Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced…
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 8 April 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition is
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2008. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Havok.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Desmond Miles, a bartender, is kidnapped by the company Abstergo Industries for use as a test subject in the "Animus," a device that can simulate genetic memory. Abstergo intends to put Desmond in the device to recall the memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, a member of the Assassin Brotherhood in the year 1191, who lived during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. Initially, Desmond has trouble adjusting to the device, but eventually relives Altaïr's exploits over the next several days. The game then primarily changes to Altaïr's point-of-view, with occasional transitions to Desmond, due to problems with the Animus or onset of the Bleeding Effect. The game opens with Desmond…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition is the fifth of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed II Mobile in 2009. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.
How it was received
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 98 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 32 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended) and 256 MB DirectX® 10.0-compliant video card or DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (*see supported list).
What it launched against
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition launched on 8 April 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Mario Kart Wii. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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