Assassins Creed

The long awaited critically acclaimed stealth action, "Game of the Year"  finally hits shelves!

Only problem is Gamestop's automated notification process, which was suppose to call me and let me know that the game I reserved six months ago finally came in, never notified me. Anyway, I ran to Gamestop regardless and bought the last copy, popped it in... AAANNNDDDD ... was absolutely satisfied. So far it seems you are a modern day (maybe even more in the future) guy who is being performed on by these mad scientists who force you to stay stationary in the gurnee you initially awoke from, if you don't then they offered a mandatory induced coma followed by death. You obviously decide to lay back down. Anyway these scientist want something from you that you can barely fathom or believe but the future's technology is incredibley advanced. Apparently you carry memories passed down by your ancestors who were part of the Assassin's Guild and the scientist's are craving these visions' and information.  A neat face plate extractor for memories prompts you and it's pretty neat actually because you can turn your head and the plate is actually interactive which is cool. This is a way to view your "memories" which probably serves as a "Choose your Mission" type of HUD. Anyway they basically tell you that they can't grab a certain memory because your mind completely ignores any type of interaction with it and your main goal is to stimulate it for the scientists (it's obviously towards the end of the spectrum (one of the last missions)) so they start you off at the first memory and it's more a less a story starter/tutorial. I assume you are then induced into a coma and thats how you enter these memories and play as Altiar. So far the game acts great and I can tell once I get the controls down I'll have a blast.

Problems: Only thing so far is accidently running into walls with nothing to interact with, you produce a half-assed jump and hover for a bit then come back down which may be time consuming when you're making that mad dash away from guards.

Update on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 9:51AM by Shane

Where is Francis when I need him!? He would've loved this shit so much!

 Only thing that annoys me about this game is overuse/repetitiveness of dialog when saving a civilian and maybe seeing the same faces WHICH is understandable with a game that offers "group life" BUT same faces/characters in the cut scenes? Come on now, AT LEAST not the cut scenes!