"Pirated it as a kid when you couldn't even buy this game in India even if you wanted to.
Finally bought it years later. Loved it back then even though it was repetitive."


Best way to play:
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Mute the whole game, pick up an audio-book and listen to it while playing this game. It's the best way to make sure you don't feel like you're wasting your time with unskippable worthless missions and long dialogues.

What's fun:
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Plotting your way to kill enemies, be it the boss or a smaller enemy is quite fun and getting chased by them trying to bump into other NPCs is quite fun and challenging since the controls are $h!t. But that's the only fun part of this game.
Everything else, is not.

Performance and Graphics:
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Very low system requirements so easy to get into in the first AC game and apart from a few initial gray levels, the other levels are quite colorful.


Controls:
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The controls can be jerky at times where you will see yourself trying to hang of small stair in the streets and accidentally jumping in the wrong direction whether you're on mouse and keyboard or Game-pad alike.
It's personally recommended that you play on a Game-pad not because it plays better or anything but after a while you will not be bothered what's going in the game as it will take you through unskippable long cut-scenes and other worthless trailing missions and you will wonder why do I have my hand in battle position at all.

Achievements
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No achievements on steam.

The bad
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Play this game to see how Ubisoft started with the repetition formula and trailing missions.
Even in the first game, there are so-so many repetitive pick-pocket mission, investigation mission and other forms of trailing missions.
Instead of a making a shorter game with original content they decided to go with the complete repetition formula.

On top of that the fact that there are 100 flags or more for many cities, just makes you don't even want to try to complete the game to it's fullest.

The cut scenes are just cut scenes, just because I can move in a 1 foot square, doesn't mean it's no more a cut scene.

The parkour controls are horrible, you will often find yourself jumping in the wrong direction, hanging off a half-foot stair and accidentally dropping from places hoping you don't die.

I do understand that this game made a huge effort in coming from Prince of Persia Series and a lot of new things were added but the fact that they just put so much effort in artificially lengthening the game than what it should have been makes it a very difficult recommendation to anyone.