8.5 • While this game has, mechanically speaking, aged terribly, it cannot possibly be understated how great it was for the time and how much it influenced gaming in general, serving as the blueprint nearly every open-world game soon copied. The gameplay has become quite clunky, unresponsive and boring, but until a remake is released, it remains a must-play for any Assassin's Creed fan, containing possibly the best narrative of them all and starting a trilogy that will forever be remembered as this series' golden age.