The Creed also features a level editor titled the Advanced Gaming Operating System, which allows users to develop additional missions by editing characters, behaviours and the player inventory.

[2] Following pre-release, Insomniac Entertainment was requested to alter the script at the direction of publisher Electronic Arts, who raised objection to the level of profanity in the game.

[3] Electronic Arts ultimately abandoned international distribution of The Creed,[4] with the game limited release in the Asia-Pacific in 1999.

Ultimate PC, previewing the game prior to its release, noted that "The Creed still needs some work done on it...the controls in general are too complicated...and the only missions available on the code we've played were pretty similar and involved assassinations.

Pete Sharpe of PC PowerPlay stated "there is a real sense of atmosphere ever present, from the ambient techno tones...through to the eerie Blade Runner-ish street lighting.