Hop into the body of a deadly assassin (Assassin's Creed (PS3))

Member Name: agewills

Product:	Assassin's Creed (PS3)
Date:	05/11/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great graphics, immersive game play, reasonable story

Disadvantages: a little repetitive

The story-line is odd. You are in the present/future and are being "experiemented" on. Scientists believe that the memory of ancestors might be locked into our genes and are especially interested in some particular ancestoral memories, for some reason or other. So they stick you in a machine and make you "regress" (so to speak). You then relive the events of the past, as your ancestor. The assassin, Altair (see pic above).

The game is definitely beautiful but the first thing that struck me, was the fact that you are forced to watch or listen to people who feel the need to talk to you. Able to move but not leave. You are stuck listening to their blabberings and cannot skip to get into the game. The training is also unnecessaririly long and tedious and cant be skipped.
However. Its quite fun and much like the game Hitman but set in the past. In other words, you have to stealth your way about the place, blending in and killing specific targets while avoiding being detected.

There's a suspicion meter, whereby you can tell if guards are aware of you and whether you can shake them off. If you manage to alert a guard and they chase you to fight, its best to allude them. If you can break their line of sight, you can then lose them by hiding in bales of hay or on a bench between two people or other crazy places. Its a nice touch.
You can pick-pocket, eavesdrop and other stuff too.

There's no map as such. You have to make your own by climbing to the top of tall towers and looking all around. This makes a visual/mental map of the area. Which is quite cool. You can then jump off the tower with a "leap of faith", which involves falling through the air into a bale of hay.

Summary: A worthy game for a look. Especially at the current price.