It may come as a surprise, but for as popular as the Assassin’s Creed series is, I’ve never actually played any of the games until yesterday. Well I played maybe an hour of Assassin’s Creed II once, but I never sat down and got into it. Yesterday, however, I finally started at the beginning, with the first Assassin’s Creed (released in 2007). Five years have come and passed and this game has only made it into my library this week. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because five games have come out so quickly I felt overwhelmed and though I’d never catch up. And maybe there’s something a little disconcerting about having to play FOUR games just to get to Assassin’s Creed III (I don’t even know which game comes after II, Revelation or Brotherhood.. Furthermore I don’t know if either have anything to do with the story…Since they’re not numbered I’d assume I could skip them and go right to III, but who knows).
Anyway, here I am and I’ve finally played a few hours of Assassin’s Creed. So far it’s been fun, but I don’t feel like an Assassin at all. Every battle just turns into an anything but quick and silent sword fight against numerous enemies at once. I might as well just roll in with a bomb because there’s no way to be any less obvious. Maybe there is a way to actually assassinate people, but it sure doesn’t seem like it. Also the whole climbing thing feels very slow and annoying a lot of the time. When I’m trying to escape I climb like I’m in no hurry at all and often fall over and over again trying to actually get somewhere (or I’ll just bounce off of walls and end up getting stabbed in the back).
Other than that the only other thing that’s annoying me is how slow travel is in the game. Every time I have to leave the main hub it feels like I’m riding a horse for ages just to get to the next area. It’d be really nice to have some sort of fast travel system, because I’m tired of riding around over and over again. It’s not as bad once you get into a city (though again, climbing is a tad too slow) but it’s a pain to actually get there.
Otherwise I’m enjoying the game. I just don’t think it’s as amazing as everyone makes it out to be…And I have absolutely no idea what’s going on story wise…I’m just killing people I’m told to kill.
I’m hoping Assassin’s Creed II will be a slightly improved experience and then I’ll just have to figure out whether to skip straight to III or play the two games which I can only assume are side stories, first.
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There are ways to pull off stealth kills against almost every enemy, as I recall, but they require a lot of climbing and planning. Even after that, they generally end up in a massive battle, anyway. I haven’t played it in 3 or 4 years, though. I ended up trading it for Armored Core 4 once I got to the point where I had nothing left to do but the achievement-grabbing scavenger hunt stuff. I got a 40k gamerscore by doing fun things, not mindless completionist garbage.
Anyone who has played all of the Assassian’s Creed games would tell you not to play that game, skip it and go ahead and play and play Assassians Creed 2 the gulf of quality between those first 2 games is the same type of jump made from mass effect 1 to 2 or call of duty 3 to 4. the first Assassian’s Creed game was a proof of of concept and a graphical power house for its time now i haven’t played that game in a while. My opinion is skip the first one play the second one and brotherhood skip revelations, and go straight into Assassian’s Creed 3.