Problem is, the game is particularly picky about just when you can kill him even if you manage to catch up with him fairly early on as he attempts to slip from your presence, Identity won’t actually let you take the crook down. An early level tasks you with taking out a thief. Mission’s tend to revolve around taking out targets or saving an ally from attack, though Assassin’s Creed Identity dictates how you do it. It’s the action itself, however, where things start to go wrong. It’s a process that borrows heavily from mobile’s free-to-play elite (despite this being a paid release), though in truth it isn’t all too demanding of your time if all you want to do is get to the action. Rather than spending money in the shops on the city’s streets, upgrades are made in a (needlessly complex and often headache-inducing) menu system, when credit accumulated from successful missions can be used to bulk up everything from abilities to weaponry.
The upgrade system has been similarly altered for mobile.
Even the missions are broken down into short and sharp memories with set missions to accomplish – there’s little room given to check out the game’s sights and sounds along the way. It’s an approach that gives the feel of Assassin’s Creed without getting bogged down in the intricacies of the console counterparts. Traversing the game’s array of Italian cities has been simplified compared to the console releases, with climbing walls just a case of running up to them, hopping over barriers pulled off in a similar manner and combat locked off to specific battles rather than part of a free-flowing populous. In short, if you ever needed evidence that Assassin’s Creed just isn’t a game for mobile, this is it. In practice, however, Identity plays like every Assassin’s Creed fan’s nightmare almost all of the aforementioned features are botched, painful, and implemented in an entirely half hearted measure. From the way Identity presents itself – the cities to explore, the haystacks to hide in, the walls to climb and the people to take out – you’d imagine it stands as a rather good fit. The world Assassin’s Creed Identity enters in 2016, however, is one where the IP has shifted into an all action, sandbox-style adventure.
When Ubisoft first dangled Assassin’s Creed in front of us almost a decade ago, the French publisher billed it as a slice ’em and dice ’em stealth game.
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