Assassin's Creed

It suffers from the same issues as ACII, but is much more barebones by comparison. Like most AC games, the setting and premise are cool but all of the mechanics it utilizes are poorly designed and the general structure of the game is boring as hell. the first AC is even worse because at least ACII had a likable protagonist, this game doesn't even have that.

I'd travel back in time to stop this game before I'd football baby Hitler through a window. It gets SO BAD.

One of a handful of games that I tried to play on PC before realizing my computer's gaming ability sucked ass through a bendy straw. Playing it on console after the fact revealed I wasn't missing much

A great concept and a good looking game. I'm a sucker for anything time travel related. The mechanics worked well enough but the game play was so repetitive that I lost interest and didn't complete the game (the only one in the series I failed to finish) A good stepping stone for the series, but all future games would easily dwarf this one.

A very promising game that is let down by repetitive quests and underdeveloped gameplay. Still, I can see this engine being a major factor in a much better game. Might still be worth playing as a time-capsule type game.

While it probably had the best story in the series, it's gameplay is monontous and almost unplayable if you've played any of the other titles in the series. It plays more like a rough-around-the-edges tech demo than the highly refined parkour mechanics of its sequels.

cool game, good ending, but a little barebones and repetitive

Beneath its parkour and historical tourism, 2007’s Assassin’s Creed is a profound meditation on power. Through the Animus, it stages how modern institutions extract truth from captive bodies. The core loop of investigation turns the assassin into a mobile bureaucracy of surveillance, while the "synchronization" mechanic literally disciplines the player's hands. Ultimately, it masterfully disguises a Foucauldian critique of disciplinary control as a blockbuster stealth action game. - Full Review

good enough game. love the protagonist.

The team behind the Prince of Persia series (which this notionally started development as one of) continue to be masters of stylish and clever presentation, and climbing around the sprawling maps was a strong hook for the time (even if the climbing and maps have been done better since). The stealth and combat, though, are very simple, and need to be run through ad nauseum to advance a less than compelling plot, since there's just plain nothing else to do other than clamber around because you can