Parents need to know that this game's protagonist is a righteous assassin who kills anyone who gets in his way as he carries out what appears to be a just and important mission. The sword-based combat is bloodless but still quite brutal thanks to the game's impressive 3-D graphics and character animations. You will see your character forcefully plunge a blade into a foe's chest. Plus, you are occasionally instructed to stealthily attack enemies from behind, giving the violence a murderous twinge. The game's events are framed within the context of the Third Crusade, and a basic overview of the conflict that raged between the Crusaders and the Saracens is provided. However, the story stops short of providing a proper history lesson, electing instead to focus on the concocted mythology of the Assassin's Creed universe.
Educational value:The game has an historical setting -- 1190, during the Third Crusade -- and provides a cursory overview of the conflict that at the time was engulfing the Holy Land.
Positive messages:Your character is presented as a good guy, but he is also an assassin. The morality is gray at best. One of the minigames has you acting as a pickpocket.
Violence:You play as an assassin, and in that capacity you'll kill countless enemies with your sword. There is no blood or gore, but the animations can be surprisingly vicious. For example: upon knocking an enemy to the ground, Altaïr often spins and forcefully plunges his blade into his foe's chest. Plus, you are occasionally instructed to stealthily attack enemies from behind, giving the violence a murderous twinge. One of the mini-games is about torture where you interrogate enemies by touching pressure points on a drawing of a human back.
If you get Assassin's Creed you should either get it for thee exbox 360 or the ps3 you should not get this game for the nintendo ds.The ds does not have great graphics at all.Anyway its a really intense stealth type game incredible action i loved it. Get this game!
A light Teen. The game is not that bad. You cannot kill innocents, your enemies are evil and kill and threaten innocents and women.
You fight for the side of justice and help protect a women.
i really like it, but this review is only for the itouch version you are supposed to kill people, but only a little blood is seen. even though you are a good guy, your charachter is a pickpocket, a theif, and an assassain, which mans he is a really bad role model. if you are not sure, let you kids download the lite version.
assassin creed for ds is a bad game. do not buy this game. the violence is not bad at all. assassin creed for ps3/xbox/pc is way better. overall it is a bad game
This game is not bad, in the sense of violence. The game itself is bad, trying to be a free roaming game on the DS which doesn't work, although I've heard that Assassins Creed II Discovery on DS is good but I have yet to try it