Literally broken in every respect without a single redeeming feature. Never, ever play this.
The graphics, while trying their best to be detailed for an early DS game, are just low resolution and muddy, making it pretty horrible to look at. Models disappear into a mass of pixels and polygons, and animations are stiff and more often than not, don't play correctly.
The controls are the part that completely break the game, they are horrendous. Complete horseshit. There's occaisonal input delay, jump strength is near impossible to control, everything that can break will break and turn almost every single instance of platforming into a nightmare of instability and cursing as Altair does the exact opposite of what you told him to do for the 13 millionth time.
The combat is no better, being an unsatisfying and inconsistent button masher. The game suggests you can hold R to walk and assassinate people - you know, like you'd expect from Assassin's Creed? But no, this only works on very specific enemies at scripted sequences in the game, so that's a complete lie. I'm serious, if you try it on an enemy that isn't scripted to be assassinated, they'll just gain psychic powers and turn around.
The combat also has a counter mechanic, but ever y enemy past the first hour or so is completely immune, so don't even try. The only way through is to spam combos that knock enemies down, but the ones with red helmets are immune to this until another combo you unlock in the final hour or so.
Add in terrible music, boring story and glitches as far as the brain can comprehend, as well as some dumb gimmicky touchscreen and microphone usage that's totally half-baked, and you have what I consider to be one of the worst videogames ever made. I'm dead serious.
The graphics, while trying their best to be detailed for an early DS game, are just low resolution and muddy, making it pretty horrible to look at. Models disappear into a mass of pixels and polygons, and animations are stiff and more often than not, don't play correctly.
The controls are the part that completely break the game, they are horrendous. Complete horseshit. There's occaisonal input delay, jump strength is near impossible to control, everything that can break will break and turn almost every single instance of platforming into a nightmare of instability and cursing as Altair does the exact opposite of what you told him to do for the 13 millionth time.
The combat is no better, being an unsatisfying and inconsistent button masher. The game suggests you can hold R to walk and assassinate people - you know, like you'd expect from Assassin's Creed? But no, this only works on very specific enemies at scripted sequences in the game, so that's a complete lie. I'm serious, if you try it on an enemy that isn't scripted to be assassinated, they'll just gain psychic powers and turn around.
The combat also has a counter mechanic, but ever y enemy past the first hour or so is completely immune, so don't even try. The only way through is to spam combos that knock enemies down, but the ones with red helmets are immune to this until another combo you unlock in the final hour or so.
Add in terrible music, boring story and glitches as far as the brain can comprehend, as well as some dumb gimmicky touchscreen and microphone usage that's totally half-baked, and you have what I consider to be one of the worst videogames ever made. I'm dead serious.