In our second big feature this week we look at yet another of the massive games looming to eat your year-end dollars. Assassin's Creed is shaping up to be Ubisoft's finest gaming hour to-date and yours truly was invited out to have a closer look at what to expect as well as to converse with the game's Creative Director, Patrice Desilets. Click here for our massive in-depth look at one 2007's biggest releases and make sure you hit our files section up to see the game in motion for yourself.

It's encoded as UTF-8 and you're probably using the Windows "Western European" encoding.

2nded on the text being odd
<-- Vista, no language packs, region and language all set to Oz

look at one 2007's biggest releases

game of the year,
amirite?

Pity you didn't get to converse with Jade Raymond. Smokin hot.

Edit: Oh, and the game looks awesome too.

I cant wait for this game. Its on my must get list.

That looks damn cool and that chick sounds incredibly hot.

LOL

whilst this game looks very cool and somewhat original in its stylings i have some doubts about its repetitive nature. hopefully my doubts will be dismissed once the game is released.

hmm.. i'm tempted to buy an xbox just to play this game

love all the crusades history shiz

It's coming out on PC as well Strex

Not for a while though, afaik theres not even a date for the PC version yet.

Only thing I'm not liking the look of in this game is the combat, it looks pants. A whole group of opponents will surround you, and as long as you're facing the one that's attacking, you can practically walk into the others without them doing s***. The little cinematic kills look cool, but this game is definitely about the stealth and free-running, not the combat.

Everything else looks rad.

Also, Jade Raymond, the producer:

http://www.modrak.cz/up-images/jade-raymond.jpg

omg a girl!?

I've been following this game for a while since i saw a demo a while back. Can't wait.

Girls can make games now???

No, she used to be a guy.

The price of persia combat is boring and s***, hope this game can produce something better.

^^ Did you see the words I typed, located right above the image?

No, just give me the gist of it.

A whole group of opponents will surround you, and as long as you're facing the one that's attacking, you can practically walk into the others without them doing s***.

Theres a point where realism and realistic behaviour has to give way to gameplay. For example, getting surrounded by 5 guys and being beat the f*** down in a couple of seconds, while realistic, is not going to be a whole lot of fun. But fighting 5 guys and countering their attacks and pulling off badass counterattacks of your own, while they put up just enough resistance to make the whole experience dangerous and satisfying, thats fun.