Assassins Creed: Revelations: Review

Nov 14, 2011 by LuckyNoS7evin    2 Comments    Posted under: Gaming, Reviews

Good afternoon all you lovely people and welcome to my review of the soon to be released Assassin’s Creed:Revelations, I mean soon too, it’s released tomorrow (15th November).

So what’s the story? not literally, I mean what’s changed between Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and this new version of the long running series?

Since 2007 when Ubisoft first released Assassin’s Creed I have been stunned at what they have given us and I can say this once again. With Assassin’s Creed 2 they gave us better Graphics and a better story which was less repetitive than AC:1 and in Brotherhood (3) they gave us a better story, improved visuals and a good multiplayer.

So what does Assassin’s Creed: Revelations bring to the table?

Well I’m not going to spoil the story for anyone so I’m just going to say after 3 hours of game play the story is awesome 10/10, I hope by the end it answers all my questions, but up to now I’m liking it.

The graphics are the easiest to write about, they are more polished than Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, in terms of other games they are fantastic, there are very few games that have better graphics these days. I mean yes you can look at textures until they make your eyes go blurry so comparing them to FPS games, Racing games is pretty pointless. I’m going to give them 9.5/10 as I was on the PS3 version so haven’t seen the xbox 360 version.

Right now on to controls and the motion of Ezio (The Main Character, if you don’t know that you seriously need to start playing Assassin’s Creed from the start). They are the same as any other Assassin’s Creed and that is all you need to know. Ezios’ motion has been slightly improved over previous games but I personally don’t think they needed to change much in terms of single player gaming. You don’t seem to make supid mistakes like ha-way up a wall jumping off it and having to start the climb again.

The one thing that has been brought into each of the AC games is toys, the more toys you have to play with the better. In Brotherhood you could collect items from around the world to trade in for a few items which was interesting but they’ve gone one step further. Bomb Crafting, that’s right you can craft your own bombs, so what’s that all about? Collect pots as casings, gunpowder and other powders as the egnighters and some random items as shrapnel. This can create different bombs and grenades with smokebombs and distraction bombs included.

The other big thing in Revelations is the primary and secondary weapon selector. The old weapon selector was one wheel, the new one is two which makes for easier use and I know it seems small but overall it works in your favour.

The hook blade is another toy worth mentioning and by the name yes you’ve guessed it, it’s a blade with a hook on the end. There is a comical moment in the story where as you receive your hook blade the person giving it to you describes it exatly how it is. Climbing becomes more fun and speedy with this item and over the edge assassinations become easy and fun. The next big thing with this weapon is ziplining with air assassinations from the line.

An added feture to Single Player is a “tower defence” style mini game where you defend your base from a set number of waves. you build barricades, and have 4 roof tops where you have to put an assassin commander on to use that roof. you then get crossbow and rifle assassins who take out the enemy on the floor. It’s a fun addition and could see some improvement in future AC games.

So enough about the Single Player and onto the Multiplayer, the vertict is….Better than Brotherhood. In Brotherhood you used to aim for someone hit the assassinate button and get the person next to them. The targeting system was a bit off in Brotherhood and I’m glad to say they seem to have fixed it. In my time playing Multiplayer about an hour I don’t think I hit one wrong person, although oddly enough even before the game is released I ran into a lobby with a level 26 user… god knows how they got that high that quickly but it could be a tester or developer type person, answers on a postcard.

Now down to the verdict of what I truely think and what you should do. If you have played 1,2 and Brotherhood it will give you more of the same with improvments and more toys. If you haven’t played the series start with 1 and work your way through them all including this, it may take a while as you’re a little behind the times. If you have played and didn’t like it, I’m sorry for your loss.

9.5/10

On an added note.. I love the fact Ubisoft have included AC:1 on the PS3 version of Revelations, get hooked and play more.

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