5 of 5: Purchase

What really sets Assassin’s Creed apart, though, is how universal it is. It takes a lot to craft a single-player game that can captivate a room, but Ubisoft Montreal has done that here. Watching another person control Altaïr is like watching a movie. Everything is cinematic and alive. Citizens beg for money, guards harass random townspeople, political activists preach from a box set up in the town square, and you’re there to witness it all. It’s only when a mission respawns after failure that you’re yanked back from experience to game, and that’s the worst remark I can give Assassin’s Creed: it occasionally feels like a game instead of an interactive novel.

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