the honest truth is that this wouldn't really be bad by any means if it was released on a system that had better capabilities. unfortunately though, the controls really hamper the game, in addition to the very sluggish performance.

aside from that, the game is a nice little linear assassin's creed game that fills the gap between ac1 and the codex pages in ac2. i was impressed by the segments of altair writing his thoughts down until i learned that they were just some selected codex pages in verbatum, but the voice acting for altair is honestly still more "accurate" to how i would imagine him sounding than ac1.

regardless, i found myself enjoying the linear approach this game had over the ridiculous amount of lame side content brotherhood had, for example.

still, i can't really justify rating this any higher based on the limitations of the hardware, unfortunately.