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Assassin's Creed Game Informer Review - 9.5

If only to experience the unique world and amazing movement and combat, gamers owe it to themselves to try Ubisoft's big holiday release. Its stunning visual style, high concept story, and wildly open level design are like nothing else, even if too much repetition begins to frustrate in the later hours. It's a game people will still be talking about five years from now. Come to think of it, they may have a lot more to talk about by then.

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MK_Red6026d ago (Edited 6026d ago )

Holy Moly ZOMG! Superb awesome find. Seriously. Superb review. GameInformer FTW! Assassins FTW!
An open world / sandbox game that innovates and has superb graphics and production values. A true masterpiece.

The game is longer than 10 hours and it's replay value is "REPLAY: High" and it has no multi! Wow, my definit 2007 GOTY, At least based on this:
"a title that innovates in so many areas it helps to set a new bar in various aspects of gameplay, storytelling, visuals, and controls. "

Now this is a true next-gen game. Innovative, awesome and fun.

ThaGeNeCySt6026d ago

This is exactly how I feel right now... I fell in love with this game and was jealous of PS3 owners when i first learned of Project Assassin... then it became multiplatform and I was excited... then previews and the E3 mishap made me lose almost all interest in the game... but now after this review... my interest has SKYROCKETED

MK_Red6026d ago

It's more than great that all PC, PS3 and 360 gamers can enjoy this masterpiece :)

The special thing for me is that GameInformer is my fave review source and I believe in their reviews and scores more than all other source combined. I absolutly wasn't expecting their review so soon. Thought it's another Halo 3 / COD4 case that reviewers have to hold onto their articles and publish them just when the game comes out.

Kudos to Ubisoft, Game Informer, Jade Raymond and her excellent and talented team.

jcgamer6026d ago (Edited 6026d ago )

Thanks bro...your enthusiasm for Assassin's Creed got me more interested in this game, serious...and I trust Game Informer...what they say goes for me...I'll most definitely buy and play Assassin's...but when will my wallet allow me? lol...2007 is an awesome time to be a gamer...*wipes tears from eyes*...AHEM...lol...game on MK!

"It's a game people will still be talking about five years from now." -Game Informer

MK_Red6026d ago

Thanks my friend. I know, I already have wallet problems as well but 2007 is certainly an awesome time to be a gamer. Game on!

""It's a game people will still be talking about five years from now." -Game Informer"
Superb one. Kudos to jcgamer and GameInformer :)

okcomputer6026d ago

Definate goty based on one review? Umm how about playing the game first.

MK_Red6026d ago (Edited 6026d ago )

AC was my most anticipated game of 2007 and what I saw in GDC and even E3 was more than enough to convince me that this is a masterpiece. The reason I said GOTY based on 1 review is that all my review need to decide about a game is Game Informer. The only source I trust with reviews and when they say it's a superb game I believe them. I don't care what GameSpot, IGN, 1UP and rest of the pact say in near future. They all have more than one dark point in their histories.

And one review from Game Informer is worth more than reviews of GameSpot, IGN, 1UP, GT, GPro and EGM combined so... yes based on this review, Assassins should be GOTY! (God I love this game...)

Skerj6026d ago (Edited 6026d ago )

Might go down being my GOTY alongside Persona 3, but that's just how I play. Next Wednesday can't come soon enough!!

Violater6026d ago

"even if too much repetition begins to frustrate in the later hours"

Vertius6026d ago

We did read that, Violater, and other than that sentence, and references to it later on, the review was glowing. The score speaks for it, of course.

khrisnifer6025d ago

Bring on 'Prototype' for 2008!

socomnick6025d ago

mk red you think every game is a masterpiece lol

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Skerj6026d ago

Fears offically alleviated, paying it off tomorrow and I will be picking it up next week. Now my holidays will REALLY begin.

lynx1halo6026d ago

A MUST BUT FOR ANY TRUE GAMER

predator6026d ago

god damit have to wait till crimbo cos my missis wants to get me it for crimbo.

damit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PureArts & Ubisoft Announce Assassin’s Creed Hunt for the Nine 1/6 Scale Diorama

This should make fans and collectors very happy. PureArts & Ubisoft Announce Assassin’s Creed Hunt for the Nine 1/6 Scale Diorama Assassin's Creed Hunt for the Nine 1/6 Scale Diorama available for pre-order on January 25.

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Can We Finally Admit Assassin's Creed 3 Deserves an Apology?

AC3 was released during a turbulent transition period for Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed series. It ventured into uncharted territory, narratively and mechanically, which caused it to receive mixed reviews. At its core, though, it's a damn good stealth game.

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isarai208d ago

Nope, I hated 3, connar was bland, literally the most flat character in the entire game. Not to mention to myriad of bugs, camera issues, and that annoying thing where he automatically ditches his weapon you payed for for the sake of a cool finishing move forcing you to trek back to your base after almost every encounter just to re-equip your own weapon. It just didn't work as fluidly as the others like 2 and 4

Samonuske208d ago

The series peaked at AC3 for me. It’s been my favourite in the series. Connor will always be one of my favourite video game protagonists.

Becuzisaid208d ago

No. Game was BORING. Connor was really dull. Environments, while impressive, because of the geographic location and time period were not really exciting to be in. I would love some kind of game set in there colonial American time period, but a game like AC that back then centered around parkour and vertical traversal really didn't fit those environments.

-Foxtrot208d ago

Nope

There was a lot of issues but mine is how they handled the war

They told us Connor was not going to get involved, that the war was more of a background setting for the real story and it wasn’t going to be one sided

They lied, even the cinematic E3 trailer showed Connor emerge from the Colonist side and slaughter the red coats to get to his target, inspiring the Colonists to fight back

I just thought it would have made more sense lore wise that the red coats were mostly compiled of Assassins fighting the Colonist templars who wanted to take the new world for themselves.

Since the Red coats lost the war, it would then explain how the Templars started to gain the upper hand and how on the future the assassins were mostly killed off and the Templar’s had pretty much taken over everything.

Instead it just felt like they didn’t want to p*** off the American audience

Even Haytham was cool, he should have been an Assassin through and through and should have been the main lead.

toxic-inferno208d ago

The game even seems to lack the humour of the other games. It almost seems as though the idea of even slightly making fun of American history wouldn't be acceptable.

-Foxtrot208d ago

Exactly

It just felt super safe

“Better not make the colonists look super bad incase people boycott our game”

jeromeface207d ago

someone missed the whole point

-Foxtrot207d ago

There was literally no point

What I've just said above would at least make sense lore wise and why the Assassins start to loose their war, die off and how the Templars are in control in the future of almost everything....what they did was just, pointless

CrimsonWing69208d ago

I’m one one of those weird people that liked Ass Creed 3, but to be fair I never got around to finishing it.

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5 Of the Most Unlikeable Video Game Protagonists

There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.

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GhostScholar219d ago (Edited 219d ago )

I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.

gold_drake219d ago

omg chloe was awful. i really hated her at the end haha

Cacabunga219d ago

Abby was absolute trash protagonist in every way..
Tidus was so meh to me..
On villain side, the one i didn’t like wa Micah, because they wanted him to be that way and it was brilliant👍🏽

Rancegamerx219d ago

I agree, I liked Max, Chloe was a horrible friend and a bad influence.

Cacabunga218d ago

Everyone agrees on chloe, I’m sure even ND do.

H9218d ago

Both are horrible, granted Chloe is infinitely worse, it feels like Chloe is just fanservice for people who too over the edge and wasn't written to be a character that makes sense

GooGobbler219d ago

What about that Forspoken Tw*t

MrChow666219d ago

exactly I was expecting it to be a the top of the list

ravens52219d ago

Ye I was expecting her too. Guess they actually played the game. Unlike you and whoever agrees.

gpimlott218d ago

I played through the whole game and think she is one of the worst character Ive ever played as

ravens52218d ago (Edited 218d ago )

gpimlott. How?

Stanjara208d ago

Why would I payed and played the game if the whole internet is making fun of a character?

-Im here to kill Chaos...are you Chaos?

Yeah, I didn't play that game either.

Christopher218d ago (Edited 218d ago )

She's actually not bad. It's the writing itself that is bad overall, but she's fine overall. She's no worse than Miles Morales IMHO. Both thrust into a spotlight and receiving both praise and blame and dealing with it.

Forspoken is a bland game because it's 75% bland, boring, repetitive going through the motions and diversions that add nothing of the value with purposefully gated memory moments that don't feel organic or like you're discovering things but waiting for others to reveal things.

ravens52218d ago

Exactly Chris. Even though I liked the game. I kno u played it. People who actually played it and went thru her dream saw she was a good likeable person who really just acted out due to being alone and unloved. I think your problem is it was open world, I think if it was more linear you may have liked it better.

savedsynner218d ago

Oh no she's bad. Very unlikable even before you add on the bad dialogue. The game could have been quite good with a good protagonist

ravens52218d ago

For all the people like synner. Shes actually half white lol. Inferior complexity is a hell of a thing. You'll be ok.

Nerdmaster219d ago

Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.

-Foxtrot219d ago

Squall is one of the best developed main FF characters so...

People talk about his "whatever" thing thats at the start of the game, not the character he eventually becomes in the end.

Nerdmaster218d ago

No amount of "character development", (especially the ones that for me feels sudden and undeserved like Squall's), will justify him being a d**k to my girl Quistis. Even if he found the cure for cancer, from that moment on, I would never like him.
The article is about being unlikeable, and he was indeed unlikeable for at least half of the game.

BrainSyphoned219d ago

Squall is the best protagonists in FF so you can go whatever yourself.

H9218d ago

My good sir, I need to steal that "you can go whatever yourself" because it's gold

BlaqMagiq1219d ago

Except Squall has actual character development.

gold_drake218d ago (Edited 218d ago )

the "watever" is only present in the english localisation.
so your argument doesnt rly ... stand imo.

Nerdmaster218d ago

Good for you that you could enjoy the japanese version. That's not the case for me and the majority of people here, though.

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gold_drake219d ago (Edited 219d ago )

i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.

i actually liked Max haha.

the forspoken chick is missing tho

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