Learn the Art of Kill in Assassin's Creed

Game: Assassin's Creed

Platform: PS3

Publisher: Ubisoft

Assassin's Creed, hm, what a lovely name. I just bought this game Friday and automatically fell in love with it. Be apart of a brotherhood that believes in killing ones that are evil and all traitors.

The main action of Assassin's Creed takes place during the Crusades, and in various cities in and around Israel. The story begins as you take control of an assassin called Altair. As Altair you must move around a blurred memory. You then wake up on a table called an animus where doctors are pulling memories from you. According to those doctors, they tell you that you are an assassin and you hold memories that they need. You then are encouraged to lay down on the animus and try to attempt to enter the memory strands by the locked ones once you do then the game really starts.

Playing as Altair is a blast. You can push, tackle, kick, jump, punch, and kill anybody that is around but a horde of guards will come running towards you. Also, you can scale the rooftops and dive off the top of high buildings. The most difficult part is when you get discovered to be an assassin; you have to sprint away or stand to fight which attracts more guards. The only way to stop the pursuit is to mysteriously 'vanish.' As you perform crazy stunts such as the wall climb and high dives, townsfolk will look at and murmur. Outside of cities you can ride horses and climb high towers. I suggest that you run up to a stranger and punch them, you will never experience anything close to the real thing.

The graphics are just breathtaking. Throughout many points in the game you can view the town you are in from high peaks in first person. The view point will most likely bring a tear to your eye it is so beautiful. Altair's costume is similar to Ansem's from Kingdom Hearts and Altair has the voice of Tom Cruise. During conversations you can press any button to change to the view point of the person speaking. This enhances long distance conversations and ones that you can't rotate the camera.

The most notable thing about Assassin's Creed is the battle system. What can I say? The battle is easy to enter and the weapons are a delight to use. Altair can use his fists, swords, and knives to fight guards. By pressing L1 you can target on to any enemy or guard. By pressing and holding R1 you can block attacks. I did say that the battle was great but it is also simple to, not much to say.

Assassin's Creed delivers an first hand combat experience that you will not experience in any other game. From its mysterious story to its spectacular game play, Assassin's Creed is a thrill to play.

This game deserves a bigger scale, 9/10. Although I didn't discuss its flaws, you might just turn off the game at first sight of prologue, but I don't suggest it.