| Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition (PC) | 
| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 63
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210263544
ASIN: B000NG1KAA
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - SAMEDAY DESPATCH - Insured Delivery and 12 months Warranty
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It's easy to see why there was so much fighting amongst the console manufacturers to try and make this game a format exclusive. Where early launch titles may have disappointed this game not only looks like a next generation game but it plays like it too. Taken at face value the story casts you as an Arabic fighter in 1191, out to assassinate the nine Western leaders of the Third Crusade. There is more to the story than that though making it more than simple historical adventure it first seems.Since it's developed by many of the same team behind Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, it's no surprise to find the game using many of the same ideas. With the bold claim that you can climb on or over anything in the game world that sticks out more than two inches, this allows incredible freedom of movement, with a style of acrobatics heavily influenced by Parkour/free running. The game also innovates in terms of combat, with each of the face buttons controlling a different area of the body, rather like a marionette. As such one button controls the feet, one your open hand, one your weapon hand and the other your head. As an assassin stealth plays an important role in the game too, but here it's often a case of hiding in plain sight as you mill around inside large crowds of people. Everyone will react to you realistically though, so if you go around pushing people out of the way, or even killing them, the crowd will react and report you. With stunning graphics and genuinely innovative gameplay this is destined to be one of the most important releases of the year.
HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 the best and worst May 10, 2008
Ronan Roscoe (Oxon, UK)
Once upon a time a crack team of developers spent 50 years researching in the middle east before perfecting a believable world with cool animation, sound and the best level design ever.
Suddenly the production manager realised he hadn't bothered to commision a story!?! The game was due for release in one week! How had that been forgotten when 6 generations of families had died slaving on the graphic stuff?! Quickly he scribbled some psuedo Dan Brown conspiracy rubbish on the back of a napkin and thought of 9 unimaginative missions to send the protagonist on, hoping no one would notice cos the art was so slick...
 Great Game - Lousy Disk May 9, 2008
Tony Malone (London)
The game was fantastic and I spent hours working through the levels - pretty easy, but it feels so unique and engaging you don't care.
And then it broke...the disk would not load and I kept getting an error message - having researched, quite a lot of people seem to have had problems with the disk. Most of the blame has been laid at Ubisoft's feet and it seems to go deeper than compatability issues with people's computers.
Play it, enjoy it, but make sure it works!!
Yawn.... May 9, 2008
R. Rietz (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ok. Lets get straight to the point.
The good: lovely graphics (you will need a high end pc though).
The bad:
1) Long long cutscenes that CANNOT be skipped. I dont want to sit through 10 minutes of cutscenes every 5 minutes. I dont really care too much about the story line etc, I just want to kill people (sad but true) after all this game is called assassins creed, not assassins long boring and largely uneccessary cut scenes creed. The makers didnt even allow us to use the all important ESC key to get out of them.
2) the awful control system. Ive never played a more counter-intuitive system in my life. You'll end up having to play finger-twister just to walk or run and jump.
3) the amount of time it takes you to exit the game. It literally takes 3 separate confirmations and a re-log in to just quit the game (takes about 2 minutes all in). What the hell is going on? You ever heard the old tried and trusted 'do you wish to quit' 'yes' technique?
In summary, the graphics are nice on a top end machine running dx10 and vista. However, gameplay is mono-directional (go here, do that, come back) and the cut-scenes and little annoyances really drag it down.
 Incredible! May 3, 2008
Mr. J. Ward (Didsbury, England)
I have been waiting for this game since november, but when it arrived it did not dissapoint! - the graphics are incredible(the best i have ever seen) but don't expect to run it if you have a 'normal' computer because this game struggles to run on a 512 graphics card and 2gb of ram - however i have a 1gb card and 2gb of ram (running at 1066mhz) and i have experianced no problems with it at all even when running it on full graphics.
the gameplay is excellent and there is plenty to do - for me anyway!; altair's animation is stunning and so is the rest of the surroundings. the game is fun once one get's into it - though don't expect a fast paced game, because it is not! it is more about planning what you are going to do next etc. This game really IS worth getting . . .but only if you have a very fast PC.
Excellent game graphically and depth of play May 2, 2008
Mr. Kirk A. Jewell
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All round well designed game. Thoroughly injoying all aspects. Had no problem with control, graphics set to high quality and although I imagine with time the interest in the gameplay will dwindle its worth the money compared to a lot of games that I have played recently.
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