this game. Unfortunately, it was most boring game ever. The basic gameplay is you get a mission to assassinate someone, you try to find out about your target by pickpocketing, eavesdropping, interrogating or assassinating more people for an informer. The problem is all these tasks require no brain and these tasks are extremely repetitive. Maybe pickpocketing someone was exciting first 10 times. Interrogation feels like just regular fighting. I guess assassinating for an informer is slightly fun because sometimes they have time limit and you have to plan your route.

Okay when we do each of these tasks we get some clues about our target. The problem is most of these clues are minor details of story which were not interesting. And these clues were hardly any useful during assisnation. I didn’t care to read any of these clue and still had no problem in killing my targets. I wish they had maybe presented these clues in the form of CG videos.

Next we have fighting. Since this is suppose to be stealth game, I wasn’t expecting very sophisticated fighting system. So the fighting system is very basic. But there are way too many fights. You fight Templars, you fight to save citizen, at the end of game you are forced into boring fights and you fight if your cover is blown. Luckily at the beginning of game you can escape most fights. However, fight do look cool though.

Then we got other side mission, you have to climb tallest buildings in the area, it gets boring after a while. There were some building/towers which were slightly challenging but most were way to easy. You hardly get any sense of accomplishment once you reach the top.

Then we got the story. Maybe if the story was great it would have been awesome to play this game but its not. Basically the story is Altair receive missions from his master to kill some bad dudes, he goes and kills one by one. Supposedly, these bad guys are connected but even after half of them are dead, these bad guys still don’t take any caution or make game any interesting.
Then Altair finds out that his master is actually the bad guy, so he kills him. Thats it!
(BTW I knew from the first mission the Master would be the bad guy but I keep trying to convince myself that this game cannot be that predictable, unfortunately, it was very predictable.)

Oh yeah they got this whole Sci-Fi meet davinci code thing going on in the present but I have no idea what it was and i don’t care. To find out the story in the present you have to read some e-mails… These are not 2 lines e-mails… these e-mail are several paragraphs, I am not going to read a story on my TV. I like reading but they got books for reading. so from what i understand by reading online forums is that these e-mails and the markings at the end are to hype you up for next release.

And lastly, The ending is extremely unsatisfying. As soon as Altair kills his master, the game goes back to future. If you want to find out what happened to Altair after the fight you have to wait for credits to roll then go back to Mission 7 and Read whatever it said there. They could not even have any audio or video at the end.

Hopefully, uncharted would be better.