I have been looking forward to Assassin's Creed for quite some time now. Ok, I'll be honest, I look forward to Jade Raymond too. But back to the point. The building grappling demos had me rather excited. But I'm totally surprised by the lameness of the melee combat AI.
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/12/assassins-creed-gameplay-video-in-three-parts Watch the 3rd part of that video, and be unimpressed like me.
-n