Comments on: Assassin’s Creed On PC: Whaddya Reckon?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:43:54 +0000

Confirmed that the flags do absolutely nothing. So unless you’re *really* OCD, I recommend not bothering with them. There are, after all, about 600 of them to find.

I may track down and murder some more Templars though. That’s a lot more satisfying even if it’s nearly as pointless.

By: SuperNashwan

SuperNashwan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:25:42 +0000

I simply found myself agreeing with the popular sentiment that for such a beautiful game world it’s immensely disheartening to have such a limited interaction with it. It’s a shame because by now you’d hope developers might have cracked that problem, what with games like Deus Ex showing how to fake openness in a linear game, or Far Cry/Crysis manageably constraining it. Maybe it’s still to come because I’ve only played three assassinations but I’m guessing that as you progress nothing changes and nothing you do has a tangible impact on the world, as in say Outcast? I mean, even saving the citizens would be slightly more rewarding if they’d start to recognise you if you do it enough, like some medieval Batman.

By: richmcc

richmcc — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:57:04 +0000

I think it might have been the gamey-est game I’ve ever played. In a bad way. Like if you’d gone back to some kind of imagined past where games are like telly people say they are (gotta get that high score! etc.) and then zipped forward in time to release a single NEXT-GEN title.

Far too many arbitrary things to do, purely because the game runs out of things for you to do. A shame, because it is gorgeous.

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:51:09 +0000

I just got it, and I’d like to say that on my aging PC, it runs quite well. I have 2Gbs of RAM, a 7600GT, and a P4 at 3.0Ghz, and my PC runs the game maxed out at 1024*768.

By: H

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:07:38 +0000

I’m enjoying it so far (on PC), but I find it’s not so much a game as interactive entertainment software. I feel a bit like I’m just exploring and uncovering historical episodes of a History Channel interactive website.

I’ve never played a game with a mount before where I’ve just turned the horse around and around over and over. It looks so lush.

The swordfighting is a little pants, especially against the templars, but I think the hidden dagger works well. The only grumble I have on that side of things is that I couldn’t use it against aware opponents; you’d have thought it would have done as a last ditch slashing weapon, no?

There’s some bad clipping in places and some slightly iffy animation; like when two people interact and touch, often a hand disappears inside one of the toons (and not in a good way, eh?).

I also noticed during “cut scenes” and animations that the sound pitch changed a few times up and down. It gets a bit annoying after a while.

I’m enjoying it, but I wish there were more to do. I want to explore, talk to people, enter houses, start fires, rob, hide bins, etc etc. I suppose I want Grand Theft Auto: Crusades.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:43:39 +0000

It seems decent enough…runs reasonably well with the shadows and multisampling at bottom and everything else maxed at 1024×768 for me (Athlon 64 2 ghz dual core chip, 2 gigs Corsair DD2 RAM, SLIed 7600GTs.). The SF metalayer is for whatever reason a bit more frame-rate droppy than the huge expansive cities full of people (go figure).

I’m not as sold on the default PC control scheme as some people seem to be, but it works well enough so far…I just haven’t really had any high-stress situations where I might have trouble hitting all the right things in sequence, which I’m worried about.

Is there any point to the flags on the PC version, since there aren’t any achievements?

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:19:42 +0000

There seem to be a lot of people on the Ubisoft forums who can’t even install the game due to an error copying one of the game’s files. I see that IGN had the same problem with their review version.

Looks like the disc’s either been incorrectly mastered (it’s a dual layer I think), or the copy protection is conflicting with some DVD drives. It installed ok on my PC, but it took a long time.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:07:26 +0000

Yahtzee pretty much sums up the game:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2694-Zero-Punctuation-Assassin-s-Creed

I’ll get this because I do love faffing about in a game like this, running around stabbing random people, etc, etc, etc. I did that for hours in Thief 3 in the “city” areas between missions…

It’s the same reason I like all the GTA games (IV looks amazing), and why I am looking forward to Prototype.

By: Mickiscoole

Mickiscoole — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:06:51 +0000

I love the hidden blade. Sooooo freaking awesome.

@Radiant:
“What was the difference between the two swords?”
The shortsword has much much cooler counter animations, such as the one where Altair kicks the guy’s knee backwards, puts his arm around the guys neck and snaps it.

By: c0wb0ys7y13

c0wb0ys7y13 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:00:35 +0000

Iv already played through over half the game on PC (never played it on consol) and I think the game is great! The game had alot of hype, but i bought it because i like to 1) stab people, 2) climb on stuff, and 3) run on rooftops. The game fills all 3 of my qualifications! I hear people bash the game alot because they wanted a godly game and they just got an awesome game. I liked prince of Persia and Theif, and this game just seems like a mixture of the two.

By: yutt

yutt — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:50:01 +0000

Hey guys, I hear everyone on the bandwagon dislikes Assassin’s Creed. Let’s climb aboard!

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:23:17 +0000

I’ve played this for an hour or so, getting through all the tutorial stuff. Still in the first village, and from a graphics point of view it’s impressive, not played far enough into the game to make a definitive judgment on the full gameplay though.

I’m running it on a 19″ CRT at 1280×1024, but the annoying thing is that it’s widescreen only, so you get big black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

I’m guessing it runs about 35-45fps, and thats on an Q6600 processor, 2GB RAM and an 8800GTS G92. I’ve left antialiasing off because it hit the framerate too much, but everything else is at max.

I’m guessing because Fraps can’t update the framerate properly because the counter is displayed in the black bars, which don’t seem to be updating properly, and smearing the numbers.