Ok i have now completed this game so here goes.
The story line at the start seems to bit a bit confusing, as its like a matrix style machine that you are in your memories / or ancestors memory to be correct.
YOu start off with all abilities to do a mission but you only get to kill one guy, the rest are cut scenes. You then loose all your ranks and weapons because of the mistake and the assassinations you do gains you your weapons back etc, whilst following the storyline of ending the war across the land.
When entering a village you cannot get past guards, you can either go over the top, free-running style or use the monk people to blend in, these monks seem to be able to wonder anywhere they wish.
Once inside the city you must climb up to high view points to discover missions in the area close by.
These missions consist of earwigging, pick pocketing, interrogation (fist fight) and civillian saving (this makes them your allies who help you get away by grabbing persueing guards etc).
The actual assassinations are good, im sure i could have done them alot better, but i seem to just find it fun to kill every single soldier in my way rather than going all stealth stylie.
Before each assassination you can read through the information gathered which consists of soldier positions, monks path (to get past guards) and targets location and when to strike (ie, when he has his back towards you).
The achievements are quite easy apart from the finding flags and killing all templars, but the others are generally easy, im not going to bother trying to complete all this and will be selling it in hope i can get COD4 for the same price.
One last major tip is when completing informer challenges where you have to assassinate templar guards within a time limit, it is soo much easier if you make sure there are no dead bodies laying around (so dont go on killing sprees in that area) as this attracts guards and puts them on alert which makes assassinating VERY hard.
The ending of the story line is, as constantine said, not particularly the best but it has left it WIDE open for a sequal.
All in all i would rate this game as 9.5/10 the 0.5 was lost due to the lack of extra weapons such as bow and arrow and more moves and stuff, maybe they will add this in the sequal, but yeah, this is a must get for someone who has a few days to waste (thats how long it takes to complete)
Kev
