If I remember correctly, I played both II and Brotherhood before going back to the first game. As most of the critique pertains to, it's EXTREMELY repetitive, basically doing the same 3 things over and over again. But the boss assassination reward when having enough info is pretty sweet, and it's fun.

When this game came out, tho, it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. It was like Prince of Persia, but with this super cool twist, and for its time, it was super advanced. I mean, look at the AC games now, I'd play this over Mirage every day of the week.

Now, what I find so ironic is that the story's theme of control and free will, and like mass mind control, has culminated in Ubisoft being under the same control and lack of free will for their franchises, which has spun completely out of control. Quite funny when you think about it. I love the story lore in the first games, and the first game in the series really set it up. It's a fun twist on things, and it's a shame they have completely disconnected this part in the games after III.

I got this game ridiculously cheap awhile back and decided it would be good for me to experience the series from it's beginning and understand what has made this series so popular. While I'm glad I gave it a try, this game has definitely not aged well, and after getting about halfway through, the frustration was such that I've decided not to finish it.

While I really enjoyed the world-building (the towns are so well-constructed for the type of action they were designed for), the required gameplay itself was an absolute slog, and felt like it had very minimal effort put into it. While it can be very run to parkour your way around town (when the controls actually do what you want them to), I couldn't stand doing the same menial tasks over and over to advance the story while listening to the repetitive dialogue copied and pasted across a multitude of lifeless characters.

However, I can appreciate the importance of the game in the context of the time it was released, and playing Assassin's Creed has still made me want to give later installments in the series (which I've heard have many improvements) a try.

Ubisoft incorporated a lot of interesting new ideas into this game, so it is no wonder that it became one of their best selling games at the time in 2007. They must be appreciated for trying out something like this.

Unfortunately, the game feels quite repetitive. For every mission, Altair visits a particular region, must visit the local assassin's creed bureau, carry out 3 investigations and kill the target. This must be done 7-8 times.

The controls are very buggy especially when we are trying to escape from the guards, Altair seems too stiff and rigid and I have noticed many times that he does exactly the opposite of what we want.

But the real highlight of the game are the conversations that Altair has with his targets after killing them. Some of the stealth kills that Altair performs are just breathtaking to witness, though funny at times when it happens in front of a crowd and they act as if it did not happen. Altair and Al Mualim's voice acting are very well done.

The game has some repetitive gameplay and is probably too easy but really shines as a classic in spite of those things.

The climbing ability in this game was revolutionary and although knowing where it all goes spoils the story a little bit on repeating playthroughs, the mystery it sets up is really effective and leaves you wanting more by the end of the game.

4 / 5 Stars

This game is not bad and for the time that it was, it sure was new and innovative.

Gameplay: the mechanism of this game is horrible, it really didn't felt nice playing it, the character would lose balance on things that weren't supposed to or jump when I wouldn't want to jump.

The Story: It doesn't add much to the game too, which left me thinking they were already planning to release another game when they were doing this one (Which they might but I didn't investigate).

World-Building: The world was not bad, very repetitive building but I wouldn't blame them for doing that, the cities felt alive which was very great.

SFX: Poor handled, sometimes, the music was too loud I couldn't hear what the characters were talking, it was something...

Although they were all of these things from the game, I enjoyed it, it was nice to play it and see what the first game of this franchise was like.

There are some good moments, but you can stop after 3 memory blocks, and you won't miss much.

The gameplay is too repetitive, but the graphics look ok-ish in modern times.

Don't bother to finish it.

Hard to imagine someone spending time to get 100% from it (like gathering all the flags etc)

A lot of people disregard this game and start from the second one but I really like it. If it wasn't for Altair and his story we wouldn't have the legacy of Ezio, nor the Assassin's Creed series. The parkour is a bit clunky, keep in mind how old the game is, but I really enjoyed the story and all of the history it contains. Altair's character development from an arrogant know it all, to an empathetic and humbled veteran is really well done. Don't skip this game if you're just starting your Assassin's Creed journey, just give it a chance.

P.S : You will rage a few times throughout your play-through, again keep in mind how old the game is.

I don't like Assassin's Creed, okay? Someone must, it's not me; I'm tired of holding the right trigger the entire flipping game (why can't it auto run/climb and then have me push the button to WALK and not climb??!?) for dissatisfying combat and stealth missions without any supportive stealth mechanics.

Good graphics though, I do like seeing the recreations of historic places.