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Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is a action, combat and stealth game
developed by Ubisoft Montreal
and published by Ubisoft.
Released on April 09th 2008 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 21,897 reviews of which 17,822 were positive and 4,075 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
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- Supported OS: Windows® XP/Windows Vista® (only)
- Processor: Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel® Pentium® D or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)
- System Memory: Windows XP: 1 GB RAM / Windows Vista: 2 GB RAM
- Video Card: 256 MB DirectX® 10.0-compliant video card or DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (*see supported list)
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0-compliant sound card (5.1 sound card recommended)
- DirectX Version: Direct X 9.0 (Windows XP) or 10.0 (Windows Vista) libraries
- Hard Disk: 8 GB available hard disk space
- Supported Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)
- *Supported video cards at time of release: ATI® RADEON® X1600** /1650**- 1950/ HD 2000/3000 series, NVIDIA GeForce® 6800**/7/8/9 series. **PCI Express only supported. Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT supported. These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. For the most up-to-date requirements, please visit the FAQ for this game at: .
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tl;dr A series classic, "pilot episode" or "AC2 beta version", with interesting story, but can feel very dated with many issues compared to anything later in the series, after all, this game was originally released in 2008, so I would only recommend this game only if you are big fans of AC series, or big fans or old (or clunky) games in general. I have finished the whole story in one day, took around 10 hours total. Completionist can take around 20 - 25 hrs total (with story included), but it is incredibly boring in my opinion, I do not recommend unless you like collecting 100s of collectibles around the map(s). --- Game breaking issue Before I continue with my other issues and praises, there is one big game (immersion) breaking issue with possible workarounds. What is happening? - every minute or two, there are 5 seconds freezes, this is super annoying and borderline unplayable. This is happening because the game is apparently trying to connect to old Ubisoft servers that are no longer available - Why does it do it? I have no idea, it is stupid, but i would suspect it is some kind of old DRM that was not patched over the years (no surprise there). How to fix this? you need to either: - turn off your internet or - add IPs of those old servers into your hosts file on your system, to redirect them to your local machine (localhost) steps to add the IPs to hosts file on Windows: - open notepad as administrator - open hosts file: C:\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (or wherever it might be on your system) - add these two lines at the bottom and don't forget to save after: 203.132.26.155 localhost 216.98.50.240 localhost Played this on Windows 11 25H2, and this fix worked flawlessly, not a single freeze nor crash, and I have tried modding it via nexus mods adding the "no lag" mod, but it did not solve it, only the two above mentioned fixes did so. --- Few other, lesser issues and my opinions everything feels clunky, the UI, the movement, the camera, only exception is controls, those were fine, apart of combat, that sucked ass, especially with many enemies around, but still manageable, you would get used to the controls pretty quickly. The parkour and climbing in general were fine, good enough in my opinion, and I did not expect much, but also was surprised how relatively good it was for such old game. The world was designed good enough, but everything felt very repetitive, all cities felt the same, with very minor differences. The quests and overall story felt super repetitive and predictable, and kinda underwhelming. Horse riding sucked ass, but thank god there was some form of fast travel (i recommend using it always when it shows). I can imagine the UI must have felt "innovative" at the time, but the functionality was,, meh, but at least it looked pretty and very thematic. (Seriously, why the hell were there like 4 "exits" needed in the menus to fully quit the game?!). Story spoilers below: The absolute ending was a bit,, weird to me, as it just left me in the modern-era room, with no significant hints apart the Eagle vision turning on once, and then left you like that, until you had to figure out that you need to view the room(s) with it, and only when you viewed your bedroom with it, the story finally ended and showed you credits. Must felt super confusing back in the day as well I can imagine lol. Apart of this ending, the final few combats, felt super ♥♥♥♥♥♥, like they just threw at you more and more enemies, and that was the whole thing, felt super lazy, apart the fight with the Assassins leader (forgot his name sorry), that felt a little bit "innovative" with the hide-and-seek mechanic. --- Final thoughts? Overall, I would rate this 5 / 10, with the bias of playing this in 2026, where there are just better thing to play. I have played this just because I am fan of the series, and want to play all the AC games, and never played AC1 somehow, and wanted to see how it compares to newer AC games like Origins and such. I must say, it felt better than for example Valhalla (which I still did not finish), felt like it has soul, and also it did not crash a single time! (take notes Valhalla, ffs) Why so long review on such old game? I like to write reviews, and I am just practicing writing my thoughts in some more coherent way. Thank you for reading!
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Game is Peak and makes me feel the Nostalagia but this Game having Freeze issue so i found the solution here. Download this manual file from https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreed/mods/81 extract the zip file in which you will get two applications : assasincreed_Dx9 assasincreed_dx10 copy this two file and paste it to here (replace) C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Assassins Creed then just play and enjoy
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Before Ezio, before fancy gadgets, before social stealth actually worked — there was Altair: the original parkour philosopher. This man jumps off towers like gravity’s optional, delivers one-liners colder than his sword, and somehow manages to look cool in 2007 graphics. Yeah, the missions get a bit repetitive, but back then we didn’t care — we were too busy losing our minds over “Wait… the Animus???” and “WHAT IS THIS STORY???” Altair walked so Ezio could stylishly run across rooftops. It’s clunky, it’s iconic, it’s pure history. Would desync for old times’ sake.
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For anyone want to try the game nowtoday without any issue, you have to install mod to fix the freezing game and a support boderless window if you need, i'll leave the link below and you guys really should try, it's really good although it release 18 years ago. -Fixing freezing screen: https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreed/mods/81 -Boderless fullscreen and some issue: https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreed/mods/118 +) Ultimate ASI Loader: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/tag/v9.0.0 ( use with upper mod) -If you meet the haystack bug let you die when you do the leap of faith, it's a bug when your fps is too high +) Turn on the vsync +) Limit your fps down to 60
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Amazing game, but make sure to turn off your internet, limit you fps to 60, and make sure V-Sync is on, otherwise the game will freeze every minute or so and you will die when performing a leap of faith, and you might encounter other bugs I am unaware of, but if you did the things I said the game will run great.
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Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition received 17,822 positive votes out of a total of 21,897 achieving a rating of 7.98.
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Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is not playable on MacOS.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is not playable on Linux.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is a single-player game.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition does not currently offer any DLC.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.
Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Ubisoft Montreal
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Ubisoft
Release
09 Apr 2008
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