Saturday, March 14, 2009

Assassin's Creed

OK. So, $20. Picked up Assassin's Creed. I've actually wanted to for a while - it seemed interesting, might be an interesting story, mix of stealth and combat, etc.

Not bad at all, especially for that price, though I'm not that far in yet. And even on my not-top-end hardware (Athlon 5600x2 2.9 ghz, GeForce 7900, 2 Gb RAM, XP Home SP3, Viewsonic 1680x1050 monitor) it's *gorgeous.* Not hard to pick up, either - yeah, the "modes" thing sounds like it might be a bit much, but once you get into it... not an issue.








I have to admit, it's fun pickpocketing, climbing up buildings, diving into haystacks to get lost, and the "Eagle vision" they give is rather interesting. Gameplay's fun, it's not combo-crazy or anything, it's pretty straightforward.

There are exactly two things that bug me, though, both having to do with this being from a console.

One - *save points.* There's no "Save" or "Quicksave" that I've seen... no, once certain points are reached, you save. I hate that. If I want to leave now, I dont' want to lose my progress.

The other... exiting the game. It's a good five step process... exit memory, exit animus, exit, then for some reason it asks for a profile again - so select and exit AGAIN. I know for a console you just exit and yank the disk - why does this have to be sucha process on a PC?

Guys...
"Exit"
"To menu" or "To desktop," with a "cancel" option. That's all it takes. Not five minutes of screwing through menus to find every exit option.

Other than those two... tis fun.

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