Assassin's Creed this Friday, whose getting it ?

Wizardskills · 13 Apr 2008 at 00:47

This is a great game, love it. Doesnt seem to like me pressing CAPS LOCK though as it crashes and i have to force reboot

. Other than that it is ace

sniffy · 13 Apr 2008 at 01:19

BloomerzUK said:
Is it me, or are the controls bloody hard to get used to (Keyboard BTW)?

I was using a game pad but I tried out the 5 button mouse set-up. It's very nice tbh. If you're used to using a game pad then it may suit you better but I much prefer mouse + keyboard now

Black Dragon · 13 Apr 2008 at 02:14

NightSt@lk3r said:
40+

Not according to fraps.

dbmzk1 · 13 Apr 2008 at 05:13

Black Dragon said:
Not according to fraps.

It has already been explained to you that fraps is incorrect.

uv · 13 Apr 2008 at 10:26

Stellios said:
What sort of settings would i be able to run this at on the folowing system?

Q6600
4GB RAM
8800GTS 640mb

Res: 1280x1024

That's a joke, right?
When there's a game your rig won't play at 1280x1024, I'll mail you personally and let you know.

There, no need to ask such a silly question ever again

Skyboat · 13 Apr 2008 at 10:28

Fraps is indeed bugged, was curious about my FPS too but it's next to useless with AC.

Hellsmk2 · 13 Apr 2008 at 11:41

This game is really really really dull. Every mission is exactly the same, "free running" becomes old fast, and the fights are too easy.

Grab - throw - stab.

or

Sword/ Short sword - defend - counter.

Even not using the two methods above and trying to up the difficulty, fights are still insanely easy. Looks nice though...

mohawk · 13 Apr 2008 at 12:24

you can fullscreen the game by pressing ALT+Return, then it runs in full screen, otherwise its ******* annoying.

mrk · 13 Apr 2008 at 12:29

I too am getting bored of this game...

MoratJG · 13 Apr 2008 at 12:58

mrk said:
I too am getting bored of this game...

You can add me to that list as well.

It looks stunning, the movement and combat are good and I love the setting. However, after a few hours, the novelty wears off and the missions become *really* boring. I've just reached the Rich District in Damascus and I'm looking at my map thinking "I can't be bothered to shlep over all the unexplored area just to do missions I have done before".

A real shame. If it had a Witcher-esque plot it would a superb game.

mrk · 13 Apr 2008 at 13:00

Now I'm relying on Mass Effect to bring in the fun times as Ass Creed has been a let down, R6 Vegas 2 is a complete let down...

bayo000 · 13 Apr 2008 at 13:04

MoratJG said:
You can add me to that list as well.

It looks stunning, the movement and combat are good and I love the setting. However, after a few hours, the novelty wears off and the missions become *really* boring. I've just reached the Rich District in Damascus and I'm looking at my map thinking "I can't be bothered to shlep over all the unexplored area just to do missions I have done before".

A real shame. If it had a Witcher-esque plot it would a superb game.

glad that i bought the witcher yesterday and not this

I was always planing to get AC when it gets into budget bin anyway

MoratJG · 13 Apr 2008 at 13:11

bayo000 said:
glad that i bought the witcher yesterday and not this
I was always planing to get AC when it gets into budget bin anyway

Don't get me wrong, The Witcher is not without its faults, although it is much improved by the patches. If you can, I'd hold off playing it until they release the Enhanced Version in May. If you have the full game it will be a free update.

.one. · 13 Apr 2008 at 15:24

mrk said:
Now I'm relying on Mass Effect to bring in the fun times as Ass Creed has been a let down, R6 Vegas 2 is a complete let down...

Not sure about creed i kinda like the repetinus of it all mm not sure if i spelt that correct

And yes R6 Vegas 2 is pants to be honest.

Draeger · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:26

Finally finished my tour of duty this morning ,got this installed and started playing.

Couple of things I have noticed.

The "lip sync" of the characters during cut scenes seems to lag behind the actual words being spoken via the sound. However, having read the possible fix for this a few posts back regarding the hardware accel, I will try that.

After say......40 mins playing, the entire game performance appears to start "degrading" if thats the correct descriptive word to use?.

I.e. it all starts progressively slowing down like the game is caching or something?. Last game I had installed that exhibited this problem was "Just Cause".

Quiting, restarting PC and starting the game again does the trick, but its annoying.

Controls are fiddly to get used to.

I've also installed this on my Dell XPS 1530 laptop and its playing very smoothly at 1440x900 at med details in DX10 mode ( My desktop system has an X1900XT which only manages DX9 ).

Nice!!!

One thing, at the start of the game I read text on the screen that said "When you see a Glitch, press any button".

What's that about?.

Interesting game so far though, I'm going to keep at it for now. :cool:

psychas · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:29

mohawk said:
you can fullscreen the game by pressing ALT+Return, then it runs in full screen, otherwise its ******* annoying.

return

u mean backspace or enter? :confused:

Gerard · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:38

Was looking forward to this ages ago then tried it on the 360. Had me yawning inside of 5 minutes.

Kristoph · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:46

Draeger said:
One thing, at the start of the game I read text on the screen that said "When you see a Glitch, press any button".

What's that about?.

Interesting game so far though, I'm going to keep at it for now.

A glitch is normally in a cut scene, the screen appears to flicker and seems like the Animus (sp?) is showing the symbols / code.

It just lets you change camera view / see different things.

I played this game on the 360, it's fairly boring tbh - the only bit thats interesting is when you get a new weapon.

The free running is ok now and then, but the missions are boring as hell after you've done one or two.

Draeger · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:54

mp3kla said:
A glitch is normally in a cut scene, the screen appears to flicker and seems like the Animus (sp?) is showing the symbols / code.

It just lets you change camera view / see different things.

Cheers for that m8, kinda thought as much that this was all it did.

Thing is, during a games cut scenes, I tend to sit back with my hands off the mouse/ KB and watch them ( especially when you can't skip them like in this game ) so I missed hitting the mouse button the first few times but I've caught it a few times since.

Yep, all it seems to do is change camera perspective.

Kristoph · 13 Apr 2008 at 16:58

Draeger said:
Yep, all it seems to do is change camera perspective.

I think when you kill a main mission target, you can do it too.

Gives you a differen't version of them speaking - not sure if its different speech lines, but I think you can have them alive, or in your arms dieing.