Assassins Creed

The first game I will be talking about is Assassins Creed. It is for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The graphics are amazing. The game is rated M (mature) for blood, strong language, and violence. I however did not find strong language, maybe because I am used to it. =).
The story of the game starts with the main character, Desmond Miles, imprisoned (I think) in a research lab with this crazy doctor Warren Vidic and his assistant Lucy. They are trying to find a very valuable treasure thought to be lost in the far past. They think that Desmond has the same blood as the people who found the treasure and they are trying to find out what happened to the past with this machine called the Animus. When he is strapped into the Animus, he is sent to the past in the form of his ancestor, Altair. The past is set in a medieval time and you will be playing about 85 – 90% of the game during this time. The only times you come back to the present is when Desmond’s body cannot tolerate the Animus anymore and needs to take a break. During this time, you walk around the lab, but you mainly go to the bed and sleep.
As Altair, you are a top assassin in a brotherhood. You have three tenants (rules) that must be followed: do not kill innocent civilians, forgot the second, and the last is the most important, do not expose the brotherhood. Throughout the game you will be investigating your assassination target by eavesdropping on important conversations, interrogating (by punching) people who work for the target, talking to informants from the brotherhood, or pick pocketing people who have important information. After you do enough investigating, you have to get permission to kill the target at the Assassin Bureau. Once you get permission you are given a feather to dip into the targets blood when you kill them. After that you return to the Bureau with the feather to prove that you have eliminated your target. That is pretty much what you do through the whole game.
The controls are simple (I will be talking about the Xbox 360 version). You have a low profile, which is stealthy and does not attract much attention. However, you walk very slowly and carefully around people, and I am an impatient person. Then there is the high profile. In this profile you can run, sprint, shove people around. However, it attracts a lot of attention and may make the guards attack you. You are in low profile by default. To get into high profile, you have to hold down the right trigger on the controller. The A button controls the feet. It does not do anything in low profile, but in high profile you can sprint. The X button is for the sword arm. When you press this in low profile you attack with the weapon that you have equipped (sword, dagger, throwing knives, or fists). In high profile, you can counter attacks. The B button is for the other arm. Pressing it in low profile will allow you to slightly push people who are in your way while walking, but not too strong so that they drop what they are carrying and attract attention. In high profile, you can grab people and throw them around or push people out of your way while you are running. The Y button controls the head. It is only useable in low profile and when pressed, allows you to use Eagle vision, which is an enhanced vision for Altair. It allows you to see who is an ally, enemy, innocent, or assassination target. This game is very fun and I would recommend it to gamers.
That’s it for now….=D. Enjoy the Vid.