Assassin's Creed Revelations

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• The Final Legendary Chapter - Experience the final chapter of Ezio's epic adventure in story-driven gameplay.
• Upgraded Arsenal Of Weapons And Enhanced Abilities - New! - The new hookblade boosts free-running, bombcrafting provides endless levels of gameplay customization and Superior Eagle Senses enhance game performance.
• Award-winning Multiplayer Continues to Innovate - All new online characters, modes, and maps build upon an award-winning online multiplayer providing infinite replay value and competitive gameplay.
• Added-Value Bonus Gameplay - New! - For the first time in franchise history, experience a game within a game, featuring hours of Animus-dedicated gameplay in an Assassin?s Creed spin-off.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B004YVOCYG
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 2.9 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #14 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Action

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Review

Assassin's Creed Revelations – Two Assassins, One Destiny

When a man has won all of his battles and defeated all of his enemies; what is left for him to achieve? Ezio Auditore must leave his life behind in search of answers, in search of the truth. In Assassin's Creed® Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of the legendary mentor Altaïr, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path — one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region.

In addition to the culmination of Ezio's award-winning story, a refined and expanded online multiplayer experience returns with new and additional modes, maps, and characters, allowing you to test your slaying skills against others from around the world.

Key Game Features

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Become Deadlier Than Ever — Wield the lethal skills of a wiser, more efficient and deadlier Ezio. Swiftly eliminate your adversaries by deploying a new arsenal of weapons and abilities, such as enhanced free-running and hookblade combat. Experience new levels of gameplay customization with bomb crafting, and use heightened Eagle Sense to vanquish your enemies and the environment.

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Customize Your Attack — Ezio has mastered the use of explosives and can now combine materials from the world to create a variety of bombs to serve a multitude of functions. Choose from different categories of bombs, including; lethal, tactical and diversion.

• Need to distract a guard? Use a non-lethal Cherry Bomb to create a diversion.

• Crushed by a crowd? Use a Blood Bomb to clear the area for a quick getaway.

• Time to make the kill? Use a Splinter Bomb with a brittle casing that explodes on impact to create deadly consequences.

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Herald The Return Of A Legend — Experience the return of
Altaïr, the hero of the original Assassin's Creed, as a playable
character.

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Test Your Skills Against The Best — A critically acclaimed multiplayer experience gets even better, with all-new team modes and infinite replay value.

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Journey To Constantinople — Explore the vibrant and exotic Constantinople, the crossroads of the 16th Century Ottoman Empire and the intersection of two legends of their times, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Ezio Auditore da Firenze. This vast city provides more diverse environments than ever before encountered, enabling faster travel via zipline, aerial assaults, travel by sea and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some changes from AC:Brotherhood, but ultimately falls a bit short, December 9, 2011

By 

Bobby G (Bay Area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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

I should say I'm an Assassin's Creed fan. I fervently defended the uniqueness of the first game, Assassin's Creed, which was ultimately revealed to be a bit of a mess compared to the stellar Assassin's Creed II. When Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood hit the scene, I initially saw it as a stalling tactic instead of releasing "AC 3", with some multiplayer slapped on, but I ended up loving that one too, and the MP, while needing some execution improvements, was refreshingly unique.

When Revelations finally rolled around, I was actually excited about both learning more of the Desmond/Ezio story and also seeing a cleaner, more user-friendly multiplayer experience. I picked up a copy of the game on Black Friday for $35 and have played the game a good amount, both SP and MP, since. Here are my thoughts, starting with the singleplayer:

GRAPHICS - 8/10
Graphics are about on-par with what they were in AC:2, with some improvements in the facial movements during the cinematics. The game still runs the same engine as AC:2 and Brotherhood, so combat and climbing and crowd movement look almost identical. The new city, Constantinople, is different from the Italian cities but I think it doesn't quite show off the graphics like Rome or Florence from prior games.

GAMEPLAY - 7/10
As I mentioned, climbing, combat and moving with the crowd is mostly the same as prior games, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. There are some new movement features, such as the grappling claw and (by proxy) the zipline. Nothing to write home about. Combat and crowd have the added factor of bombs, but as some have already pointed out, they are not exactly essential to Ezio's arsenal. 1-2 recipes are all that you'll need for most of the game. It can be interesting to use some of the other bomb types in various scenarios but again, in terms of combat experience, they aren't that fascinating.

The new gameplay additions come in the form of a tower-defense minigame as well as contracting recruited assassins and remotely controlling territory (I believe it's called the "Mediterranean Defense" minigame). These, honestly, I could do without. I liked the mission-style usage in the past game as a way to level up your recruits and score a bit of extra cash while you collected flags/chests and whatnot, but the new minigames just put too much pressure on you to keep up with what's going on. Tower defense is pretty lame; honestly I'd rather just go down on the ground and melee combat my way through attackers. Overall, I can appreciate UbiSoft wanting to expand their game but I would have done without the new minigames.

STORY - 8/10
I don't want to give anything away. You'll have needed to play Brotherhood to really understand what is going on. The actual pacing of the story depends on your playstyle, but I myself found it adequate and in the same overall tone and style of the previous 2 games.

SOUND - 9/10
Sound quality stays at the usual levels of excellence from the prior games. In my experience the voice actors do a good job all around, and the game's sound effects are solid too.

REPLAYABILITY (SP) - 5/10
A low score here shouldn't be unexpected. Replayability from the single player perspective is mostly the same as it was with the prior games. You're free to roam the city, cause chaos, do the minigames and side missions as you please once the campaign is finished. Is it as fun? In my opinion, not really. I'd rather move on to another game, but that's just me; to each his own.

MULTIPLAYER - 9/10
Here's where the game moves from a 3/5 star to a 4/5 star. The multiplayer is a great experience. Unless you've played Brotherhood, I guarantee you will not have tried something like this before. The multiplayer is completely unique and mostly involves trying to trick other players. Reflexes and coordination is almost secondary to how strategy and deception in this multiplayer; can you make other players think you are just an NPC (a computer controlled character), while figuring out which of the characters walking around on your screen is your player target? That's the gist of multiplayer and, while I can understand it's not for everyone, I find it to be a blast.

The good news here is the MP is MUCH more streamlined than it was in Brotherhood. There is an XP system much like most MP games these days (MW3, BF3) allowing you to level up and spend points unlocking and upgrading abilities to suit your playstyle. I'll admit there's a bit of a learning and leveling curve; high level players will have significant ability advantages over starting players, but the game can still be a lot of fun.

New MP game modes like Deathmatch, Assassination, and Corruption add even more depth to the multiplayer experience. I bought this game mostly for the multiplayer. If it sounds like it's something you're into, I'd heartily recommend giving it a shot.

OVERALL - 7.5/10 (4 stars)
As I mentioned I bought this game for $35. November and October had heavy hitters in the video game world, and this game not only warranted a buy in my mind but the multiplayer has it as the #2 or #3 game that I'm playing now (behind Battlefield 3 and Skyrim depending on my mood). The fact that it can pull some of my interest and playtime given the other games out there should say something about Revelations.

However, I realize that the appeal of this game to me, personally, may not be something shared by all gamers. Would I pay $60 for this game? No. I would, myself, be happy to have paid $45, maybe even $50. For someone unsure about this game, I would wait until a $40 price point. For fans of Brotherhood, particularly of the multiplayer, however, you are probably like me and would be content with a $45 price tag.

I hope my review was helpful. Feel free to ask me any followup questions in the comments section. Thanks for reading!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Addition to the AC series, December 14, 2011

By 

Nadine "Luvs..." (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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

ACR finalizes Ezio Auditore's last journey in the AC Trilogy.

Individual reviews are very mixed. My opinion is that it's awesome and what weaknesses there are (features that I'm not crazy about) aren't enough to spoil my love of this game.
Some of the issues people have can just be ignored by not using things or altering what you do in the game to counter-balance it.

There are 2 aspects to this game for newbies to AC - on the one hand it's the end of a trilogy and since AC is story intensive, it's important to get the backstory to understand what's going on, so I'd recommend picking up the previous 2 games if interested.

At the same time, the Missions and gameplay are not as difficult as previous versions making it a nice intro to new AC gamers - less of a learning curve.

NEW ADDITIONS:
The HOOKBLADE for faster climbing, hook and run maneuvers and zooming down ziplines (fun but there are limited ziplines to use & I found myself unable to use some of them during gameplay due to being at the wrong end of them),

BOMBS are alot of fun and offer new applications for strategy during missions. They seem a little intimidating at first, but there are 4 side missions with a Bomb expert to get familiar with them and a mission tutorial on how to make them. It's not hard.

RECRUITING SYSTEM/MASTER ASSASSINS/DENS
This was a great revamp of the Assassin Recruit system. You now have several Assassin Dens and appoint a Master Assassin over each one.
You also get 2 separate missions with each one which are really good.

Also, Leveling up the Recruits is now turned into a relevant game on its own, so it isn't just random mission to gain them XP. It makes it more enjoyable.

STALKERS were a nice addition. They randomly surprise you from behind and try to kill and steal from you.

Yes, Ezio is 51 yrs old in this chapter but he isn't slowed down any, he almost moves faster than previous games thanks to the Hookblade addition.

What I liked most in this game were the excellent missions. They were less restrictive (better 'sync' objectives & less cumbersome) and they weren't long and tedious. Any longer missions were split into 2 parts.
However, there are a couple very difficult challenges, so it's not a complete cakewalk either.
Alot does depend on your skill level.

Some CONS:

The story is good but could have beem amped up to be more exciting, dramatic and intense even though there are some exciting parts in the later missions.

There are less main and side missions in ACR than previous games so it is shorter than others.

The majority of players didn't favor a new feature, DEN DEFENSE - a mini game where Templars try to take back your Den and you organize Assassins to defeat them.
It's difficult, confusing and there's a learning curve to it.

However at the same time, they've made it somewhat avoidable so you can optionally work to keep from having to play it.

Level your Master Assassins up to Lvl. 15 which will "lock" the den so that Templars can't contest it.

Or keep your "notoriety" (now called Templar Awareness) low by taking out Officials that appear when it raises and/or bribing nearby Heralds.
High Awareness causes the den attacks.

The last Con to add is that there were bugs and glitches for some people and 1 Patch was just released to address that. I had no problems with my game.

Some missions were cinematic and had an "Indiana Jones" feel to them with high action. That was fun.
Some humor and romance sprinkled in with a now more mature Ezio which was done very well and was refreshing.

It made for a very nice, solid, enjoyable game where I didn't end up wanting to whip my controller into the tv screen.
Soundtrack is great (grows on you as you play), some great Characters, Graphics are well done (though less vibrant in color than ACB) and the City was interesting (there is also Cappadocia which you travel to for some new scenery).

Overall it's a very good game that I will replay often just for the fun of the missions.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good game, but more like a AC Brotherhood DLC, January 26, 2012

By 

S. Wilson - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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

I am a huge fan of the AC series having been onbord since day one, but I am also not so blinded by series fanboy status to be willing to call a spade a spade. Put simply, this game does not really do a great deal to move the series forward in storyline, graphics or (most importantly) game play. If anything, this was almost a step backward with many of the fav activities from AC Brotherhood (like combat from horseback) noticeably absent in the world of Constanople.

I feel like the development team worked up some new storyline material, redesigned some mapping and missions coding, slapped a cover on it with a 60 dollar pricetag and called it a new game. It really does have the feel of DLC material as opposed to a new game. Ask anybody who has played it. I almost feel cheated.

Cmon Ubi Soft. You can certianly do better than this for your loyal fans!

I do know one thing for certian. After the next installment comes out (and based upon the ending of this game, it would seem as though that is inevitable) I will patiently wait until some of my fellow amazon folks play the game and take the plunge before I decide to make my purchase.

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