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 | Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition |
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Assassin's Creed PCProduct Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1606 in Video Games
- Brand: UBI Soft
- Released on: 2008-04-08
- ESRB Rating: Mature
- Platform: Windows
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .44 pounds
Features
- Experience exclusive PC content
- Be an Assassin! Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
- Realistic and responsive environments - Every action has its consequences. Crowds react to your moves, and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
- Dedicated historical accuracy, from the models of the in-game cities to the weaponry to the portrayal of actual political figures who died or disappeared in the year 1191.
- Experience heavy action-blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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:
- Four PC-exclusive investigation missions make the game an even better experience than its console predecessors, including the Rooftop Race Challenge, a race to a specified location and the Archer Stealth Assassination Challenge, where the player must assassinate all archers in a certain zone to help out fellow Assassins.
- 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
Customer Reviews
TIPPING THE SCALES OF POWER WITH YOUR KNIFE
This is on of the most
anticipated games to be ported to PCs. For this, the Director's Cut
edition was produced, adding some content over the console versions
(mostly rooftop action missions), and care was taken to make the gamepad
to keyboard/mouse-transition as seamless as possible. For the most part
it was successful.
This is a TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFULLY GAME. The
first thing that grabs you is how REAL the city environments feel. The
graphics are just OUT OF THIS WORLD! You will need a very good PC to
enjoy their full potential (minimum requirements provided below), but
real skies, dynamic shadows, facial expressions and realistically
flowing robes are only beginning to describe it! Run on a roof and the
other citizens will gather around and comment on your crazy behavior!
Throw someone on a vendor's cart and he will come after you complaining
about his ruined produce! And the city is alive well beyond your
character. If only BIOWARE could take some lessons for its next BALDUR's
GATE...
Adding to this is the wonderful sound! From the crowd
murmurs and the NTCs cries for help, to the whistling of the wind and
the well-chosen background music, a good sound-card and speakers set is
recommended to truly enjoy this game. If you have a 5.1 speaker system
(I do not) I can imagine the experience to become even more immersing.
As
to the gameplay, you control Altaïr ibn La-Ahad ("The Flying One, Son
of None"). He is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood that sides, well,
with both...sides, during the 3rd Crusade. In a story twist, he is also
your ancestor, the game being your/his flashback memories. This is a
twist I could do without, but I would guess it lays groundwork for the
sequels.
The Third person perspective works beautifully and will
never loose your interest. Most missions require sneaking and murdering
in the shadows. Others will have you eavesdropping for passwords or
pickpocketing documents to gain access into target buildings. Some will
have you sharpen those sword skills. Still, the game does not avoid its
share of stupid "keep this...suicidal character from getting killed"
missions. Keep in mind though that ASSASSIN's CREED is rather a
strategically thinking action TPS, not a hack&slash fast-paced one.
Controlling
your character with a keyboard/mouse takes a lot of getting used to as
you have to manage running, climbing, fighting as well as modifying your
actions from low to high visibility. The keys are remapable but their
complexity will never let you forget you are playing a game. Now for
some bad news.
These are the official MINIMUM Requirements:
*
Pentium D 2.6GHz (YES, Dual Core!) (or AMD equivalent)
* 1GB RAM
(WinXP) or 2GB (WinVISTA) (3GB RECOMMENDED!)
* nVidia 6800 (or Shader
Model 3.0 compliant or ATI equivalent)
* Dual-Layer DVD-ROM (or
BluRay disc)
* 12GB HDD Space (although my install folder was no
larger than 7GB)
As one can see, this is worse than CRYSIS! What I
cannot get is how on earth ASSASSIN works on only 512MB of RAM of the
XBox, yet it is recommended to have...3GB of RAM on a PC! Sure, the
extra content is nice but who did the porting, unpaid interns? Has ANY
PC optimization been attempted at all?
Keep also in mind that (as
with CRYSIS) in order to fully enjoy the game, barely meeting the
minimum requirements means you will barely experience the game. I refuse
to deal with WinVISTA so, obviously, this review pertains to DirectX-9.
The game is also DirectX-10 compatible, something I cannot comment on
though. And now for some good news.
UBISOFT has been recently hit
with a $5million class-action suit for hardware (OK, "allegedly")
damaged by StarForce bundled with its games. Since, they have announced
to be abandoning its StarForce partnership - so let's all rejoice:
unlike other UBISOFT games, ASSASSIN's CREED does NOT sport StarForce!
Instead, a much milder SafeDisc is used.
It is a pity it took
litigation to finally listen to their own customers (suing StarForce
would make much more sense, but try finding them in Russia!), but let's
count our blessings.
So, overall, this is a well made and
beautiful, immersing (although quite short) game that needed more work
in PC optimization (where it looses 1 star Overall) and character
control (where it looses 1 star for Fun).
As Altair himself would
have put it: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
Well, not
everything - and certainly NOT StarForce.
TIPPING THE SCALES OF POWER WITH YOUR KNIFE
This is on of the most
anticipated games to be ported to PCs. For this, the Director's Cut
edition was produced, adding some content over the console versions
(mostly rooftop action missions), and care was taken to make the gamepad
to keyboard/mouse-transition as seamless as possible. For the most part
it was successful.
This is a TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFULLY GAME. The
first thing that grabs you is how REAL the city environments feel. The
graphics are just OUT OF THIS WORLD! You will need a very good PC to
enjoy their full potential (minimum requirements provided below), but
real skies, dynamic shadows, facial expressions and realistically
flowing robes are only beginning to describe it! Run on a roof and the
other citizens will gather around and comment on your crazy behavior!
Throw someone on a vendor's cart and he will come after you complaining
about his ruined produce! And the city is alive well beyond your
character. If only BIOWARE could take some lessons for its next BALDUR's
GATE...
Adding to this is the wonderful sound! From the crowd
murmurs and the NTCs cries for help, to the whistling of the wind and
the well-chosen background music, a good sound-card and speakers set is
recommended to truly enjoy this game. If you have a 5.1 speaker system
(I do not) I can imagine the experience to become even more immersing.
As
to the gameplay, you control Altaïr ibn La-Ahad ("The Flying One, Son
of None"). He is a member of the Assassin Brotherhood that sides, well,
with both...sides, during the 3rd Crusade. In a story twist, he is also
your ancestor, the game being your/his flashback memories. This is a
twist I could do without, but I would guess it lays groundwork for the
sequels.
The Third person perspective works beautifully and will
never loose your interest. Most missions require sneaking and murdering
in the shadows. Others will have you eavesdropping for passwords or
pickpocketing documents to gain access into target buildings. Some will
have you sharpen those sword skills. Still, the game does not avoid its
share of stupid "keep this...suicidal character from getting killed"
missions. Keep in mind though that ASSASSIN's CREED is rather a
strategically thinking action TPS, not a hack&slash fast-paced one.
Controlling
your character with a keyboard/mouse takes a lot of getting used to as
you have to manage running, climbing, fighting as well as modifying your
actions from low to high visibility. The keys are remapable but their
complexity will never let you forget you are playing a game. Now for
some bad news.
These are the official MINIMUM Requirements:
*
Pentium D 2.6GHz (YES, Dual Core!) (or AMD equivalent)
* 1GB RAM
(WinXP) or 2GB (WinVISTA) (3GB RECOMMENDED!)
* nVidia 6800 (or Shader
Model 3.0 compliant or ATI equivalent)
* Dual-Layer DVD-ROM (or
BluRay disc)
* 12GB HDD Space (although my install folder was no
larger than 7GB)
As one can see, this is worse than CRYSIS! What I
cannot get is how on earth ASSASSIN works on only 512MB of RAM of the
XBox, yet it is recommended to have...3GB of RAM on a PC! Sure, the
extra content is nice but who did the porting, unpaid interns? Has ANY
PC optimization been attempted at all?
Keep also in mind that (as
with CRYSIS) in order to fully enjoy the game, barely meeting the
minimum requirements means you will barely experience the game. I refuse
to deal with WinVISTA so, obviously, this review pertains to DirectX-9.
The game is also DirectX-10 compatible, something I cannot comment on
though. And now for some good news.
UBISOFT has been recently hit
with a $5million class-action suit for hardware (OK, "allegedly")
damaged by StarForce bundled with its games. Since, they have announced
to be abandoning its StarForce partnership - so let's all rejoice:
unlike other UBISOFT games, ASSASSIN's CREED does NOT sport StarForce!
Instead, a much milder SafeDisc is used.
It is a pity it took
litigation to finally listen to their own customers (suing StarForce
would make much more sense, but try finding them in Russia!), but let's
count our blessings.
So, overall, this is a well made and
beautiful, immersing (although quite short) game that needed more work
in PC optimization (where it looses 1 star Overall) and character
control (where it looses 1 star for Fun).
As Altair himself would
have put it: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
Well, not
everything - and certainly NOT StarForce.
PC version is locked in at a widescreen ratio but
still entertaining game... for a while.
Just a warning... if you havea standard non-widescreen monitor, the pc version of Assassin's Creed
is locked in at a widescreen ratio. There is no option for full screen
either. Which means that it will play on a standard monitor but the
black bars on top and bottom are huge! They take up half the screen.
This might be something to consider before purchasing this game if you
have a standard full screen size monitor. It doesn't matter which
resolution you choose, the black bars will be huge on a regular 4:3
monitor. I chose 1024 x 768, 1280 x 960, and 1280 x 1024: all the same:
huge black bars.
The game itself is still very entertaining but
the controls on the pc take some getting used to. In fact, you can
definitely tell this game was meant to be played on the console not the
pc. Once you get used to the pc controls, the game become much more
enjoyable.
The graphics are incredibly good although it seemed
like the further I got in the game, the more faded the graphics looked
in places on the pc version. Also, I really, really like the amount of
freedom you have in Assassin's Creed. You can choose however you want to
accomplish each objective and whatever order you want. The game is
pretty open that way. You can explore the city for hours if you want
before doing the objectives too.
Because of the inability to play in full screen and the awkward controls on the pc, I'd rather play this particular game on the PS3 or xbox 360. Even on the console, there is still a problem with the game play. It gets pretty redundant after a while. How many times can you protect a citizen, pick pocket, etc.? After about the 4th or 5th assassination, you might start to get a little bored with this game. There are 9 assassinations you must make and I really started to lose interest after the 4th or 5th one. It gets to be the same thing over and over again.
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