Comments on: So… Assassin’s Creed PC?

By: sub-program 32

sub-program 32 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:59:52 +0000

Ahh, the wonder of hindsight makes me look at this post and feel sad.

By: rohtash

rohtash — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:47:11 +0000

i have pirated version of Assassin’s creed. my game stop responding when i enter in jerusalem city.is anyone tell me about by-passing this problem

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:36:19 +0000

8800GTS is actually a higher performance (and price) card than the GT. Perhaps you’re thinking of the GTX or Ultra?

The new version is, the old 8800GTS isn’t.

By: Shoshomiga

Shoshomiga — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:29:28 +0000

Actually there is a working Russian pirated version in which you can get from start to end with no crashes…

Pirates 1|Ubisoft 0

By: Horse9118

Horse9118 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:58:37 +0000

actually, it runs pretty well on a low end pc. My old Pc has AMD Anthlon 64 32000 single core overclocked to 2.7 GHz and overclocked Nvidia Geforce 7300LE. the game run prefectly on 1280*800 resolution with everything on high

By: wtf

wtf — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:14:28 +0000

@malkav11 you sir are an idiot.

By: Alarik

Alarik — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:03:51 +0000

TreeFrog: Well, we are living in pretty nice age, aren’t we? Powerfull, nearly top end GPUs for the prices of mid-range ones… Great times. Those GPUs are a bit “step down” in power (cca 10-20% difference), but quite a big “step down” in price (more than half).

9600 GT – cca $230
8800 GT – cca $300

ATi GPUs cost approximately the same.

While top end GPUs (GTX, X2, or Ultra) can cost from $500 – $800.

And of course those are average prices here (you can get it much? cheaper of course).

By: TreeFrog

TreeFrog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:47 +0000

If that PC spec is mid-range now I will eat a series of hats. The graphics card is only one step down from NVidia’s top-end model, FFS.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:32:44 +0000

8800GTS is actually a higher performance (and price) card than the GT. Perhaps you’re thinking of the GTX or Ultra?

By: Nallen

Nallen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:39:55 +0000

The game runs a lot better than Crysis. At least, er… in the first couple of areas. Full detail on a fairly mid-range system (Core 2 Duo, Geforce 8800GTS, 2gig RAM). Where Crysis chugs, A-Creed is silky smooth, and looks absolutely gorgeous.

First of all, Crysis didn’t chug on my carbon copy of your PC (of course it could chug if cranked up to far, but there was no need to make it chug) and secondly, my PC is mid spec now? :( Only upgrades seem to be a Quad core CPU (doesn’t seem to be a point, almost nothing slows down on the CPU) or a 8800GT, which is tempting but probably pointless 90% of the time as well.

By: Rook

Rook — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:32:32 +0000

Boo! Because every time a game leaks a developer/publisher loses their wings.

Or gets shutdown. Or blames piracy on their reason for moving to console. Or starts putting in retarded copy protection, etc…

By: Jachap

Jachap — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:06:05 +0000

I hated Assassin’s Creed. Forgetting about the cutscenes and how unremittingly bland it was and the awful sci-fi framing device (which really does distractingly permeate everything, quite unnecessarily) the way Altaire is controlled is initially baffling. Then, as you get used to it, you realise that you’re just holding the same three buttons and choosing a direction. Its like some sort of auto-pilot. To climb a tower, you hold the button down and press up and watch the animation. For a while, just how amazing the animation is sort of fooled me – somehow – into thinking I was actually doing something.

However, the whole game is framed to make you feel like a puppeteer. It wants you to feel detached. When it finally succeeded in making me feel like that – like someone who has to hold the Play button down on their VCR to watch a video – I just didn’t want to play any more.

Take the combat. It starts off as quite a refreshing challenge. Then, beyond a certain point, it entirely comprises of block-block-counter. When I wiped out an entire army camp of about twenty to thirty guards it felt like I was playing a rhythm game comprising of one button I had to press every five or six seconds.

People go on and on about the repetitive nature of the “chores” and the horse riding. But that infers that the assassinations are something special. They’re just as dull as the rest of it.

And yet, I can’t deny its diverting. My house mate can idle away ages just running from place to place, killing archers and climbing towers. Its also very pretty.

It still bores the shit out of me personally, though.