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Assassin's Creed PC Preview

Apr 01, 2008 2:43pm CST tags: Assassins Creed: Directors Cut Edition, Preview, Assassins Creed
I wasn't crazy about Assassin's Creed when it hit consoles last year. Now Ubisoft is trying to win me over a second time with the PC port, offering a set of extra missions to bolster the original game's content. Are they enough? And what about those insane system requirements? I took the game for a long spin, and spit out some words.
Rather than forcing bench-sitting as a prerequisite to murder, the designers have now allowed you to complete several other, less tedious challenges that fulfill the same function. Players will have the choice of participating in timed rooftop races, archer assassinations, merchant stand destruction, and escort challenges, in addition to the five previous tasks. All are fairly self-descriptive, and all serve to infuse the investigatory intermissions with some much-needed life, by way of additional death. Read more..