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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $23.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 309
Format: Dvd-video
Platform: Windows
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Director's Cut
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.9
MPN: 68339
UPC: 008888683391
EAN: 0008888683391
ASIN: B0010EK3SE
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New/Factory Sealed, Near Perfect Condition if not MINT, Comes with full factory warranties/support as would be expected, Exactly as Pictured in FULL RETAIL BOX, Box may have slight flaw such as crinkle or blade mark, This is the same item you would buy at any major retail store for $50 + tax, Ships with FREE UPGRADE TO 1ST CLASS MAIL (delivery time usually 5-6 business days), Ships within 2 business days in bubble wrap envelope with FREE tracking # (email request for #/please allow 24-48 hours for reply), 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed, We are a 13 year old family owned business with 2 local retail stores here in Ft. Myers, FL. Buy with Confidence!!!!
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| Features:
| • | Experience exclusive PC content | | • | Be an Assassin! Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape. | | • | Realistic and responsive environments - Every action has its consequences. Crowds react to your moves, and will either help or hinder you on your quests. | | • | Dedicated historical accuracy, from the models of the in-game cities to the weaponry to the portrayal of actual political figures who died or disappeared in the year 1191. | | • | Experience heavy action-blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels. |
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Product Description
Assassin's Creed redefines the action genre. Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. The setting is 1191 A.D. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history. Next-gen gameplay - The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for Xbox 360 allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Needs more power than I have August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a Dell Inspiron notebook with 2.2 GHz CoreDuo, 4Gb of RAM and a fast HD running Vista. Admittedly, my video card is a bit underpowered - it's only a GeForce 8400 with 128Mb. The game is virtually unplayable, even with all rendering settings set to the bottom. Be sure you have enough horsepower before you buy the game!
 The PC is not the Xbox! August 24, 2008
When the PC version of this game tells you to click the "green hand button" (or something like that), you'd suspect that this game might have been directly ported from a console version. That is, without even changing the instructions on what key to push or which mouse button to click. The game might be the best thing that ever happened to computer gaming, but the controls on the PC version make it a nightmare.
Not only that, but even the character's movement is something I'd expect to see on a console (like PS2, Xbox, etc.) - really weird and difficult to manage.
I could gripe about the controls for days on end, but the bottom line is: if you want to play this game, buy the Xbox version, or if you already bought the PC version, buy an Xbox controller for Windows. If both of these options are unacceptable to you, like they aren't for me, shelf the game and keep its icon on the desktop as a reminder to read reviews before purchasing potentially frustrating games.
Such a shame.
 Gorgeous environments, chases over rooftops and fun swordplay in this game (PC version) August 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this game on Steam.
The video game was amazing. Here are the pros and cons that I saw:
PROS:
1. The outdoor environments are huge and all beautifully detailed. You also get to ride on horseback.
2. The buildings, mosques and churches and other architecture are amazingly realistic and I think these along with #4 below "made" the game. These really made it feel like you were in Jerusalem or Damascus. FREAKING amazing. I think this game is a landmark video game just because of the quality of the graphics for the buildings. Even the golden domes on the mosques shine with the sunlight. The game should get an award for this.
3. You will have many hours of fun because of the swordfights. Every time the player levels up, he acquires new swordfighting and combat skills. This makes combat always interesting and there's always something new to try out on your targets.
4. Both the "Bourne Identity" movies and the new James Bond movies have scenes where the hero has the climb walls and jump from roof to roof all with just his bare hands. In this game, YOU are Jason Bourne doing all that stuff. This and #2 "made" this game. When you're jumping from roof to roof and you're being chased by 12 guards while archers are taking aim at you, the feeling is exhilarating.
5. When you are in a city, you have a lot of freedom about where to go and what to do. It feels like "GTA" with horses and not cars. There is even a meter that indicates how "wanted" you are by the guards.
CONS:
1. The "Save a citizen" quests feel very repetitive after you've done a hundred of them.
2. You cannot swim. If you land in the water, you die. Why? If the hero is able to pull off the roof jumping stunts, why can't he swim?
3. You have to pick the pockets of armed thugs to replenish your knives. There is no assassin's store.
4. There is not enough variety in the dialogue spoken by NPCs. It becomes irritating to hear the same thing said over and over by towncrier-type NPCs.
Note to the folks at UBISOFT:
UBISOFT, be careful that the depiction of the Christian religion in your video games is fair compared to the depiction of other religions or beliefs. There are people who seriously consider that when choosing to buy your high-quality games or high quality games from another company.
Great game August 9, 2008
This is a great game that offers many hours of play time.
Some people might be worried about the controls in the PC version but once you get used to them they allow for much quicker actions than on console. If all else fails you can always buy a Xbox 360 controller for your pc.
Simply Gorgeous August 5, 2008
I decided to give this a try on the pc since it was only 30 bucks and don't want my pc to collect dust.
I'll start with the good: This game is beautiful and has the most immersive maps I have ever seen in game. It's like watching HD for the first time. Truly the best graphics I have ever seen and yes better than the crapiest game on earth, Crysis. The movement during fights is as realistic as can be and is fluid with you in full control. I've never seen that either, I've seen fight sequences that go into automode to impress you but you lose control of the fight. These fights, you are in complete control and are making the movements which to me is revolutionary for an action game. The audio is top notch with excellent voice overs. This game is so realistic, I actually got a knot in my stomach when I climed the highest tower thinking I was scared of falling! That's impressive when a game can do that. The whole virtual story line was also kind of refereshing. Hollywood is probably already making a movie out of this. Also, there were absolutely no glitches on this game! I ran it at it's highest settings and not one freeze lockup or crash! The game was extremely smooth. I'll put my pc specs at the end of this review.
Okay now the bad:
This game is for a console. The learning curb for keyboard and mouse is extremely high. I had so much trouble the first couple of days trying to get used to the movements. This game becomes very hard to control because of this. So much so I actually considered stopping all together, but the key is persistence and practice. Eventually the controls became second nature and I was able to play it fairly smooth with the keyboard and mouse. You could also add a pad to the pc but I didn't want to go through the troule. Also, the game became extremely repetitive half way through. It's basically climbing towers, pickpocketing, saving citezens and assasinating the leader. This was constantly repeated and became boring a little half way thorugh the game. I was also very annoyed at the capturing the flag side missions. First of all, what the hell do you get for getting them all? Second of all, it's boring looking for every single one. So I passed on that side mission as it was way too boring. While the cities were immersive with many citezens making it seem real, in the end the immersive maps and people looked more an more unreal. Like robots since the missions and actions were so repetitive. Example: you save a citezen and the second your done with diologue they look at the bodies and are horrified as if you never saved them at all. This is done so repetively that the dialogue is the same citezen after citezen. There was little interaction you could have with poeple. It's like they were locked to do only basic functions like robots. I don't fault the game too much since I'm sure most of the resources were probably used for the graphics and immersive maps.
This game is without a doubt a classic; however, I play this now just to show people how amazing it looks but I don't play it for replay value. If you have a next gen console, get if for that but if you only have a PC 30 bucks is a bargin if your willing to through the high learning curve with the controls.
PC SPECS AS PROMISED:
Vaio desktop pc
300 gb hardrive
2 gig memory
2.8 gig dual core pentium D
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 mb graphics card
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