Assassins Creed 2

[Abraham Smashington]

You shall get your review next week Howard. Lesley just came home with it. I <3 my girlfriend. Woot.

[Abraham Smashington]

This game is pretty great so far.

[B_Metal]

This thread has Creed and ass, how is Hocken not all over this bitch?

[Abraham Smashington]

I'm really digging this game so far. The amount of missions you can do is pretty nice. It's not feeling as repetitive as the original, and I actually dig the main character this time around. The "Tomb Raider" type dungeons are a nice change of pace as well. Gives you more of a reason to HARDCORE PARKOUR over everything. But the story makes no sense to me. I guess I should have paid attention, but creepy Kristin Bell in the beginning freaked me out.

[B_Metal]

The first one was sooooo ugh though. What does this one do to fix that? I want to love an assassin game with HARDCORE PARCOUR.

[Captain Russ]

Review is up.

Warning: it is long, like Zombie John Holmes.

[Abraham Smashington]

Awesome, so awesome. Because of you we will be busting our ass to get our review system proper. So much win. PM your email again.

[nerdious dorkus]

Bra-fucking-zo, good sir. Thanks to you, I now must try out this game. Fuck face.

[Abraham Smashington]

Seriously. Russ just knocks all of this shit outta the park. We must lock him down! haha

[Captain Russ]

Awesome, so awesome. Because of you we will be busting our ass to get our review system proper. So much win. PM your email again.

Good deal. I tried to format it correctly, but I just made myself a whiskey slurpee, so fuck that noise Farmer Bill.

P.S., glad you and nerdious liked it.

[Abraham Smashington]

Still loving this fucking game. Just learned the "jump grab" move. I'm digging the fact that you're constantly learning new stuff as you go through the game. I think I'm maybe half way through? I just keep doing side quests non stop.

[Howard]

From BillyG at the CHUD thread:

What it really boils down to is, the game is boring. Everything that was fresh and new in AC1 is still here, but no better. They literally did nothing to improve upon AC1. Where I gave AC1 a pass on so many things (piss poor combat system, clunky free running, bad story telling) AC2 shouldn't be given such consideration. The engine was there, it just needed polish. Instead of polishing the free running and climbing engine (and jesus the climbing is mind numbing here, I actually avoiding climbing this time) Ubisoft just tossed in a bunch of side quests that require you to use these rough and unfinished mechanics. I'm actually pissed off at this game for taking 20 hours away from Dragon Age or MW2.

And if this is the game experience of the year for you, go immediately to Amazon and get Dragon Age for $39. Or Batman. Or Torchlight. Torchlight is much more fulfilling than AC2.

I fully expect Ubisoft to shoehorn in the animus again. The storytelling is so that it would only make sense to do that. I loved how to continue the story after you've beat the game the tech girl says they've rigged up an animus in the van so you can keep practicing. If you can run the animus in a fucking moving vehicle why stay in the warehouse where everyone keeps saying "the Templar will find us and fucking rape our mouths when they do" ?!

This game angers me. What a disappointment. It gave such high hopes, then did nothing with those hopes but throw them from a rooftop with no conveniently placed cart of hay to save them.

Youse guys are just Ubisoft plants.

[Captain Russ]

Obviously.

Or Bilbo ShiftyG is a hateful jabberwocky.

[Abraham Smashington]

That whole thread is full of fail. Except for Kate. As for the story? Who the fuck knows what is going on? Not I. Although that's because I didn't pay attention in the beginning. I just enjoy checking out the cities, killing stupid motherfuckers that walk on roofs and hiring whores.

[Howard]

He's good people. I'm sure B_Metal would vouch that too.

Also. Has the check from Ubisoft cleared yet?