Well I bit the bullet and purchased Assassin Creed.
This game has atmosphere and I think is quite unique!! I can see "Thief" (the game) very slightly within it.
AC is not a slash and hack game. It is all about being reasonably stealthy and remaining unoticed. Once you are noticed..well, be prepared to run and climb...especially if there are more that just a few soldiers after you
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Animation is excellent and as for the horse riding, it has you droolling. The horses respond so very, very well. Turning and fighting on the horse is effortless. It is all down to you and how well you can turn your horse and swipe with your sword and with good manavouring of your fingers on the keyboard/mouse to get the result
. The hooves of the horses make a clopping sound on rock and when not it is more muffled, very nicely done. When the horse falls during a horseback fight it is quite heart wrenching, as it looks and sounds sooo realisitic . So far I haven't come across any enemy horse back fights only with grounds men.
The cities tho similar to look at have wonderful buildings and the landscape outside the cities is excellent. The land is very dry and you can almost feel the sizzling heat coming from the ground.
The objectives through the game so far, are similar tho, but I have not found it in the least boring.
You have the challenge of climbing up tall steeples - this does get easier thank goodness once you get your controls sussed out.
You have the fun of leaping between buildings, climbing up walls/ladders and running across roofs. Lots of fun when you have the soldiers coming after you and I have to admit it does get a bit tense if you get yourself cornered. There are hiding places, but i am not going to tell you what they are
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I use the keyboard and mouse and it took me a couple of days to get use to the binds, but I seem to beable to use it now without thinking too much about which key to push.
During the game there are little reminders of what combo keys to use with some objectives if you haven't used it before, so that is great.
The only thing that bugs me is exiting out of the game. It is not like click exit couple of times and you are back to desktop. It is bit of a long drawn out process, which is a pain.
There are no manual quick saves/save available. The saves are when you complete an objective or collect flags. At first I thought collecting flags was a bit tacky, but I actually enjoy it. Some are easy to get others not so easy and they are not all visible so you have to hunt. There are roof top races and time races which are quite challenging.
Well I have prattled enough, here are some ingame screenies
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that knocking the ladies walking by carrying their clay pots on their head is fun........
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