Assassin's Creed: Assassin's Creed: A Work of Art
THATguy12
100% score
This game had an incredible amount of hype surrounding it, especially for a non-sequel game, and let me make it very clear: it fully exceeded that hype. The game is simply gorgeous, and the main character Altair is one of the smoothest, most badass game characters to come around in quite a bit. The story is you are Desmond, a man in the present, who has been brought to a remote location isolated from society. There is a man there who states that DNA is a code that contains the memories of all your ancestors, since they want access to knowledge that one of your ancestors (Altair) possessed. The problem is the memory they want is locked, so you must access all memories up to that point, ie play as Altair to progress to that point in the game. The main story is you must kill 9 men who you are told by your master are wicked. Using a variety of methods, you must determine where they will be, and how you are going to kill them. Many reviews claim that this game is fun, but after the 4th or 5th guy, yet I tend to disagree. The complexity of the investigations you must conduct, the guards awareness of an assassin, and increased AI tended to keep this fresh for me. The scenery in this game is simply gorgeous, from Altair's flowing white robe (which remarkably never gets blood-stained), to the remarkable detail of the landscape is some of the finest graphics in any game. The violence in the game is not over the top, but it is present, seeing as there is minimal blood, but you do shank people directly through their face, so it sort of evens out. The control scheme has a bit of a learning curve, but was simple enough to pick up, and the game is easy enough to master. The only real complaint with this game is that the ending makes no sense whatsoever. Believe me, when I read this in comment in GamePro before purchasing the game, I said to myself "Well I'll just make sure to pay careful attention so it doesn't slip by me." Yet I was wrong, no degree of paying attention or understanding of the game's plot will allow the ending to make sense, but since a sequel is planned hopefully it gets cleared up. The main points are that this game has a lot of solid gameplay, new, innovative game mechanics, and is simply visually stunning. This is a fine game to add to the collection, but doesn't have a gigantic replay value, so enjoy it the first time through, because it's quite memorable.
