Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines Review.

[matez6]

Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines

Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines (AC) is now officially my favourite game. As many of you may know, I was very nervous about expecting too much of this game, then being horribly disappointed. I couldn’t judge straight away, but after an hour of gaming, I knew that this was a great game. Although I haven’t played the first AC, I heard many stories of the game being too repetitive and boring. This definitely isn’t the case with Bloodlines.

The Good
Graphics.
When I’m playing a game, I like to look at attention to detail; Ubisoft has done very well here (if that’s their area). 9/10

Controls.
Great and easy to understand and adapt to straight away. 10/10

Gameplay.
This wasn’t the best game I’ve ever played, but it comes pretty damn close. In comparison to a game like God of War: Chains of Olympus, (which in my opinion are similar) of coarse GOW has done better. I my opinion this area is better than average games. 9/10

Storyline.
I very much liked the story line. Your name is Altair, and you are an assassin. The game takes place between Assassin’s Creed 1 and 2. You are in Cyprus, and well you have to kill people . Sorry, I never pay much attention to any story line of any game I have ever played. I don’t know why. But if this matters to you, which it doesn’t for me, I suggest another review. 8/10


Upgrading.
At intervals, you are able to upgrade your weapon damage, health, etc. with the templar coins you found and earn. I know this isn’t so amazing, but I wasn’t expecting this. 8/10

Weaponry.
You have for the whole game 3 weapons and your fists to use. Altair starts off with 3 daggers, which you can throw at an enemy and retrieve. You are able to upgrade to 5 later on. A long sword which I used only for battles. And you hidden knife which you stab a soldier whom is not expecting the attack, which can be great fun.


Glitches.
Well I didn’t experience one glitch while I was playing so that was a plus. 10/10

Sounds.
Footsteps, slashing of sword, climbing ladders, pigeons flying away, all the basics. What else do you want? I even bought new headphones to use just for this game. And it’s the only game I have used the sound all the way through. 10/10

The Bad
Online Play.
Before playing the game, I was hoping for some online play. I was disappointed, but not too harshly because I was thinking about what you would do online, and I couldn’t think of anything. I don’t know much about this, because it doesn’t affect me. But I know you are able to connect your PSP to your PS3, and if you have both Assassin’s Creed 2 and Bloodlines, apparently you can upgrade or something like that. If you’d like to know more about that I recommend reading another review.

Difficulty.
This severely disappointed me. I was hoping to first finish the game on easy, then on medium, and give it a shot at hard. That’s what I did with GOW, I finished all the difficulties except God mode (the hardest), which I couldn’t finish the last level. Because there was a massive and nail biting wait for me, I was disappointed when the game didn’t ask me what difficulty I would like to choose.

Overall
Well here in Australia the game is $70, well that’s what I payed. And I just saw it at other stores for $60. So 60 AUD would be about 33.5 GBP. Great game will definitely go down in price later on. I’ve seen God of War: Chains of Olympus for 20AUD, which is about 10 GBP. If you’re running short on money and you haven’t played GOW, I’d definitely recommend it over AC any day, as long as AC costs that much more.
The inability to change the difficulty and the shortness of the game kills it for me. So I’ve lowered the overall rating purely on those two. But it was still a very good game, for me.
Overall Rating: 9/10

Well I know this review is quite short and you can tell it was rushed. I had very little time to write this and I wrote most of it today, while my parents are at work and I’m home alone. I don’t get much time on the computer. I don’t think I would’ve ended up posting it if I didn’t promise everyone. this has been my first reveiw ever, so please no put downs children.

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[ukpsper]

Thanks! That is two good reviews on here for it.

When I get my code from Sony, it really is going to be a difficult decision between AC and Motorstorm AE. Which do you think has longer playability (including replay value)?

[griffinx15]

there are some parts where you could develop a bit more, but it is good overall, good review, oh and don't worry about having two reviews of the same game as two opinions is better than one !

[xXHotFuzzXx]

Trick is! Don't sell yourself short...... We all have a different way of expressing our selves in writing. Never feel you measure up short to others, this an important lesson in life! Give everthing your best shot and above all be true to yourself. The review was really good and you didn't just rush it out, you took your time. I enjoyed reading your review and It counts as another opinion. I have the game but only played it for about 15mins. Thanks for the insight!!

HF

[The Juggler]

For your first review it was good... great job... so all in all are you a little disappointed with the game as I know you wee expecting GREAT things of it?

I think many of the reviews I have read state that this is a good game but just not GREAT as many had expected it to be.
Hype can be a killer.

[Arbitron007]

Heh.......Good review bro. Lots of people have been getting mixed reviews on this game. Tough decision. Well, even though you may regret geting the game, happens to everyone. Like, sorry for the Metal Gear Solid 1 players out there, but that game is just really boring to me when everyone was saying it was a good game. But it was just $10, so not bad

[matez6]

Well, even though you may regret geting the game, happens to everyone.

did i say i regret getting this game well i didnt i mustve been drunk

Trick is! Don't sell yourself short...... We all have a different way of expressing our selves in writing. Never feel you measure up short to others, this an important lesson in life! Give everthing your best shot and above all be true to yourself. The review was really good and you didn't just rush it out, you took your time. I enjoyed reading your review and It counts as another opinion. I have the game but only played it for about 15mins. Thanks for the insight!!

HF

thanks. yeah i know i didnt rush it, i just said that coz its crap

[peteyglad]

A local store has it on sale for $30 this week. I will probably pik it up.

[peteyglad]

Ok, I got it Thursday night and just beat it. I would say 6-7 hours doing some of the sidequests. Here are some of my impressions. Some of this has been said already, but I will share anyway.

1. Game was not too short, but just about right for this type of game.

2. Has several glitches I found, but only 1 requird me to quit the game and restart. That was when I entered the a castle and the screen went completely black. Once I restarted it, it was normal. Other glitches include after killing someone near a wall, they just wall through the wall, killing someone on a cliff and they don't fall down, they just hang out in space. Sometimes during a cutscene certain parts of the cutscene will be repeated twice. Usually just the speaking part. Those last ones were not that big of a deal to me.

3. The upgrade system was kind of pointless. Other than the health upgrade I couldn't really tella difference.

4. Like the origina AC (no idead about AC 2) there is no dificulty setting. Sometimes that doesn't bother me, but when the game is this easy it is a little frustraing. I wouldn't mind a tougher challenge.

5. For most of the bos battles they would not really chase you, so you could keep running until your health replenished then take another whack at him. Kinda made the boss battles a little cheesy.

Overall it was a very good game and not deserving of the ratings it got. I bought it for @29 and am not disappointed in the least. People have posted that there is no replay value, but for me there is. I would like to collect all the coins and do the sidequests.

[blueicm]

Don't kid yourself you did a great job! I wouldn't mind reading another one. Hmm.... Birth by Sleep an Avatar comes out soon.