Assassin's Creed

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• The Assassin's Creed Limited Edition contains: - Collectible 3-inch Altair figure - Penny Arcade comics - Mini strategy guide
• Bonus disc including: - Winners of Assassin’s Creed short film contest - Behind-the-scenes videos - Developer diaries - Trailers - Producer interviews - Downloads and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000WMEE94
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.2 x 2.5 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,447 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Limited

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The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history. As an assassin you will master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history’s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.

Features:

• Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests
• Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through detailed and historically accurate environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds
• This game immerses you in the Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambiance, and the detail of a living world
• Find action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in sword fight duels
• Limited Edition: Game comes in a limited edition tin box along with a 3 inch figurine of the main character, Altair. Also included are a set of Penny Arcade comics, a mini-strategy guide, a few IFC short films, game trailers, and Assassin's Creed videos that included the "Making of."

Product Description

Assassin's Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change.

The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.

You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

Next-gen gameplay - The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic. Limited Edition Contents - Collectible 3-inch Altair Figure Penny Arcade Comic Mini Strategy Guide Bonus Disc - Winner's of Assassin's Creed short film contest, behind-the-scenes videos, developer diaries, trailers, producer interviews, downloads and more

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best games this Year, November 15, 2007

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A. C. Ege/Acedoh "acedoh" (Stockton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Assassin's Creed Limited Edition (Video Game)

I was a little skeptical this game would live up to the hype. Then some diminished reviews came around and I was already feeling a let down. Where could they go wrong? Was my thoughts. Well that didn't stop me from purchasing this game. After 30 minutes I was blown away. All skepticism was gone and I was in Gamer Heaven.

Let me start off from the beginning. Yes there is a plot twist and it's pretty bizarre. Just think that your watching a Michael Crichton movie and it will make sense. Playing in the Middle East several hundred years ago is a different idea. It's hard to say what you could expect with this concept.

So what makes this game amazing. Lets start off with the landscape. It's brilliant and beautiful...Really majestic. You don't understand the scope of this game until you start playing. The world is surrounded by several small villages and three large cities. The only way to travese this open terrain with a horse. Fortunately they are about as easy to find as a car in todays society.

What also sets this game apart is the ability to do what you want when you want. There is no clock on you and your not stuck going into a mission. Everything is open based. The character is amazingly fun to control you can scale tall buildings and make amazing leaps of faith. Climbing up a building that is several stories and then leaping to certain doom is breathtaking excitement. This is what games should be about.

Beyond that is a mission based game. Similiar to Grand Theft Auto in style. You can accept simple missions like pickpocketing and protecting citizens to the more main based assasin missions. You can battle soldiers if you want as you have many enemies but it's not really advised. Following the assasin missions can be complex and involve several steps that make the story very intresting. Obviously a lot of time was put into making this top notch.

For anyone who likes open based games with large environments then Assassins Creed is for you. From the majestic peaks to the clustered cities. This is trully a next gen experience. The storyline and incentive program will keep you playing for many hours. Definately a worthwhile gameplay experience. If you want something to keep you busy that doesn't involve guns go out and get Assasins Creed.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Next Target, December 11, 2007

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Michael Corona "Nemesis Legion" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Assassin's Creed Limited Edition (Video Game)

Assassins Creed - Circa 2007


GOOD:
- The game has three huge (as well as very detailed) cities (Jerusalem, Acre, and Damascus) as well as the countryside (known simply as "Kingdom") that is equally as big as any of the cities. The games size rivals that of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (even if GTA:SA is bigger Assassins Creed is lot more detailed and intractable).
- A good story mixing elements of historical fiction and a Sci-Fi.
- Really impressive graphics and first-rate animations, that look just as good as games like Bioshock and Mass Effect.
- A great sound track that mixes music of the era during the clam points of the game and more modern type of music during the chase points of the game.

BAD:
- Collecting Flags (one hundred in every city and one hundred in the countryside) has no real point and only unlocks achievements.
- Most players and reviews complain about the relative nature of the Intel missions. Most of these missions are generally the same from city to city.


IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- A Stealth game set in the year 1191 A.D. during the holy land crusades between King Richard and Sladine. You play as an Assassin of Hashshashin (who was a real life group of assassins of that time) charged with unsettling the powers that be in an attempt to bring peace to the holy land. To do this you must kill nine people who are using the crusades to control others and bring disorder to the land.
- The control is broken down into two areas of game play there is a passive action and an aggressive action to almost everything you can do in the game. For example you can lightly tap people to move out of your way while walking down crowed the street (hold the B button to do this) or shove people as you run down that same street (hold the R button and the B button to do this). This duality applies to all your actions and it becomes necessary because during the game you must be able to move freely between these two states (passive and aggressive) to run and then hide from people the out to get you as well as to sneak up on and kill your victims.
- Lot of what you will be doing is climbing and jumping from buildings this plays similar to the Prince of Persia games also made by ubisoft (the sands of time series). Although in this game the controls are more streamlined and user friendly as you can climb way more effectively as well as more realistically.
- Most of the game play itself is not so much assassinating people but gathering Intel on your targets, like ease dropping on conversations, pick pocketing people, and saving innocents from corrupt guards (who will repay you later by having others help in your endeavors) you can also scout out high areas to find hiding areas for later.
- Altair (the main character that you will play as) is an assassin and not a gladiator, while you can kill over 25 guards in a row (doing that unlocks an achievement) Altair is more like a spy or Ninja where his style is to stay hidden for a long as possible and not out right fight unless cornered. Now when cornered Altair can really destroy is enemies rather effetely with either a small combo (tap X once until you hear/see Altair's sword hit his opponents sword and quickly tap X again - this take lots of practice to get right) or counter move (tap X right before an opponent hit Altair with his sword), the over all effect is that only players who feel the most confident in their abilities will fight more then a few people at once. While most players should and will play more like a "true" assassin and not be seen as well as only fight when they must.
- After every major assassination you unlock new moves and weapons (like throwing knives and counter strike).
- While in the countryside (called "Kingdom") you get to ride horses, this aspect of game play is very reminiscent of the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time.
- The story can be very confusing to some not familiar with the politics of this time era. I recommend seeing the movie Kingdom of Heaven, this helps explain the story a bit more and give more back story to the game (note this game takes place a year or so after that movie).

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent (360/PS3/PC)
- Prince of Persia (Xbox/PS2)
- Crackdown (360)
- HitMan: Blood Money (360)

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- There is a small secret about the games story that I will not give away, although I will say the 90% of your gameplay time will be spend on the facts I have already mentioned, and the other part of the game is only really story based with no real bearing on your gameplay.
- Altair is an Arabic word that means "The Flying One.
- The assassins that Altair is a part of were a real group of assassins during that era in fact the word assassins comes from the assassins group Hashshashin as it was a word used to describe there followers. All your main targets (nine in all) are based on real people who during that time period either died mysteriously or vanished.
- This game is also on the Sony Playstation 3 as well as the PC.
- In the limited collector's edition you will find an art book, a mini Altair figuring as well as a mini strategy guide, you will also find a mini comic about one of Altair's missions (drawn from the comic artist from Penny Arcade website) as well as a bonus DVD with the videos "The Making of Assassins Creed" documentary and it all comes in a tin case.
- There is talk from Ubisoft about sequels to this game set in other time eras.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good addition to the fall lineup..., November 16, 2007

By 

Alan Perez "forceheretic" (Hanover, IN) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Assassin's Creed Limited Edition (Video Game)

My initial reaction to Assassin's Creed: it's definitely a mixed bag, but with far more good than bad. The game is incredible in and of itself: unique gameplay, a compelling story, and beautiful graphics are just a few of the most striking elements, all of which present themselved from the very beginning.

The unique gameplay is part of both the bad and the good. It's tough to get the hang of, because in some cases it seems rather counterintuitive. Because it's so different from any other game, there really is no foundation for learning the scheme, which makes for a rather sharp learning curve. More than once, I've found myself saying, "I want to do this...does that involve the head or the off hand?...and do I need to lock on first?" And by the time I've figured it all out, a Templar has run me through. But I'm getting the hang of it, and as I do, it gets more and more enjoyable. The game defintely requires patience, though; every time you get even remotely suspected, the game slows to a crawl until you've managed to become anonymous again. This is certainly no
hack and slash game, and that, too, is taking a little getting used to; even it's predecessors, the Prince of Persia games, allowed for a little button mashing. But this, too, I think I can get the hang of.

The game twists and turns from the very beginning. From the time I first heard of the game until the time I put it in my Xbox 360, whenever someone asked me what the game was about, I would always respond, "Well, I think..." I never really, truly understood what the game was about, and now, having played for just over 2 hours, not much has changed: I know what has happened and I know where I am now, but have no idea where I'm headed. And I like it that way. The story is complex enough to be engrossing, but not so bad that I'm confused (at least, not yet). And that's all I'll say about the story, both because I don't want to give away any spoilers and because I don't want to look like a fool when any guesses I may make are proven wrong!

And the graphics...in my humble opinion, there is little to complain about here. Watching Altair move through the cities and landscapes is a joy; watching him dive off a tower and seeing his shadow hurtle in tandem is bliss. The NPCs, the guards, and Altair himself are all beautifully rendered. In short, this is above and beyond how a next generation game should look. It raises the bar in many respects. While it may not be the absolute prettiest game ever (I think I may still give that title to Oblivion), I'm still more than pleased to watch it.

So in the end, was it worth the money? Yes. A hundred times yes. I'm enjoying it immensely, even if I'm still in the learning stages. I've heard great things about the ending, and I'm looking forward to it - although perhaps not as much as scaling every building I possibly can to find all the flags, which I'm sure will take me at least weeks. Definitely, do yourself a favor and check out the game ASAP.

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