Assassin's Creed

Trying to explain the big picture behind Assassin's Creed plot/storyline is hard. So I won't. You can discover it for yourself.

I WILL however, say that the plot is slightly confusing in places. Turns out, watching those un-freaking-skippable cutscenes actually helps after all.

The gameplay in Assassin's Creed features mostly *shock horror* killing. These killings can be executed in several brutal, or sometimes utterly silent ways. The combat is divided into two sections; low-profile and high-profile. Low-profile isn't COMBAT, as much as it IS silent assassinations. High-profile is barbaric, bloody fighting, with swords, throwing knives, and, occassionally, a good ol' fist fight.

Low-profile offers you the comfort of being able to (slowly) explore the entire city freely. That is, until later on in the game when the guards of Acre, Damascus and Jerusalem, become aware of your presence, due to repeated killings and open-crowded assassinations. High-profile, however, is for the gamer that prefers more hands-on, or, in this case, swords on, killing.

As the game progresse, Altair, the Assassin as whom you play, learns several skills and abilities. Some of these skills include Counter Kills, parries and regaining balance. Counter Kills can (and often will) involve brutal stabs, slices and cuts employed to execute guards (or maybe, in Masyaf, assassins) with ease.

Assassin's Creed is centred around the five major areas; most of them cities: Masyaf, the city of the Assassins, Damascus, built around a canal, Acre, the centre of the European occupation and Jerusalem, the Holy City. Each city has a distint theme; Acre has it's dark, grey walls and buildings. Damascus, with it's sun-baked mud buildings, and essentially a brown colour theme. Jerusalem is a combination of both; wood, walls and mud.

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Genre: Action/Adventure
Price: AU$90.00
Rating: M - Strong violence, Strong themes.

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