Assassin’s Creed Identity for Android

Assassin’s Creed Identity, which became the flagship of the cult series, gamers waited with bated breath.

Ubisoft promised to implement in their creation such chips that previously seemed like something impossible. Did the French developer keep his word, or did the players have to be content with what they got? Our Assassin’s Creed Identity review will help answer this question.

Initially, Assassin’s Creed Identity positioned itself as a 3rd person Action with a developed battle system, as well as parkour (perhaps, it was climbing on the roofs that most players expected). However, when the game was released, it became clear that the product has a slightly different genre than it was imagined – “virtual tourism” – the exploration of territories with the passing of various quests.

A distinctive feature of the gameplay is that you have to play not for an ordinary hero who is trying to rise from rags to riches, but for an assassin – a professional killer for whom it will not be difficult to figure out the target in flight, and then mix with the crowd. This has not been seen in any other series, so the game from Ubisoft was expected in all countries.

It is important to note that the French developer decided to start creating a new product on a fundamentally new graphics engine. Because of this, even at the release stage, it seemed to gamers that the visual component of the game was one of its greatest strengths. People and cities from the trailers looked so beautiful that at first it was hard to believe that it was shooting a computer game.

True, it should be noted that the know-how in the form of a new graphics engine has become a mutually sharp blade for Ubisoft – Assassin’s Creed Identification on the PC lagged a lot. Even the owners of modern cars had performance problems – constant crashes, FPS drops, and textures that didn’t load. Fortunately, all the shortcomings were quickly corrected with patches. Now the system requirements for Assassins Creed seem ridiculous.

The story of the main character of the game Desmond – an ordinary bartender kidnapped by the Abstergo corporation, immediately liked the potential players of Assassin’s Creed Identity. The protagonist had to study memory using a special machine – the animus. It allowed you to look at the past through the eyes of an ancestor, but the player just had to control this very ancestor. The main task of the Abstergo company was to search for an artifact left by an ancient civilization – the Apple of Eden. Altair (Desmond’s ancestor) was the last to hold him. Therefore, in order to understand what happened to the artifact, the main character had to live the story of his ancestor and find out what he did with the relic.

Features

• A large-scale universe, built according to the patterns of the world of Assassin’s Creed 2;
• An unpretentious, but large-scale storyline with details about local political leaders and the organization “Crows”, which wants to deal with all the Assassins once and for all. In addition to the characters, a detailed briefing is also provided with tips about the situation around, selected targets or impending trials;
• The passage of the story is possible both in splendid isolation, and with the help of friends invited through the multiplayer menu;
• The characteristic tricks of the “hidden killer” have not disappeared anywhere. The character is able to jump over obstacles, knows how to climb almost sheer walls and easily wields any melee weapon that falls into his hand. Elements of parkour, as in the rest of the series, will help you move around the map faster and facilitate the process of tracking down victims;
• Game Assassin Creed Identity does not tolerate those who are unable to plan a murder. It is worth choosing the wrong or too arrogant route and the hero will have to immediately meet with the mercenaries and guards. Any mistake and you will have to start the mission anew, and you can only dream of additional rewards;
  – Elements of role-based development allow you to change equipment, improve individual characteristics and change equipment, like gloves.

Adversarial Mechanics

Assassin’s Creed Identity walkthrough focuses primarily on getting rid of targets that are randomly selected in accordance with the storyline. In some situations, you will have to deal with mercenaries armed from head to toe, in others – to hunt down local merchants or politicians, surrounded by a security guard and interested only in money and power, but not in the lives of civilians.

Regardless of the context, each time you have to act approximately the same: first, tracking down the target (the corresponding mark appears on the radar and map), then an attempt to secretly get close to the enemy, using parkour and moving on roofs, or passers-by, forming a crowd of ragamuffins, in which it is easy get lost to the murderer with the hood on his head. After preparation, it remains to lunge and, driving the blade into the lung or heart, escape from the scene of the crime without raising an alarm.

And, if at the start of the game Assassin’s Creed Identification allows you to almost accurately achieve the assigned tasks, then by the 7-10th mission everything will change. There will be more guards, vigilant archers will occupy the roofs, and secondary tests will be added to the main tests, forcing not to raise the alarm, not to kill anyone, or to cope within a limited period of time. And, if you really wanted to become a real champion, then some tests will have to be replayed dozens of times.

Ambience and decoration

The events in Assassin’s Creed Identity take place during the Renaissance – the developers almost immediately offer an overview of local attractions and remind of the political situation around. They say that the war is being waged cold, the government is replaced every week, and bribes have not bothered anyone for a long time. The main character will have to reconnoiter the situation and return power to those who are able to provide the people with a suitable fate.

Outside of the plot, the universe resembles the world from the second part of the series – the same low Italian houses, sloping roofs with orange tiles, observation posts of local guards, and towers that adorn the walls of a stone fortress. The developers have not forgotten about other elements of the environment, such as haystacks, where you can jump using the proprietary “leap of faith”, lamp posts, boxes and passages that allow you to move not on the ground, but on roofs and ceilings.

Corresponds to the era and equipment – the main character from time to time fits a merchant or a monk, hiding in the hem of a multi-colored robe and a blade, and a sword, and a couple of consumables. The equipment does not open immediately – many things are unavailable until a certain part of the plot has been completed or – secondary tasks of increased complexity have not been completed.