Assassin's Creed -- The Controls and Combat.

I have spent a lot of time with Assassin's Creed but I'm only a third of the way through the game's story. I've been enjoying myself just collecting flags, knocking out achievements, and fully completing the free missions and full investigations before moving on to the actual assassinations. In that amount of time I've come to the conclusion that any talk of confusing or otherwise bad controls is full on rubbish. The game controls great with hardly any learning curve at all. Altair is an extremely agile character. He climbs and leaps like a monkey without any issues. The easy controls result some of the most fun combat I've ever experienced in a game. Once you've gotten hold of Altair's ability to combo kill and counter kill you'll be witness to some of the most visually stunning and viscerally satisfying combat that almost reaches the level of being balletic. And once you've gotten it down fully you'll be able to take on a hundred guards and come out the other side untouched. Altair is true video game badass. We know the controls work great and that the combat is great fun, but what of the other issues? I'll save those for next time...