Have to disagree about Assassin's Creed. Great visuals, the animation and character control are very good, but the world is just so empty. There's very little color or flavor in the world. You compare it to Hyrule in Zelda, but at least in Zelda there are spiders to find, treasures to uncover, enemies to kill. The setting and style of Assassin's Creed are great, and really stand out from generic space marines, but the content of the game could have all been fit into a world a tenth of the size.