It was long time since i did Assassin's Creed marathon (aka Creedathon) and i missed old school AC formula so i decided to play all AC games from AC1 to Odyssey throughout this year. So decided to share my progress here on Era. Don't worry i won't post something every few hours, i will usually post my mini impressions after each game. But i will make exception for this first post.
I started playing AC1 few days ago and i reached Memory 3 where i did first assassination. Because AC1 is only mainline AC game that i played and that i didn't finish it 100% i will do it this time. So far i did full sync for main memory missions but not additional stuff like flags. And i must say that i appreciate AC1 more now when i took time to do all investigation missions and read all memory entries. Investigations before assassination was great concept that was ruined with repeating tasks (even thou there is a lot more variety than i remember). Whole process of getting to know your target is awesome and with few tweaks and improvements it could be great. Unfortunately Ubisoft abandoned it up until Unity and Syndicate where they brought it back in simplified form of special assassination opportunities. And they did something that kinda looks like that in Origins but not really the same.
Second thing that i noticed is that since AC1 they nailed atmosphere of the cities. Walking around Damascus and Acre is still amazing experience. I can't say the same for Kingdom (place between cities) unfortunately.
Other interesting thing in AC1 is combat. Mechanically it has almost the same elements like AC Origins. You have Dodge, Deflect, Counter, Light Attack, Heavy Attack, Combo Attack,Grab, Counter Grab. But big difference is enemy AI. Even though you can do significant amount of movement combinations AI is too simple for them so you end up using same moves just to be don with fight.
There are annoying thing too like mandatory (if you don't want to fight) slow blend walk in Kingdom section, save citizen missions are literally the same, even some dialogue repeats, flags...
But i still like this game and big reason are dialogues with Al Mulaim and targets after you assassinate them. It is much better than in some later games. And another interesting thing regarding missions is that you can start target investigation as soon as you enter the town without visiting Assassin's Bureau first and you can do them in any order (also only 2 are mandatory for getting green light for assassination). I also like how AC1 had something between compass and mini-map.
That is it for now. Also here are few screenshots :D
I started playing AC1 few days ago and i reached Memory 3 where i did first assassination. Because AC1 is only mainline AC game that i played and that i didn't finish it 100% i will do it this time. So far i did full sync for main memory missions but not additional stuff like flags. And i must say that i appreciate AC1 more now when i took time to do all investigation missions and read all memory entries. Investigations before assassination was great concept that was ruined with repeating tasks (even thou there is a lot more variety than i remember). Whole process of getting to know your target is awesome and with few tweaks and improvements it could be great. Unfortunately Ubisoft abandoned it up until Unity and Syndicate where they brought it back in simplified form of special assassination opportunities. And they did something that kinda looks like that in Origins but not really the same.
Second thing that i noticed is that since AC1 they nailed atmosphere of the cities. Walking around Damascus and Acre is still amazing experience. I can't say the same for Kingdom (place between cities) unfortunately.
Other interesting thing in AC1 is combat. Mechanically it has almost the same elements like AC Origins. You have Dodge, Deflect, Counter, Light Attack, Heavy Attack, Combo Attack,Grab, Counter Grab. But big difference is enemy AI. Even though you can do significant amount of movement combinations AI is too simple for them so you end up using same moves just to be don with fight.
There are annoying thing too like mandatory (if you don't want to fight) slow blend walk in Kingdom section, save citizen missions are literally the same, even some dialogue repeats, flags...
But i still like this game and big reason are dialogues with Al Mulaim and targets after you assassinate them. It is much better than in some later games. And another interesting thing regarding missions is that you can start target investigation as soon as you enter the town without visiting Assassin's Bureau first and you can do them in any order (also only 2 are mandatory for getting green light for assassination). I also like how AC1 had something between compass and mini-map.
That is it for now. Also here are few screenshots :D
