Yeah, some of the Jerusalem districts (if you can call them that, old pappy towns :D) give me INSANE slowdown. It's like.. I pass a line on the ground and it goes apeship proper.

As for the game I'm right there with you ManFear, it's just too automatic to stay exciting. The escapes start out awesome, but they don't stay that way simply beacuse they're so incredibly easy. Adding more pursuers would just be cheap, though, and I suppose smarter pursuers is the only way to fix it.

Of course the game recognizes that these are the fun bits, and realises it can't just bombard you with those so it goes to great lengths to give you useless boring tasks between them.

The worst thing is .. it's difficult to really suggest changes without turning into a full fledged action RPG, but it's brought its dullness on itself by setting it in a large "living" world rather than having proper Hitman-esque scenarios.

It feels a lot like Kameo really, where you'd also ride past stuff you'd think held secret treasures if you just got a new skill or some other way of approaching it, but Altaïr disappointingly refuses to scale those mysterious and secretive cliffs simply because there's nothing there.

That's how I feel about a lot of this game, I try to see things in it that aren't there. Ultimately it's disappointingly disappointing. :(

The kills and the escapes are still cool though, and the story is reasonably well put together so I'll prolly see it through. Much like Kameo it's so consistently boring that it never puts you off properly, hence you'll prolly actually finish the game eventually no matter how you feel about it.

That's because you're the man who fears the Wii - and also real platformers. :D

Okay so cargo pants are out, but can we still be amused at the amount of "ass" in your posts? Pleeeaaaase?

Back onto the point of languages, some of them - for some reason - speak french. :O

The following contains spoilers of the opening moments/reveal of the game.
I've been thinking a bit about Altaïr's voice though, and even more the way he expresses himself. Couldn't it be that Desmond is applying his own spin on it? I mean everyone else sounds decently old like, but Altaïr himself gives off this rather modern vibe to me.

I mean the likelyhood of Altaïr even looking like Desmond is remote, so I reckon it's reasonable to assume in "taking on the role", he's applying some of his own character treats involuntarily.

Dunno if that needed spoiler tagging, but the topic says NO spoilers so I thought it safest. :)

:D

It took you half an hour to react to what you previously replied to. :D

Yeah you like that don't you!? *spank* :D

Why is that? Your confusion confuses me!