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 - Great gameplay and graphics!First off, I have a high-end machine courtesy of pcgamer mag's dream system specs, so no problems there. Plus I have wide screen monitors which I heartily recommend. I actually was able to play this on high settings very nicely, whereas Crysis had to be lowered for it to look good on my rig. I found using my logitech gamepad the way to go w/ this game, the keyboard/mouse was not as nice for me. The voice acting and cut scenes are enjoyable, and in particular I really liked how you switch between the present and the past. In the present you have a meglomaniac yelling at you to get back into the machine, and once in the machine of course you take out all your anger on your targets. The fighting is fun to play once you get a handle on the counter-moves. The sound effects during battle are excellent, and the various moves you can pull off are always fun to watch. The cons for me are: - can't easily exit the game - can't skip cut scenes even after you've seen them already before - the ending battle is ridiculously impossible! It took me something like 10 hours of attempts to finish that end battle. So the good news is you can eventually do it :) The end of the game leaves you hanging and wanting more, so I am definitely awaiting the sequel. Rating:  - Best Game played in the last five years.This game is so life-like in its historical representation that it will emerse yourself in 1191 Crusades of the Holy Land. Here you follow the memories of Altair, the head Assassin as he conducts himself on nine missions (Not to mention a hundred side missions that you can enter freely of your own will). I can see this game engine use in other simulations, like Shinobe of Japan, or even a Bourne Supremacy game. The details are amazing, masses of people interact and the slightest mishap will draw you into an incounter. Fight or flee. Its your choice. One aspect of fascination is the computer's prediction on weather you will make a leap from one rooftop or not. Precision was taken to allow a sense of fear as the computer predicts based on your angle and speed. This changes with just a mili-second of decision. It is very real aspect to the game. Even the horses move with realism... A must have. Rating:  - Good, but not great...Pros: - looks amazing - fun to kill with swords and knives - most assassinations are interesting and fun Cons: - at times the controls can be maddening, like when you want to disengage from a fight - somewhat repetitive up until the last assassination - can get confusing sometimes at what you are supposed to do Bottom line - looks great, but the controls ruin it. Rating: - EntertainingThe story is amazing. The end is a bit abupt, but there's another one coming out to continue the story. It ran really well on my Mac Pro with 8800GT (I have the older mac pro with the newer vid card) with Vista 32. Rating:  - DirectX 10.1 support, or lack thereofAssassin's Creed for the PC was released with DirectX 10.1 optimizations which enabled better performance for 10.1-compliant video cards, which are currently only made by AMD/ATI. Ubisoft has now patched the game to disable DX10.1 support, and has no announced plans to reinstate it. Several websites have connected this action with the co-marketing agreement between Ubisoft and Nvidia, suggesting that this is a deliberate and corrupt move to cover up Nvidia's weaker performance on 10.1 games. The net result is that consumers are getting ripped off -- not just ATI card owners, but Nvidia buyers as well, because actions like Ubisoft's encourage Nvidia to cheat rather than improve its products.
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