modern day descendent, Desmond. The game features one of the most unique game worlds ever created: beautiful, memorable, and alive. If you ever wanted to live 1191 A.D, nothing can come even close. As assassin extraordinaire Altair, you'll explore three major cities of
the Holy Land in the 12th century: Jerusalem, Damascus, and Acre. Each city is beautifully rendered from top to bottom and features meticulously crafted towers that reach for the sky, bustling market squares, and quiet corners where the citizens’ converse and drunkards lie in wait to accost you. The story that binds it all together rises to the occasion. Actually, there are two related stories in play.

The Game Play
Assassin's Creed features one of the most unique game worlds ever created: beautiful, memorable, and alive. Every crack and crevasse is filled with gorgeous, subtle details, from astounding visuals which flourishes to overheard cries for help. During the game's time-frame
Damascus is under the control of Salah ad-Din (or Saladin), Jerusalem is as yet independent but has been infiltrated by both forces, and Acre is controlled by King Richard of England.
The three main cities are huge, split into three distinct districts and full of citizens, guards, speakers, merchant stands, buildings, beggars who will irritate you for alms and just about everything you'd expect to see in a city from that era . The streets are full of people, and by full I mean absolutely busy streets. The first time you see Maysaf your jaw will hit the floor due to the game's beauty, but it's not until you walk the streets of one of the three main cities that you'll see what the game engine is really capable of.
There are also some optional missions, such as rescuing innocent townspeople from the clutches of guards. The reward for doing so is a group of vigilantes who will hang out in the area afterwards and hinder any foes chasing you. What you hear is even more impressive
than what you see. At the top of a temple, you hear little but the rush of wind, the twittering of birds, and the barking of a far-off dog. In the most populated areas, your ears will
fill with the din of street vendors, the pleas of beggars, and the occasional humming.

The Performance
The visual design has a lot to do with how believably organic everything feels. The cities are
absolutely huge, and though you don't get full exploration privileges in the first few chapters, they eventually open up to let you travel seamlessly from one side to another. Everything is beautifully lit with just the right amount of bloom effect, and almost everything casts a shadow, from tall pillars to Altair's cloak. The mystifying effect of being in a busy city streets of Jerusalem probably will make you forget that you are sitting in front of your PC or a gaming console. The game looks much better on a high end computer than it does on an Xbox 360 or PS3. Surprisingly the minimum system requirements are pretty much high. You need at least a dual core processor with a relatively new graphic card with dedicated 256MB of graphic memory. The system requires at least 2 GB RAM, and this being a DirectX 10 game, Windows Vista is recommended. The game runs well on HD 3850 with 4GB of RAM. Of course this is a high end system, but the game is played on full 1600 HD resolution with all settings turned to
high.
The Criticisms
The game has a few shortcomings, but they are also quiet irritating ones. For instance the cut scenes are long and cannot be skipped; on the other hand most of the ambient sounds are repetitive. After playing the assassination missions, the investigations are also repetitive.

The Recommendations
The PC version of Assassin's Creed isn't the superior one. If you don't have the opportunity to play it on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, you should pick up a copy and immerse yourself in its memorable world. It's the kind of game you want to show your friends even if they're not into games, and if you have a high-powered computer, it's one that should be in your
collection. My Verdict: 8/10