PlayStation Portable
Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
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| Reviewer: ManVSCliff | Date: May 29, 2024 |
| Assassins Creed: Bloodlines, the incredibly impressive spin-off of the main series for the Sony PSP. It's wonderful. Everything was put together how a traditional AC game would be. It has great gameplay and is definitely worth playing through, however there is always room for improvement. AC: Bloodlines is no exception.
Graphics: 9 While the graphics are great and they converted Assassins Creed to a portable title very well, they could have done a little more. Adding some more NPCs in the street would make the world feel less like a gloomy wasteland, and more like a normal city. The models are perfect. They really can't go higher poly with an open-world on the PSP, and the framerate is perfect. No dips at all, solid 30 fps the entire game, and the animations are very natural. There may be 1 or 2 janky ones but that's an incredibly small number. I wouldn't be surprised if they just took the rigs from AC: 1 and slapped them into here, it's that good. Sound: 7 The audio is VERY compressed. If you took the original Assassin's Creed soundtrack and put it in the dryer overnight, you would find Assassins Creed: Bloodlines audio in the morning. It still sounds good, but its very obvious it has lower quality compared to a mountain of other titles on the PSP. Otherwise there are no problems with it. The correct sounds play when they're supposed to, and the voice acting is pretty great as well. Gameplay: 9 It perfectly mirrored an Assassin's Creed game on the Portable. Its only flaw is the camera controls are a bit funky due to the lack of a second stick. Other than that it includes all the things you could do in the main console titles. You can parry attacks, beat up citizens without getting penalized for killing them, free-run on the rooftops, and beat the campaign. It also introduced Templar Coin collectibles which you can find throughout the game world. You can use them to unlock upgrades for Altair, such as stronger attacks, faster health regeneration, automatically blocking enemies attacks, and faster disappearing from the Templars line of sight. It also had boss battles at the end of every memory segment. These bosses wouldn't hurt a fly, the fly would hurt them. They are so stupidly easy to beat it's not even funny. You can completely negate the last boss by running in circles to heal. Each and every boss is like a Templar reject they sent to the Island so they wouldn't have to look at them. So if you want a challenge, I suggest wearing a blindfold. Overall: 9 The Graphics, Sounds, and Gameplay, all have their ups and downs. But thankfully, unlike the DS Assassins Creed "Games" there were way more good things than bad things. The graphics look similar to Morrowinds and Vice City Stories, the sound could have been worked on a little more but still does what it needs to do, and the gameplay offers you a full Assassins Creed experience. This game easily stands up on it's own, and it's worth adding to your collection if you haven't already. It offers everything a main-line Assassins Creed title would, and you can easily take it on the go, be it with your PSP, Vita, phone, or PC, if you take your PC on the go for some reason. I recommend you play it at least once, so you can add it to the list of games you've beaten, and because it will most likely be a very enjoyable experience. |
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