Uzghul’s view on the gaming world

You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me? God I love that movie!

This quote actually explains how I felt about Assasin’s Creed. I bought it because everyone told me I should, and after 30 minutes I got bored with the game and put it aside. I’m an action guy, and this game just lacked action. 48 euro’s down the drain. Or not? When I went on holiday (no internet there) I started playing it again and continued where I stopped. After getting used to the controls (and visiting my first city) things finally got interesting. Running on the roofs, pickpocketing people, saving lady citizens in distress, what more could you want. Insane graphics? Check. A cool main character? Check. Some hot bimbo that likes you? Check. And the checklist continues with great stuff.

Nothing is as nice as going on top of a high tower and seeing the world beneath you, only to take a leap of faith and jump down the entire tower into the hay. But how did you get there? The story puts you in the place of a regular guy in the future whose DNA contains information that a certain organisation, who is holding you hostage, needs. By putting yourself into a machine, you can replay the life of your great great great …. grandfather, an assassin. I’m not going to explain it further, it’s kind of interesting to discover it yourself.

Nice graphics, nice story, nice characters, nice moves, weird controls that you somehow get used to after a while and are actually pretty nice, isn’t there anything bad? Yes there is. First of all after a while the missions get quite repetetive. Gather enough intel about the target you need to kill, kill it, next. Your mission is to kill nice high placed figures, and most of them are rather easy to kill. The last one though has an insane difficulty factor compared to the other ones.

So you killed the last boss, do some other stuff after that in the life of your great great…grandfather (can’t say what as it is the end of the story). Then the game shifts back to the future, and as you are taken hostage by the organisation that is inspecting your dna, you expect that FINALLY you can use all the skills you learned during your trips in the past to kick ass in the future and escape the organisation. Nope. The game just stops with a major cliffhanger and I guess I have to wait till Assassin’s Creed II to know how it will continue. So yep, great game, with a major cold shower at the end. I will buy part II, but as they make me wait till II releases, I’ll just wait a bit more until it goes into Best Buy. I bought a game, not a soap.