Assassin's Creed PC DVD Game

Not
enough can be said about the living, breathing universe that you'll
inhabit in Assassin's Creed. 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 citizens converse and drunks lie in wait to accost
you. As you wander the streets (and rooftops), you'll push your way
through crowds of women carrying jars on their heads, hear
orators shout political and religious wisdom, and watch town guards
harass innocent victims. Altair has a profound effect on this world,but
the cities are entities all their own, with their own flows and
personalities.

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. In fact, sometimes the shadows
get to be a bit much and may make you think for a moment that there is
artifacting on your screen, when in fact it's a character's head casting
a shadow on his or her own neck. Every object, from scaffolds to
pottery, is textured so finely that you'll feel as if you could reach
out and touch it.

Animations are almost as equally well done.
Altair scales walls, leaps majestically from towers, and engages in
swashbuckling swordfights that would make Errol Flynn proud. And he does
it all with fluid ease, generally moving from one pose to another
without a hitch. Minor characters move with less aplomb, but that's easy
to forgive, considering that the cities are populated with thousands
and thousands of individuals.

Game Features

On a high-powered PC, these elements look even more stunning
than they did on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the splendor comes
with a price: The minimum requirements to play Assassin's Creed are
surprisingly high, particularly where the CPU is concerned (a dual-core
processor is mandatory). On one test PC that runs Crysis at a
respectable frame rate on medium settings, Assassin's Creed slowed to a
crawl at lower settings.


The story that binds it all together rises to the occasion. Actually, there are two related stories in play.


Minimum System Requirements


Recommended System Requirements:

1. Operating System: Windows XP/ Vista
2. Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
3. Memory: 2GB RAM (3GB for Vista)
4. Free Disk Space: 8GB
5. Video Card: Shader Model 3.0 and 512MB RAM (ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT/nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX)
6. Sound Card: DirectX Compatible