[wbassett]

I just beat Assassin's Creed (well last week)

The game is nice, not too hard and not so easy it becomes boring. The graphics are incredible, especially the buildings. When climbing the towers to view the territory they look like real buildings.

What's interesting about the game is their approach. You start off in modern times and have been kidnapped and forced to use a machine called the Animus. The Animus allows you to relive 'memories' of your ancestor... a unique idea. In most games you just 'die' and hit a button and magically get reborn and continue on. In AC since you're supposedly in a machine remembering and 'reliving' past events, your character never really 'dies', more like you fail and then are sent to a 'different memory' location. Kind of a neat concept if you are following what I am saying.

Anyone can beat this game. It's not difficult to learn the controls and beat the bad guys. The story line and graphics are what kept me interested and wanting to find out what was going to happen next. This very well could be made into a movie or even a TV series very easily.

What I really liked about it was there was a morality play in it. Here you are, an assassin, but you actually start to question your actions and why you are doing what you do. Ultimately you have to question the motives of the Assassin Creed Master himself. Not everything is as it seems.

At one point I thought I figured out what they were looking for. By 'they' I mean the scientists and organization from our time that is using your character. Needless to say I was wrong and it was a nice misdirection on the game creators part.

They definitely are going to have a sequel because the game ends in a rather strange way. I was sitting there partly thinking 'WHAT?!' and also thinking okay, you got me... sign me up for the next installment!