Assassin's Creed Review

I've been playing this game for awhile, and i thought i shud blog about it. =)



Pros:
-The fighting styles; the finishing moves are simply awesome, the way you can dodge any attacks and quickly move to attacking another enemy.
-Range of weapons; the range of weapons is quite interesting, i had fun with the hidden blade, how you can stab someone and the guards wouldn't notice until they had fallen to the ground. The sword and short swords are fun to play around with, the throwing daggers make you feel like a ninja and allows you to pick off archers in the rooftops.
-Free running; one of my favourite bits of the game, how you can leap from place to place and climb off random sections of the wall. This is one of the best parts of the game, scaling from rooftops, taking the 'leap of faith'.
-Environment; the environment around is very realistic, this includes how you can jump through stalls to escape the guards, pushing the citizens aside to make your escape, or simply just vandalising the area by breaking the wooden stands.
-Assasinations; the cutscene are cool to watch as you build up anger of what the target has done, and then to the killing, it justs feels good to kill those people.
-Pricing; unlike a few ps3 games, its actually worth it to get this, it may not be a gta4 or halo3, but hey, i can understand why they bought this a few months back.

Cons:
-Water; the water i find extremely annoying, cant the main character swim for god sakes? If you fall in once you die, i actually spent quite awhile trying to get to a view point because of this 'water of death' effect.
-Repetitive gameplay; you practically do the same thing each time if you didnt notice, listen to a conversation, pickpocketing and then to the assassinations.
-Glitches; It may have happened to some people but sometimes your character just freezes, you cant even do anything, just stuck there. This gets really annoying when you just escaped from an assassination and you almost reached the safe point, but you freeze.
-Beggars, drunkards and mentally challenged people; this might not be a problem to people but those guys get really annoying, when your sneaking to pickpocket someone, they just come out and whack you or beg for money, leading to you failing your
mission.



Ratings:

Gameplay: 9.5/10
Graphics: 9/10
Story: 7/10
Sound: 8/10
Lasting Appeal: 7/10 (You wouldn't come back just to play it for the second time)