Inexpensive Game of the Week : Assassin's Creed

Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, DS

Rating: 8.0

Cost: ~$20

Assassin's Creed, when it was first released, was talked about by everyone. The progressed the adventure genre to a new level. Everything was new and exciting. You could slow down time, and perform fatal attacks on guards and people. And, unlike other games in this genre, your attacks would vary depending on where you stood, and from where you jumped. So basically, the game was thought-out well.

The game pretty much takes place in 2 different time zones, the present, and the past...way back in the past. Most of the game you control an secret assassin, who follows missions, which are sent to him by higher leadership or authority. You have a dagger, and a sword, and later in the game, a crossbow. You can jump from giant heights, if you execute the jump correctly. Everything ties in with each other.

This is a great game, but can get boring after a while, due to repeated action. So I would recommend this game mostly to players who like games like Prince of Persia.

Oh, and also, don't buy the DS version, save yourself the awful experiance of having to see a perfectly good game get massacred with the DS. Just don't do it... you will be better off buying crack with that money, believe me.

Bottom line: If you are an adventure gamer, buy it. Otherwise, you may want to rent it and try it out for yourself, just to be sure.