Assassin's Creed gameplay video in three parts

Still no release date on this puppy? Not a great sign.

Yeah, uhh...

Assassin's creed looked great initially, but the more I see of it, the more I feel they should just wait until next year to release it.

they should just call this bad asses creed, i hope they work out the battle AI cuz other wise its gonna get old fast

Read the article about this over at PS3fanboy

The signs look bad, they seem to be having similar issues to GTAIV (programming issues with PS3, disc space issues with 360)

What are you people talking about There IS a release date, it's november 13th.

i hate how they couldn't keep the twist a secret. i have yet to play a game that made me go "OOOOH SNAP" because of some crazy plot. maybe i should just stop going video game blogs.

There was a moment of glee when, after just walking around a crowd for a while, he suddenly jumps and climbs up a wall.

It was a little hard to believe all of those guards didn't just jump on him and pin him to the ground.

why didnt he kill the head knight with one of his instakill thrown daggers?

and yeah, that combat looked very easy and unrealistic

maybe this is a failed assassination attempt? a good assassin is like agent 47 (in most missions), nobody suspects foul play unless you want them to

It seems like he can run past everyone if he wanted to...
They better fix that.

Yah, needs a bit of polish. When you're surrounded by 10 guys, they shouldn't just stand there with their thumb in their ass while you fight one at a time. Game still looks hella sweet though.

So sad that a game could have as much press and "potential" and then looks as though it will fail miserably all in the same 3 months.

The more I see it the less awesome it is. :( Kinda reminds of the Thief series except here you can just kill anyone and anything without much trouble, you can climb on anything so there isn't much difficulty in escaping it seems. The combat against a mob seemed kind of lacking too, 80% of them sort of stood there and pointed at him and that was about it. And for a guy wearing a giant-white jesusrobe how is it he manages to blend in crowds? I hope I'm wrong but the game looks really "easy".

They really gotta stop showing videos if the game isn't finished yet. They are killing the hype and basically having people wonder if this game is going to ultimately fail.

looks like someone forgot that realistic and fun are not the same thing. However, there is a POSSIBLE explananation (read: best case scenario) and that is that they just had them all stand around for demonstration purposes and in the real game they will attack and instead of fighting them, you will need to run away because of course one person cannot take 10 unless hes a super ninja or a god of war or whatever. Im hoping that the final game the sequence will be more like:

kill the target
counter one or two of the knights who attack you first
run like hell

and if thats the way it works then the combat system doesnt have to be fast, it just has to work well enough for you to kill one or two for fun and to then bolt.

So assuming thats the case, then of course they will change the AI a bit. Remember, there is still plenty of time to fix AI, its not like they have to fundamentally change the way the game plays. So I think in the final release you would be attacked maybe by 3 or 4 at a time (remember swinging a sword around does take space, so you cant exactly have 15 poeple swinging at once), although you would have to be able to survive of course, and you would flat out die if you stood around and fought them like you did here.

From what Ive heard, its not a hack and slash, so Im reasonably confidant my explanation is PLAUSIBLE.

otherwise ubi is really shooting themselves in the foot.

I don't think cyanide makes you froth at the mouth.

Take your time with this one guys, it looks far from done. That fight scene was an abomination.

I've taken this from pro-g who have just posted a hands on with the game:

"There is no difficulty level to choose from. Combat isn't about complex combos but well-timed counters. Even when surrounded by ten guards, you're not in massive trouble. They won't all attack at once, instead stalking, conveniently waiting for the other to strike first. Counter one thrust, and you'll trigger one of Altair's animations (24 in total) which usually result in a gruesome death. Do this for a bit and your enemies will start to get edgy. Then it's time to go on the offensive. You could probably go on like this, countering every strike, until the cows come home. But you'll have to make a run for it eventually."

and

"Every time you kill a civilian you'll lose a third of your life. You'll even lose life when you run over people when on the horse, which you use to travel between the cities. As the developers said during our hands on: "It's Assassin's Creed, not mass-murderer creed." No GTA-style murder mayhem then."

Looks like the enemy AI will stay like that for the release, more like a slow action adventure type game than a full on hack/slash game. Especially as it doesn't have any difficulty levels.

This game looks great, but the fighting mechanics looks a little weird. I believe this title is going to be pure eye-candy and nothing more. The battles looks weak!

The fight scenes have looked the same for several builds. The graphics look great and all but if thats how the fighting is going to play out it'll be a disaster. It just looks so damn awkward with all these enemies standing around waiting for you to attack kind of like a bad episode of power rangers.

I think the game looks amazing. Sure the combat kinks are there but how do you realistically think you can fight 10 guys at once?

I can see why the European kingdoms lost the crusades. A white ninja is jumping around a fortified city like a freaking chihuahua on crack and the guards don't even bother to turn around to see what's going on.

I don't care when this game comes out it just better come out good.
The fighting sucked and it seemed like there was no limit to his instakill daggers.
Like someone else said before, take your time guys.

Maybe they were just playing on the EASY level!!!

Exactly my point.

I thought this game had a release date? September 13th or something like that - the week before Mass Effect and Uncharted.

Oh well, if this is representative of where the game is actually at right now, I hope they delay it. There's some definite work that needs to be done on the AI and the fighting.

Awesome.

WOW! This game just looks better everytime I see it. I seriously can't wait for this game, easily MY most anticipated game this year. My only complaint isn't about the game, but the gamers. Too many people complain about the combat, who honestly gives a damn. The game is about being an ASSASSIN not a WARRIOR/TANK-type character, so obviously the combat isn't going to be like a Hack N' Slash. It's supposed to be designed around defensive/evasive manuevers. Besides if you are truly good at the game, you'll probably never even have to get into a 10 on 1 fight.

This game looks really sweet... beautiful graphics and animation, awesome wall-climbing and crowd-interacting mechanics, very cinematic feel... as for the difficulty of getting out of situations, it might be because the video could have been from the first mission.

Oh, and from the looks of it, even though Altair may run fast, it seems like there are too many guards all over town who'd be looking for him.

looks like crap

Do any of you actually realise the way in which sword fights take place? Now, in the case of a 10 on 1 fight, to have all 10 men attacking at once, would likely cause half of them to kill the other half, it doesnt work!

Even with 2 on 1, unless the 2 are experienced at fighting in tandem, it is far more likely they will cause problems to each other rather than help. You may think from Hack and Slash games that surely everyone should just attack, but as trained sword fighters the AI they have would tell them not to attack when their friend is attacking, as they will likely just hinder them.

You want realism, thats far closer. However i would point out that it would make far more sense for the guards to jump on Altair, to throw things, use bows and arrows, or other methods to stop rather than just running after him like fools. The combat AI would be reasonably realistic however.

Blahh hit the nail on the head. Forget what video games taught you about sword fighting, real swords (of the European variety) are not just large knives. They are kind of heavy and have a weird balance to them. The good thing about this is that they have the ability to sever limbs, the bad thing is that they require quite a bit of momentum to swing and more than one person swinging those bad boys around could cause more trouble than good. The semi-realism is apparent in the animation. Though I do hope that the later levels are much harder.