it's look like prince of persia but with some realistic elements and some arabian aspects, the graphics are much deeper from that in POP games surley and also the storyline is more catchy.
E3 '07: Assassin's Creed Hands-On
Perhaps you've heard of Assassin's Creed? Well, we finally take our first hands-on look at the game at E3 07.
Assassin Creed likely needs no introduction: Since its introduction at last year's E3 event, the game has been turning heads with its mysterious assassin-in-medieval-Jerusalem setting and its eye-popping graphics. A year later, Ubisoft is finally giving the press the opportunity to go hands-on with the title, and we recently had the chance to sit down for nearly an hour with Elspeth Tory, the project manager for the game's animation, as she showed us the most recent build of the game and let us play it for ourselves.
For those of you who haven't been following the title, it's worth pointing out that Assassin's Creed is what Ubisoft Montreal has been working on since the last entry in their extremely well-received Prince of Persia series. It follows the adventures of Altair, an assassin who works in the Holy Land in the 12th century, working on behalf of the mysterious Hashshashin and tasked with killing targets inside a large city. During the demo, we picked up hints that he and the Hashshashin are working against a mysterious Brotherhood, but what they represent isn't entirely clear.
Our demo began with Altair standing on a wooden beam on the roof of a building, where Altair is supposed to make what's known as a "leap of faith," which allows him to dive into a bale of hay on the street below him and thus quickly and stealthily make his way down to street level. Unfortunately, we clumsily executed a regular jump, sending Altair onto the pavement itself. While painful, the falling damage wasn't enough to kill us, so we took off toward our target, a slave driver named Talal who had set up shop near our location.
Given the game's origins, it's unsurprising that Altair moves in a manner that is, at least on the surface, reminiscent of the Prince in the Prince of Persia games. Given the free-form nature of the city in which Altair works, however, the movement system here is both more fantastic and more realistic. It's more realistic in the sense that you're unable to jump incredible distances, an acrobatic limitation that's particularly noteworthy during combat; but since the city is built with a number of extremely climbable buildings and short jumps, you'll also find yourself scampering up walls and leaping from rooftop to rooftop. This "free running" style of movement is easily accomplished in most instances, as you're capable of simply holding down the right trigger button and pressing A on an Xbox 360 controller to activate it. While holding down these buttons, Altair automatically tries to use the most fluid movement available to him in the direction he's facing, whether it's climbing up to the roof of a building or jumping from beam to beam. The primary source of interaction while Altair is free running lies in choosing his direction, as your choice of path will determine the kind of route that he will take.
You're not limited to simply running and jumping around, of course; by default, Altair will simply walk slowly through the multitude of people on the street. Your goal as an assassin is to remain stealthy and and blend in with the crowd, and there is in fact an option to hold down a button for "blend" mode, wherein Altair will move very slowly, but will clasp his hands and bow his head in a pretty good imitation of a monk. That will let you meld with the crowds and avoid the attention of guards who might otherwise become suspicious of you. If you're too impatient to deal with that, though, you can also use gentle pushes to make your way more swiftly through a crowd, or simply punch people out of your path--but that will, of course, draw unwanted attention.
When you are spotted, or when you simply don't give a damn whether or not you have to fight off a guard, you can hold down the right trigger to activate your high alert mode, which allows you to move more quickly through crowds and also attack or tackle people who get in your way. All of these actions are mapped to your controller's face buttons, and they're context sensitive. All of your actions are visible in the upper-right corner of the screen, which should make it a bit easier to get the hang of the game when you're just starting out.
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why?!?!?!?!? i thought it was historically accurate. well it's not i mean come on the dome of the rock was supposed to be gray until the 1950,60,or maybe 70 then they put the paint r whatever on it please does anyone knows how to contact anybody in ubi so they can fix this problem, other than this the game is the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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/agree with Jnvwv Cesar.............just wow lol@u Definetly looks like an interesting release. /preordered
I'm prob going to get this for the PC but im worried they will screw the pc gamers over with a really half-arsed port of the 360 controls *cough vegas cough* .... tempted to get it for the 360 but I'm just a mouse-whore at heart.
I cant wait until this game comes out, i like the hitman series, so this should be right up my alley
i'm also buying a new system for this game. i totally loved the PoP games, hopefully assassin's creed will be as good.
i like this game sooooooooo much i am buying a new pc just for it and i like the setting in Jerusalem,demuscus and acre which was my hometown before the israelis took it from us arabs
November is fine. It will be better if its done in November and complete, than on store shelves today and broken and buggy.
I have been eye ballin this game for a while, and can't wait for it's release in november. It is going to be awesome
the game looks awesome...i've been checking this game for a long time...cant wait for it to come out
cool i can't wait to put my hand on it do any one notice that he looks like Prince Of Persia
Wow cesarblue (you misspelled ceasar btw), you're really a bastard. It seems to me that you only made your little double post to hate ps3, I'm not a ps3 fan either but I'm sure that most people checking out the 360 version of a game that's also on the ps3 aren't ps3 fanboys.
only other thing i would ask ubisoft to add to this game is make the character be able to be a blackman I 'm tired of not having the choice, just give us the option..... great game tho, yea this to me is a updated prince of persia, it's not ninja gaiden cause they made that game nextgen on a 5yr old system and it still looks just as good as this so don't compare the too plus ng has magical summons and assasin creed is a human with no summon trainning,, different worlds. remember ps3=neo-geo don't be fooled and no mgs4 is not there savior, it will be a good game but not a 600 game. all the doubters i'm going to run down games on why you should get the 360 bioshock gears of war oblivion two worlds Mass Effect these are all just in this yr along imagine what going to happen next yr when democrates win the presidency and the war is over man i can''t wait buy that time the 360 with hard drive will be 250 and then we will really get it cracking until then come check my blog www.myspace.com/prophetschasinpaper thanks leave a message let me know what you think
This is going to be a good game but Mass Effect will be game of the year Matter of fact Once Mass Effect come out all other games will be obsolete, I think that assasin creed looks to be on that nexgen level, and should be a enjoyable time, All I got to say is sory ps3 I mean neo-geo but since you don't have any exclusive rights and we know your going to be running at 30fps just trade your ps3;'s in and by a 360 , if gears of war didn't do it for you then wait till Mass Effect, come out, don't forget we got Fable 2 coming out, I mean those two games along should convince you, As far as the wii goes, this is a childs game nobody in the right mine could compar 360vs wii yea the sales are going to be in the wii favor cause it's cheaper and it caters too children but that just means if your 6-14 this is the game for you, no aldut is should be playing this, look bioshock vs metroid prime, (bio shock wins) what about Gears of war vs Paper Mario you see it just isn't fair, i didn't add oblivion which i might add the wii can't run, nor did i add Two worlds, so guys just admit it 360 is a true next gen. I would even go so far as too say it's the best console out right now for nextgen, only thing it really doesnt' have is backwards compatiblity but u should have your xbox to stasify you on that. ps3=neo-geo that's the new sologan so tell your friends ps3=neo-geo come check out my new blog www.myspace.com/prophetschasinpaper leave a comment tell me what you think Last thing Mass Effect is the best game every I think it will make history
Sounds great-geeze, my lack of next-gen systems is pissing me off. I wanna do this on a console... *sigh*
This game is amazing. Complete interaction with your enviroment. And realistic combat really makes this a game to really take a closer look at.
Simply amazing. This game is brilliant and the visuals are beyond eye candy. The sword fighting engine is definitely a work or art. Finally a game with realistic sword combat.
This game looks really great, and i think it will be, but they could completely screw it. But if not, it'll be the best game...
As I was looking the gameplay movie,I realize that this game is a mix of Splinter Cell,Prince of Persia,Ninja Gaiden & Thief.I hope that the story will be good,because than the game will be amazing.Shadow to shadow,kill to kill.
This game apparently uses the same gameplay elements as Splinter cell 5. So it'll be intresting to see which game is more entertaining.
It looks and sounds good, but I am worried if it will completely deliver in the end, after so many assasination missions it might get tiring, repetitive, and boring. Hopefully there will be something to spice it up.
This game will be sweet.I want to here of some online multi-player action similar to Splinter cell,except with Altair and gaurds.Syria's a part of the game,sweet!
@gfrxarts Do you realize that people who have a Wii also can have a 360 or PS3 or a highend Gaming PC?
Hmm cool man sounds and looks great i played all the Prince of Persia games and loved them and this game also looks nice i am buying this game. The graphics and physics are worked out well and alot of interesting realistic moves are our disposal
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- Release Date: Nov 16, 2007 (EU)
- PEGI: 18+
- Release Date: Apr 11, 2008 (EU)
- PEGI: 18+
- Release Date: Apr 11, 2008 (EU)
- PEGI: 12+
- Release Date: Apr 21, 2009 (EU)
- Release Date: Aug 21, 2009 (US)
- Release Date: Nov 4, 2010 (US)
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