Assassin's Creed -- Final Opinion.

I have completed Assassin's Creed and in the process unlocked every possible achievement. I have to say I really enjoyed Assassin's Creed. Although it does have a true fault. And that lies in its repetitive gameplay missions. For each of the nine story assassinations you'll do the exact same things numerous times over. You're looking at climbing six to twelve high points like towers to get a grip on your surroundings per assassination. You'll need to pick the pockets of a couple of people to further your investigation per assassination. You'll need to extract some information from someone by force per assassination. You'll need to deal with a couple of informants per assassination. And you'll need to save six to twelve innocents from harassing guards per assassination. And then of course the main story assassination takes place and you're back to the guild for the next assignment. In between all of that you have the extra activities such as collecting flags and searching out and killing the Templars. That's what you get to do, and you'll be doing it a lot. Everything else with the game is very well done. The world itself is arguably one of the most impressive and fully realized worlds from a level design perspective. The cities are amazingly and intricately designed. You'll believe them real. And you'll enjoy climbing and scouring every last back alley and rooftop. The graphics are great. It's a very pretty world. All the characters, main and non-player characters alike, have a great level of detail and animation. The sound design is equally impressive. Great music from Jesper Kyd and very good voice acting all around. Not a bad voice in the bunch. The combat is easily some of the best I've ever seen. It's just brutal, impressive, satisfying, and fun. The story of Assassin's Creed is also very well handled. I really liked the story. But I'll admit it's not for everyone. It's a whole lot of arguing of from a certain point of view. And in the end, should you reach it and unlock the secret achievement Visions of the Future, the game presents you with a myriad of very cryptic hints toward what's coming in the next two chapters of the proposed trilogy. They're going heavy with the whole DaVinci Code enigma thing.  It's not for everybody in that most people won't even understand it should they even be bothered to find it. And yes, you have to find it. And they'll be annoyed to find riddles and hints that are all over the place with no sense of closure. I was particularly impressed with the conversations had with the victims during the assassination missions. I found those to be a great story device. And I'm also impressed with the sense of history in the game. I've already covered how the controls work great in the previous entry. I really liked the game and look forward to the next installment. The repetitious nature of the gameplay being the only flaw and worth the deduction of a full point, I'm giving Assassin's Creed a 9.