I remember hearing about this game series/franchise called “Assassin’s Creed” before. They say it was cool, and I even saw the game (AC II, as far as I remember) in action from my classmate’s pc. I was first introduced to this series by the mobile phone versions of the game. I downloaded them all, and all I can say is they’re dull 2d sidescrollers, with the exception of one. The 3d version. It was cool that it works on an ancient phone. Lol. That’s what I thought. So I got a bright idea: “Why not try the PC version, then?”. So I downloaded one of the many iterations of the franchise called Assassin’s Creed: Liberation. Here’s what it looks like:
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Looks Cool.
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Pretty cool, huh? And the best part is the lead is a female! I’m actually fond of playing as females in video games so, this is actually an added bonus for me. 
I don’t know if that’s the same for you, though. Many criticized the game for having a female lead. I mean, what’s the big deal anyway? It’s not a problem unless you’re a woman-hater or a misogynist, in which I have learned that the fanbase consists of these types of people. So basically the lead assassin’s name is Aveline, a French-African(oops, looks like I already know the storyline of this) woman who lives in 18th century New Orleans, when it was still a colony of France, then later transferred rule to the Spanish. It was the time when the blacks were sold as slaves and were discriminated by the whites. Aveline was a semi privileged black, though. It was mainly because of her French descent. Despite being wealthy and wass pretty lucky than her fellow blacks, she joined the Assassin Brotherhood, which is an organization that upholds justice and does things that an Assassin would casually say: “The usual” (assassinations) against their enemy: the Templars. The Templars are basically the bad guys with typical characteristics: corrupt, mysterious, and shady. These guys are typically people that hold political powers, generals, soldiers, and the like. So Aveline’s mission is to kill these guys (duh) And one more thing, the games is presented as a game (a game within a game, a publisher within a publisher lol) by Abstergo, a company that is pro-Templars. They revised Aveline’s story to make her and the Assassin Brotherhood look bad, but hackers aided the player to know the truth by decensoring and showing what really happened.
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Looks pretty neat. She's not only busy with being an Assassin, but being a businesswoman too!
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Let’s go with the graphics. For a 2gb game, it is really worth the download. The scenery, the characters, and the detail. You can even see the character’s freckles in the cutscenes! Seeing these, I wonder if the other Assassin’s Creed games with whopping 7-23gb (the main series) have to offer lol. The HD tag the game claims is worth it. I’ll give it a 9/10
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The gameplay… there are a lot of downsides here. The only things that are good are the combat, the parkour, and the acrobatic movements. But the reaction of the guards is a major letdown. They don’t attack once they see you, the closely examine you. Even in a secluded, heavily-guarded area that simply screams: “NO ENTRY!”, the guards just fail to be guards. They’re like territorial cats lol. The reaction is slow. I mean, what will you do if you see a white, hooded figure complete with a sword, a machete, and a handblade comes close to you? To the guards, “Just stare at them” Lol just hide and they’ll quickly lose interest to you. The “Avoid being detected” missions really makes me laugh. They can see me already, and even if I pull out my blowpipe lugged with poisons, they just don’t give a damn. Until, of course, they realize that I’m an enemy but at that time they’re already dead. XD And one more thing. They also don’t care if one of their comrades died. They’ll even step on the corpse lol. They don’t even get alarmed that there’s an enemy just around there. The chain kill feature is great, though. It’s a time stop that gives you a chance to kill a number of targets (the numbers depend on the weapons), an unbreakable combo chain. Overall, I’ll give it a 6/10
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| Having a clear view on the busy streets :D |
As for the storyline, I’m already halfway through but I still don’t get the gist of it. All I get is that a woman is trying to liberate the black slaves and uplifting their conditions by killing some bad guys. Further than that, I don’t know anymore lol. But jumping from building to building was fun! I’ll give it a 7/10.
So all in all, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation HD is a great graphical game that is really shabby on the inside, with the graphics the only remarkable factor. I really want to dive in to Aveline’s story but, the devs just didn’t cut it. It wasn’t full delivered. Well, the game is just a spin-off, after all. A game that is not part of the main series. But what I can say is this is a game that’s not too good for who want to try out the franchise. It just doesn’t give you the “Assassin” role lol. I’ll give the whole game a 7/10
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