Is Assassin's Creed for PC worth purchasing?, Questions for people who've played it Options

[Wounded Ronin]

I've been considering buying Assassin's Creed for PC. However, since it's still not reached the point where I can buy a secondhand copy from Amazon.com for ~$10, I think I'd like to ask peoples' opinions before buying. I recently felt like I got super burned on Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter which was nothing like the original Ghost Recon which I loved so much.

Now, in my experience, most reviews of video games run opposite to what I think of them. For example, most reviews of Soldier of Fortune II said that it was good only for fans of the genre. However, SOFII is one of my favorite games of all times. Likewise, I thought that Clive Barker's Undying was the best horror game I ever played, but apparently lots of people thought it was weak. On the other hand I was so bored and disappointed in Silent Hill 2 that I stopped playing forever after like 45 minutes, but everyone's always going on about how Silent Hill is the best thing ever. What's more Silent Hill got a movie license and Undying didn't. Heh, and even though I'm a long-time gamer I couldn't solve a single puzzle in Silent Hill 2 with the puzzles set on easy. Not even the first one with the damn clock. I kept wondering why I couldn't just batter the stupid clock down.


So rather than just leave the question as "Is Assassin's Creed any good?" I decided to break it down into smaller questions.

1.) Compared with Hitman: Blood Money, does Assassin's Creed offer similar open-ended flexibility and multiple methodologies for carrying out assassinations?

2.) How realistic are NPC reactions in Assassin's Creed? (Considering realistic NPC reactions are supposed to be a selling point of the game).

3.) What is the relative importance of planning and execution versus super reflexes/speedy gaming skills in Assassin's Creed?

4.) How historically realistic, or how much attention to historical detail, is there in Assassin's Creed?

5.) Does Assassin's Creed support both "stealth" and "Rambo" approaches like Deus Ex, or does it tend to try and force a stealth approach, like Theif or Tenchu 2?


Bah, this set of questions would result in a better review than most review sites give, IMO.