Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Storyline: 9.5/10
Audio/Sound: 9/10
Suspense:
Overall: 9/10

Rated: M
Available for: Xbox 360, Play Station 3 and Microsoft Windows

Comments: Assassin's Creed starts you off playing as Altaïr and then violently throws you into reality. The reality is that you are Desmond, a former Assassin in the present day, and you have been captured by a pharmaceutical company known as Abstergo in order to undergo some kind of weird hypnosis treatment in a machine known as an Animus so you can run around in your head looking for some templar treasure called The Piece of Eden. For the majority of the game, you play as Altaïr and when you're not playing as Altaïr you're having conversations with Lucy before you return to your room to trigger a time skip to the next day.

The combat in Assassin’s Creed is basic at best, but it is a satisfying combat system: you have the choice to counter or attack. Attacking unskilled enemies will eventually cause them to die, where more skilled enemies will counter you. Countering unskilled enemies will cause them to die almost immediately but with the more skilled of opponents it will take a couple of tries.

Assassin's Creed can really immerse you into its domain with the twisted storyline: extremely fun and simple free-running experience and combat. When you play as Altaïr, you are sent out to kill X number of men and the only reason you have to justify your actions is your master commands it. As you kill said men, you begin to realize that what these men want isn’t evil, but how they are going about it is plain screwy.

A few things I need to point out the climbing physics will suddenly have a epileptic fit out of nowhere and that the sound in this game is amazing but the AI tend to repeat themselves way too much, which will make you want to kill every one around you, but you can't because that will cause your synchronization bar to deplete, which is the closest thing you have to a health bar. It depletes if you do anything morally incorrect: killing wave after wave of enemy guards is OK but punching some beggar who won't leave you alone will take a notch out of your health.

The humans look human enough I guess, but not enough for me to actually believe they are human. It is fun to mess around with the civilians and the side quests are big but not so big that it'll take you 100+ hours just to find all the flags in the game. Overall Assassin's Creed is a good game that will have you playing through more than once. Having said that, the reason you'll probably play through again is to collect flags. That feels like the game developers put that in because the game was to short.