Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed: BloodlinesAssassin's Creed: BrotherhoodAssassin's Creed Chronicles: ChinaAssassin's Creed 2
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Assassin's Creed
From our Review: If you play Assassin's Creed for an hour, you will probably think it's a fantastic game. But as Assassin's progresses, its dual storylines and repetitive quests begin to grow tiresome. There are so many great individual elements, but they are lost among the myriad of poor decisions from Ubisoft Montreal. Wasting the big twist on the first five minutes of gameplay is a tremendous mistake, but not nearly as damaging as the ill-conceived assassination investigation quests, which get old fast. The exploration aspects of Assassin's Creed and the combat are both plusses in my book. But those two elements are only a small part of the whole.Assassin's Creed Bloodlines
From our Review: Having experienced great success with the first Assassin's Creed on consoles, Ubisoft is turning the series into a full blown franchise with installments on every gaming device known to man, including the PSP. Assassin's Creed Bloodlines attempts to recreate the look and feel of the first game, while bridging tidbits of the story before the events of Assassin's Creed II. The result is a valiant effort -- a product that, at a glance, looks and feels like the console versions of the game. Upon closer inspection, however, it suffers from some control and content issues that hold it back from feeling complete.Assassin's Creed II: Ultimate Edition
From our Review: Assassin's Creed II transforms a middling action game into an intriguing and consistently entertaining open-world adventure. Based on this game, Ubisoft Montreal should run a clinic on how to iterate a franchise and if the series continues in this vein, the next installment will take aim at Rockstar's best efforts. The experience is layered, unique, and shows an incredible attention to detail. This is one case where the sequel has triumphed over the original by catching the gameplay up to the already excellent visuals. No matter what your preconceptions are about Assassin's Creed II, the game is well worth your time and money.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
From our Review: Assassin's Creed II is definitely one of my favourite games of the last 12 months. It was a meaty gaming meal that took several steps towards fulfilling the promise of the original, with new mechanics, more variety in gameplay, and an alluring new setting: renaissance Italy. It was a big leap, in other words: a worthy sequel in all regards.Brotherhood, on the other hand, will have a slightly harder time proving its worth.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
From our Review: Assassin's Creed Revelations marks the end of two eras as it explores the final adventures of Ezio Auditore and Altair Ibn-La'Ahad. Ubisoft's ambitious conclusion to a four game narrative manages to be the best chapter in the Assassin's Creed franchise despite suffering from some familiar problems. Witnessing Ezio and Altair come to grips with the lives they've lived is a remarkable sight, easily worth one more trip to a world we've experienced for several years.Assassin's Creed III
From our Review: If there’s one image that encapsulates the Assassin’s Creed series, it’s that of a hooded figure balancing atop some skyscraping parapet, looking down into the city below. It’s a snapshot that shows off a lot of what makes these games special – their incredible attention to detail, breath-taking verticality, fascinating architecture, unique historical settings - but it also represents their limitations. Assassin’s Creed games are easy to admire, but you often feel a bit distanced from them, too, held back from inhabiting these worlds as fully as you’d like to. You’ve always been on the outside looking in.Not so with Assassin’s Creed III, which hauls the series across the ocean into a new setting that’s absolutely bursting with things to do.
