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Upon closer inspection, however, it suffers from some control and content issues that hold it back from feeling complete.īloodlines continues the story of Assassin's Creed exactly where the first game left off. The result is a valiant effort - a product that, at a glance, looks and feels like the console versions of the game. Assassin's Creed Bloodlines attempts to recreate the look and feel of the first game, while bridging tidbits of the story before the events of Assassin's Creed II.
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So while the story and graphics are impressive, when it comes to the killer blow the blade isn't as honed as it could be.Having experienced great success with the first Assassin's Creed on consoles, Ubisoft is turning the series into a full blown franchise with installments on every gaming device known to man, including the PSP. Any activity repeated too often, even bloody assassination it seems, becomes stale over time. Such technicalities aside, though, the main issue with Assassins Creed: Bloodlines is its repetitive gameplay. Sometimes, in combat sequences, you'll probably find yourself presented with a not-so-helpful close-up of a wall. The camera can be pitched and swung by holding the L Shoulder button but this option is only available when standing still. Without an additional analogue stick to control the camera angle, it can be difficult to see where you're going, particularly when free running.
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It's here where the PSP itself becomes restrictive. There's good clean fun to be had brutally assassinating multiple enemies before leaping to the safety of the rooftops, that is until you encounter the occasional camera failings. Still, for what it lacks in subtlety, Bloodline certainly makes up for with muscular action. Rather than tiptoeing around, it's often far easier to simply murder everybody in the level and then walk unchallenged over their still warm corpses. Objectives that require this approach are few and far between. More surprisingly perhaps, stealth, while present in the game, is almost entirely unnecessary. Once you've got used to timing perfect combos and one-hit kills, the game presents little challenge. This gratuitous violence is fun initially, but it quickly becomes repetitive. Much of your time is therefore spent racking up your kill count up as you methodically butcher every guard who crosses your path - surprising considering the second rule of the Assassin's Creed is to be discreet about your work. This repetition is particularly clear towards the end of the game, where there's no disguising the 'go here, kill this guy' theme. These brief interludes do little to detract from the lack of variation in the set objectives, however. Missions are broken up by cut-scenes featuring the captured Templar Maria and occasional bizarre ramblings from Altair on the nature of man Dig under the surface and it quickly becomes clear that the gameplay fails to match up.įor example, you begin your quest in the port of Limasol, becoming a frontline figure in the resistance against the Templar oppressors. Visuals aside, though, Bloodlines demonstrates a certain shallowness. To that extent, Bloodlines is a technical triumph. By far the best feature of the game is your ability to seamlessly run, jump, vault and clamber over pretty much everything you can see. Indeed, looking out over the two cities you play though, the winding dusty streets and Mediterranean rooftops just demand to be climbed. Of course, the graphical eye candy on display means that, at a glance, Bloodlines seems like a ported version of one of the console titles - the wide panning camera shots and death defying leaps are nothing short of spectacular.
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Location-wise, the action is shifted to Cyprus, with Altair hot on the heels of the Templar commander Armand Bouchard in a quest to locate the Templar archive and the mysterious Apple of Eden. Rich in historic details as you'd expect, the story kicks off immediately after the events of the first game.
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They say beauty's only skin deep, and nowhere is this more evident than the latest game in the Assassin's Creed series, Bloodlines.