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Assassin's Creed could have been so much more: given better enemy AI, more variation in the missions and a more coherent storyline, this could have been a game that lived up to the hype. Unfortunately, what we have is a game with amazing graphics and not much else.

The gameplay on its own isn’t really that bad, but it’s far from the hyped up genre defining spectacular we were all lead to expect. The brutal reality is that because the game tries to be a jack of all trades it ends up as a master of none.

There are better stealth games out there and better platformers and better third-person shooters too. For plot, there are more convincing science fiction games and more interesting historical games.

How exactly the game managed to build so much hype on just a handful of screenshots and a trailer or two, I’m not sure. It feels a bit like a developers conceit, and the game has been sold on the one thing it lacks: innovation and originality. The game ends up as entirely average.

Let's hope Ubisoft can fix things in time for Assassin's Creed 2, a game which is surely on its way given the phenomenal and somewhat baffling success of the first game.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...ssin_s_creed/1

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