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I'll wait for the PC release I think, do it justice in the detail of the cities.
I have seen enough videos of the game to know they really added and fixed all the stuff people hated from AC1, and so far I like everything about it so I cant wait to play it.
Well 3-1 to MS in failures :P
Besides, I need a Ps3 for my HD movies, wireless online useage and free online play (my sister is addicted to Warhawk :P), and games.
I get a media center along with a gaming system, so I prefer it. Most games on 360 is on PC anyways and I have a good enough PC to run them so I am not missing anything.
So yeah, 360 failed 3 times in short spans, while my 60GB was nearly 2 years now and failed once, lets see how Slim treats me.
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Mostly just comments on gameplay and how the game differs from the first. Which it does, hugely.
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I am sure Play will pull a 17.99 ;)
/rant over :)
That said, this is way more of a proper platformer now. You collect these seals that are hidden in secret rooms throughout the cities, and what you do is you find a secret door to enter and then it's a proper Sands of Time style traversal thing inside that you have to figure your way across.
I should prolly have mentioned that in my writeup actually.. oh well, something for the opinion later. :D
But yeah, games, AAAH, so many of them. I've also pegged a few to catch up on next year when the inevitable dry period comes.
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That said, this is way more of a proper platformer now. You collect these seals that are hidden in secret rooms throughout the cities, and what you do is you find a secret door to enter and then it's a proper Sands of Time style traversal thing inside that you have to figure your way across.
I should prolly have mentioned that in my writeup actually.. oh well, something for the opinion later. :D
But yeah, games, AAAH, so many of them. I've also pegged a few to catch up on next year when the inevitable dry period comes.
Speaking of too much games, I absolutely agree. From now until early january I have Halo 3, Halo ODST, Batman Arkham Assylum, Uncharted and Uncharted 2 to play not to mention Tales of Vesperia which I have yet to finish. half of those are 2008 games :D and dont even get me started on next year:
Darksiders
Dante's Inferno
Bayonetta
Splinter Cell
Castlevenia
Alan Wake...................... etc etc
I'm just swinging by with a realisation I had. It's not detrimental to the game in any way, just a curious fact I would say. In the first AC, the locations felt very etheral to me.. riding towards Jerusalem and realising that.. that there is Jerusalem.. was very powerful. I'm not religious (nor an atheist I'll stress) but somehow those locations, and maybe that time period in general, somehow got to me.
Assassin's Creed 2 is technically set in exciting historical times, and maybe I just don't know my history well enough, but there's really never that moment where you kinda just stop and to a small degree experience the gravity of what is going on.
I'm gonna go on here because that's the way I am!
I had a similar experience with Tomb Raider Underworld. Now, Anniversary was a remake and couldn't be expected to deliver Legend type stuff narratively, but in Legend I had a moment of.. well awe I guess is the word for it. When you punch through the wall in that fakey Excalibur fortress/attraction level and you realise that what you entering is the *real* grave of Arthur, that gave me goosebumps.
I am of course able to separate fiction from history here, but in my heart's mind I guess they occupy the same space. The sensation of true, significant discovery is extremely fleeting and hard to capture but AC and Legend both did it for me.
Underworld bungled that with its norse god stuff. For me I think it just got too fantastical, but it also lacked that decisive moment of realisation. Likewise I can sort of look at the historical parts that make up the whole of AC2 and understand in theory why it's significant, but it hasn't actually *hit me*. Not yet anyway.
As I said earlier, that doesn't affect the game at all - which is superb (yeah I'm upgrading it a bit here, being 9 hours in now) - but it's still interesting stuff to think about.
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This game is what AC1 should have been like.
The missions are awesome, so much variety, nothing i boring. You buy weapons, armor, dye outfits, get bigger poch for more money, repair armor...etc. has some sort of a RPG element to it which is great.
One thing I hated in Ac1 was the flags because you didnt get anything for them, but here, they added feathers, chests, posters and you always get rewarded for what you get.
The combat is the same, so its a love and hate kind of thing, I personally love it.
Even though I love Ezio's outfit design because it fits in the time period, Ubisoft was kind of enough to give us a the badass Altair replica outfit, but you have to gain Uplay and then you can access in the main menu and purchase various things.
I was afraid of this game with how AC1 turned out and what Ubisoft's PR talk do to us, but this one adresses everything anyone hated from the first game which is awesome.
Anyways, I am really enjoying it, and I have probably played for 8 hours or so, and I have barely done half of the things with collectings, view points, tombs...etc. which is great, long game :)
I would recommend this game to anyone who liked AC1 but had this "mission repetitive" fear from it, dont worry, its 10x better, maybe not at first but later onw ehn you get your gear and stuff starts to pan out then its more fun, atleast a rent.
Anyways, I have said it before and I will say it again, Assassin's Creed is probably my favorite series right now coming from Ubisoft.
I just hope for AC3, they continue to see what they did right with AC2 and go from there.
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All of it is tightened up too, with counters actually requiring proper timing on your part. Certainly, every area of the game is improved tons, but I thought I'd just emphasise this since you glossed it over a bit unfairly I thought.
IRAIPTOIR: You can dye your clothes, purchase different armor pieces and stuff throughout the game. When you start out, you play as straight up normal Ezio without fancy.. well.. pants.. so no, not "the entire game", but once you get the assassin's garb, sure. I'm currently donning some sweet Ocra coloured clothes and have recently invested in some expensive armor for my legs and chest. Looking right spiffy I am, doing thief races over rooftops at the moment. :D
I could seriously see this finishing as my fave game of the year, but I'll have to reserve that kind of statement until I have some perspective on what actually came out THIS YEAR. Sooo foggy for me for the first half. It's been a completely insane year for me, with this type of character movement based action adventures turning my legs into jelly.
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Seems like a great game going by your impressions and thats what I needed to see not from reviews.
;)
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It's not to do with the story or anything major, but just in case I half spoiler tag it.
When you're renovating places around the mansion be sure to find them afterwards. You can climb down the well, enter the mine, etc, and they all hide money and stuff inside. It's all Zelda-esque. :D
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