I was so excited for this game after hearing that the graphics were amazing. I got a new TV Friday (parents upgraded 3 of our TV's) so now I have a 32in LCD instead of a 23in LCD and I was anxious to play Xbox on it because of the amazing picture. I was like...omg Assassins Creed (just like that) and was sick and asked my mom to go to Blockbuster to rent it, but they didn't have it. So anyway fast forward to like 2 hours later: I get the Limited Edition (they didn't have regular) and bring it home, pop it right in. Intro movie looks AMAZING and I have my parents come watch it and I'm just like wow that is great. First play the game, damn nice graphics. But unfortunately that is where the game ends. I've now done I think 3 assassinations and it's just getting kind of boring. You do the exact same thing, and while that's the same in other games (shoot people, just with different scenery) it is just different. You have all of these things you can do (save people, pickpocket, etc.) but really it doesn't matter. You only have to collect 1 or 2 pieces of information (so far) to find your target, and on top of that the fight scenes just get repetitive and aren't that hard (counter attack over and over, or xx combos.) Whatever. On top of that it's unlike Hitman in where Hitman required a level of stealth, where as this game you can still bump in to whoever and as long as you don't like kill someone in front of a guard it doesn't matter. But if you do it's no challenge to just defeat the few guards that attack you.
I hope in the later levels this game becomes more of a challenge and more fun, but so far it's just a beautiful drawn out set of repetitious actions.
