Master the Art of the Kill

The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. 
You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.  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 change.  Includes four new additional informant missions.

Four New Additional Informant Missions:

• Roof Chase - once Altair has met up with an informant, he sends him to a second one which he needs to reach before the time runs out.
• Kill the Archers - Altair needs to take out all the archers on the roofs in a defined zone silently so that the other assassins can move on with their own missions.
• Destroy the Market Stands - as the name suggest, Altair needs to destroy a predefined number of market stands but will encounter heavy resistance from the marketeers.
• Escort - a fellow member of the brotherhood has stolen something very valuable and now the guards are chasing him. Altair needs to escort him safely out of the city.

Additional Changes Include:

• Improved artificial intelligence
• Comfort Function that allows Altair to port himself directly from the home of the brotherhood (Masyaf) to a city of his choosing provided he already visited it before.

• Be an Assassin
  Master the skills, tactics and weapons of history?s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy and fight your way to escape.
  
  
• Experience exclusive PC content
  Four PC-exclusive investigation missions make the game an even better experience than its console predecessors, including the Rooftop Race Challenge, a race to a specified location and the Archer Stealth Assassination Challenge, where the player must assassinate all archers in a certain zone to help out fellow Assassins.
  
  
• Realistic and responsive environments
  Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
  
  
• Action with a new dimension ? total freedom
  Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
  
  
• Relive the epic times of the Crusades
  Assassin?s Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
  
  
• Intense action rooted in reality
  Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
  
  
• Next-gen gameplay
  The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.

• Windows XP and Vista only
• 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)
• 1 GB of RAM for Windows XP
• 2 GB of RAM for Windows Vista
• 8 GB Hard Drive space
• 256 MB DirectX 10.0 compliant Video Card or DirectX 9.0 compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)*
• DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 compliant Sound Card (5.1 sound card recommended)
• DirectX 9.0 or10.0 libraries (included on disc)
• DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
• 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 minimum requirement listings, please visit the FAQ for this game on the support website at: http://support.ubi.com.