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Empire Reviews Assassin's Creed

Pushing through high street crowds on a Saturday afternoon or squeezing onto a train packed with scowling commuters, it's hard to imagine how any game could find fun in jostling with a belligerent sea of humanity. But with sprawling ancient cities teeming with life and endless opportunities for mischief, Assassin's Creed shrewdly uses pedestrian gridlock as an ever-shifting backdrop for its diverse challenges and brutal combat.

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Scythesean6039d ago (Edited 6039d ago )

in other words no free running like you want instead the game decides when you jump and how. So sad that makes this game lower on my must buy list.

FreeMonk6039d ago

Empire is one of the biggest selling movie magazines in the UK, so somehow I doubt that this is a bogus review.

Empire can be quite harsh on titles when reviewing them. Some movies that have received 5 out of 5 ratings from other sites have got a 4 star and sometimes 3 star ratings from Empire, so I expect other reviews to be a bit more optimistic!

mighty_douche6039d ago (Edited 6039d ago )

"But as there’s no jump button and your hero will perform most acrobatic moves automatically - Legend Of Zelda-style - the controls strip the game of the visceral thrill of making moves at precisely the right moment like you did in the developer’s earlier Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, making AC’s most exciting moments feel flat and as if they’re being played by someone else."

this was very disapointting to hear :(

EDIT @ okcomputer, your totally right mate, i was hoping for a game that i could play like GTA, when i wasnt in a mission or on 'free play' i wanted to be able to just run around finding new jumps and challanges to set myself, this suggests to me if your running across roof tops you simply press forward and all the 'skill' is done for you, sure it makes it user friendly but IMO also severly reduces its longevity. shame.

okcomputer6039d ago

Yea thats the part of the review that stuck out to me the most. The evasive moves and freerunning seemed like the best part of the game in the previews. Making all that automatic seems pretty lame to me. Like the devs couldn't find a way to do all the things they wanted to and just put in a bunch of canned animations instead of a solid control scheme. Could you imagine playing prince of persia if all the moves were automatic? It'd take most of the fun/challege out of the game for sure.

iNcRiMiNaTi6039d ago

now im thinking twice about it...no jump button? the first thing i was gonna do was run around the game trying to do some crazy moves and see what i can or cant do....auto jumps are retarded.

no jumps kills a big part of what made the game appeal to me

Lucreto6039d ago

From the look here it seems this in new information. I heard it was automatic nearly two months ago from a manager in GAME.

I thinks it will be fine as my timing it poor at best.

jackfatal6039d ago

i am skeptical about this game!!
i'll wait and see the reviews and people reviews!!

Charlie26886039d ago

Same here I think a demo or renting the game might help to persuade me but as or right now I don't know

ATLRoAcH6039d ago (Edited 6039d ago )

This review is questionable.

mighty_douche6039d ago (Edited 6039d ago )

just read the update, not sure why its 'questionable'?

Empire is a very reputable site/company.

ATLRoAcH6039d ago (Edited 6039d ago )

Its not so much the site that is questionable its the timing of the review and the fact bigger more known sites haven't reviewed it yet but somehow this site has it first.Another thing to point out that I thought was weird is this site reviewed Ratchet and Clank and gave it a five star rating.They reviewed Assassin's Creed four out of five stars but yet gave Assassin's Creed game of the month.I like Ratchet and Assassin's Creed it just seems a higher rated game would have gotten their game of the month.

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gamesblow6039d ago

I knew there wasn't going to be a jump button... I knew it! hahaah! I love how everyone is failing to report this bit of info. I remember when everyone was saying how Uncharted didn't have a jump button and it took away from the game and la la lalaal "well it came out to be false, thank god" but this is uncalled for. What a joke.

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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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isarai212d 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

Samonuske212d 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.

Becuzisaid212d 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.

-Foxtrot212d 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-inferno212d 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.

-Foxtrot212d ago

Exactly

It just felt super safe

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

jeromeface211d ago

someone missed the whole point

-Foxtrot211d 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

CrimsonWing69212d 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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GhostScholar223d ago (Edited 223d ago )

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

gold_drake223d ago

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

Cacabunga223d 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👍🏽

Rancegamerx223d ago

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

Cacabunga222d ago

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

H9223d 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

GooGobbler223d ago

What about that Forspoken Tw*t

MrChow666223d ago

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

ravens52223d ago

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

gpimlott222d ago

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

ravens52222d ago (Edited 222d ago )

gpimlott. How?

Stanjara212d 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.

Christopher223d ago (Edited 223d 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.

ravens52222d 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.

savedsynner222d 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

ravens52222d ago

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

Nerdmaster223d 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.

-Foxtrot223d 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.

Nerdmaster222d 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.

BrainSyphoned223d ago

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

H9223d ago

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

BlaqMagiq1223d ago

Except Squall has actual character development.

gold_drake223d ago (Edited 223d ago )

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

Nerdmaster222d 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_drake223d ago (Edited 223d 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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