Assassin's Creed (Director's Cut Edition) (Windows)

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Description

The Director's Cut Edition is the Windows release of Assassin's Creed.

While the core gameplay remains the same as in the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, the Director's Cut Edition features some additions and improvements besides the more detailed graphics (including DirectX 10 support). The most noticeable additions are the four new informant missions which increases the total to nine available missions for each assassination. The four new ones are:

• Roof Chase - once Altaïr has met up with an informant, he sends him to a second one which he needs to reach before the time runs out.


• Kill the Archers - Altaïr needs to take out all the archers on the roofs in a defined zone silently so that the other assassins can move on with their own missions.


• Destroy the Market Stands - as the name suggest, Altaïr needs to destroy a predefined number of market stands but will encounter heavy resistance from the marketeers.


• Escort - a fellow member of the brotherhood has stolen something very valuable and now the guards are chasing him. Altaïr needs to escort him safely out of the city.

Other changes include an improved artificial intelligence and a comfort function which allows Altaïr to port himself directly from the home of the brotherhood (Masyaf) to a city of his choosing provided he already visited it before. In the console releases Altaïr always had to ride through the kingdom to return to a already visited city.

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Alternate Titles

• "刺客教條 (導演豪華版)" -- Taiwan title
• "Assassin's Creed (Wersja Reżyserska)" -- Polish title
• "Assassin's Creed: Versão do Diretor" -- Brazilian title
• "Assassin's Creed (Director's Cut)" -- GOG title

Part of the Following Groups

• Assassin's Creed series
• Covermount: Fullgames
• Setting: City - Jerusalem
• Setting: Middle East
• Technology: amBX

User Reviews

Okay, we've got the playground. Now all we need is a game...	Unicorn Lynx (181723)
Nothing's what it seems	NeoJ (455)
Almost Famous.	dreamstealer (146)
Gorgeous game, but could've been MUCH better, it could've been a legend	Furiel kay (4)

Critic Reviews

HardGamers	Apr 30, 2008	90 out of 100	90
Game Informer Magazine	2008	9 out of 10	90
Gameplay (Benelux)	Mar 27, 2008	89 out of 100	89
Gameguru Mania	May 11, 2008	85 out of 100	85
Gamer.nl	Apr 15, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Gamekult	Apr 11, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Worth Playing	Apr 16, 2008	8 out of 10	80
ActionTrip	Apr 14, 2008	7.8 out of 10	78
Total PC Gaming	Apr 11, 2008	7.6 out of 10	76
FiringSquad	Apr 28, 2008	71 out of 100	71

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Innovative controls	2	St. Martyne (3655) May 16, 2009

Trivia

Lawsuit

In August 2008 Ubisoft announced to have filed a lawsuit against the company it hired to reproduce discs for the PC edition of Assassin's Creed, as an OEM copy was used to make the game available online illegally six weeks prior to the release date.

References to the game

Assassin's Creed (Director's Cut Edition) was parodied in an episode of "Die Redaktion" (The Editorial Team), a monthly comedy video produced by the German gaming magazine GameStar. It was published on the DVD of issue 06/2008.