If you really wanted to you can do two familiar side missions in each area, rescuing people from the Templars in the streets or killing someone for a random person. Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines has nothing interesting going on outside the story to keep you away from it, though you will wish there is. The game will only run about 4-5 hours but that’s if you take your time. Oh I forgot, there is some green in there. On top of that enemies are just as predictable as the first game so they are easy to beat to begin with. All you have to do it hit any non boss four times with your upgraded weapon and they will die, no matter what. Most of the time you’ll end up being spotted for the most ridiculous reasons, so you better get used to four button presses per enemy… yeah it’s that easy. Speaking of slaughtering, that will be what you spend most of your time doing, the enemy guards are incredibly easy.

The game requires absolutely no stealth as you can easily slaughter every guard on the way to your objective faster than you can hop across the buildings. You will either be stalking people, interrogating people, or killing people, neither of them are any fun though. Any story elements boil down to similar sounding conversations leading to similar mission types. The story is only mildly interesting if at all. You will be hunting down and killing the remaining generals one by one across a few similar looking locations. The story takes place after the first game with Altair now going after the remaining Templars in Cyprus. Bloodlines offers nothing new but portability and takes away almost everything that made the first game fun at all. Now it seems like Griptonite Games is taking the franchise in a direction it didn’t need to go, backward. Though Assassin’s Creed was successful if repetitive on the PS3, 360, and PC, it was far from perfect. The odds are stacked against you Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines.

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