Great game that unfortunately did not age very well. The gameplay is quite outdated and repetitive, though the story still stands strong. If you are new to the franchise, I suggest you skip the first entry and watch a story recap on YouTube. Play this one if you are a fan of a franchise and want to see how it all began.

The original Assassin's Creed has a fairly barebones gameplay loop, utterly uninspired collectible flags strewn about, and an honest to god horrible sound quality - everything sounds compressed and like they were making a trade-off between visuals and audio, except the visuals are also lackluster, but decent for 2008. Despite these issues, the core of what would be future games is already here, and the story is interesting enough to follow if you care about historical set pieces or philosophical debate. Its successor outshines it by every metric, and if any of the Assassin's Creed games deserved a remaster it was this one. Nevertheless it works and it's fun, but if you're thinking "gee what are these old AC games all about" I'd just play 2.

Awful PC port. No idea how this was approved. Keybinds make no sense, freezes every minute or so, cannot connect any controller with ease, and even if you could, have fun learning the controls with the dumb symbols that are in place. Just remake it already.