Sony's media briefing was the occasion to present the first ever seen gameplay of Assassin's Creed 2. Available in a nasty low definition file, it's now back in a mighty HD screener. The art direction of Ubisoft's new game is amazingly beautiful, and the gameplay seems to offer some great new stuff. We can only show you the first part of the gameplay yet, but keep posted, the second part is coming up very soon !
Update: Second part now online.
All comments (17)
I've got fate in ubisoft, and think they have learned a lot from the first game.
You meet another assassin in random places and they talk to you in a few minutes to bore you to death and this is what you have to do.
Steal this and that get your info.
Kill templar and get your info.
Collect flags in a time get your info.
Easedrop (whatever its called) get your info.
Stalk someone to a corner, beat them, get your info.
Thats all it had before killing your target, was sooo boring.
For me, AC is about the story, mood and atmosphere, and AC2 seems to have that.
I don't think I will buy this game, but I will for sure check some walkthroughs to get to know the story.
That's £10 saved! (Special offer on Steam).
It's stunning either way, and I actually believe that it will be a great game. Ubisoft (quite rightly) received a lot of criticism for the lack of variety in terms of missions/assignments that had to be carried out, so they're well aware of how important it'll be to fix that. Like I said in another thread, I'd find it hard to believe that Ubisoft wouldn't address the issue that severely held the first game back.
You can already see hints of them trying to solve the issue in question, just from this short piece of footage. There'll be 30 weapons in the game, which is a significantly larger amount compared to the first game. Furthermore, there appears to be more assassination methods and some very cool gameplay mechanics implemented. So, gameplay wise, this stands every chance of being more varied than its predecessor.
Now, we know next to nothing about the mission structure, which is just as vital to maintaining variation as the gameplay itself. Please Ubisoft, none of this 'pickpocket, stalk, steal' loop that made the first game incredibly boring. Personally, I'd like to be given a degree of freedom with regards to the assassinations; it'd be cool just to plan our own route and plot how we're going to take out each target. That in itself would make each assassination kill a different experience.
Anyway, this game has fantastic potential; arguably more potential than any other game coming out this year or next. The problem is that the first game also had bags of potential, but fell way short of greatness.
You meet another assassin in random places and they talk to you in a few minutes to bore you to death and this is what you have to do.
Steal this and that get your info.
Kill templar and get your info.
Collect flags in a time get your info.
Easedrop (whatever its called) get your info.
Stalk someone to a corner, beat them, get your info.
Thats all it had before killing your target, was sooo boring.
For me, AC is about the story, mood and atmosphere, and AC2 seems to have that.
I don't think I will buy this game, but I will for sure check some walkthroughs to get to know the story.
Anyhow don't they have one more Assassin's Creed to go in this trilogy?
Yes even better than U2 for me.
The first game was very play through. It is interesting to see how critical gamers have become..