Comments on: Axe-Based Chops: Assassin’s Creed II Trailer

By: Kirrus

Kirrus — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:10:16 +0000

Thanks Vinraith, I will. Now I just have to wait until I get home and back to my gaming PC :)

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:39:36 +0000

@kirrus

Get the first one. It’s entertaining in its own right, quite cheap right now, and the second one will follow on from the plot of the first in some form.

By: kirrus

kirrus — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:26:03 +0000

As someone who has never played the game, is Assassins Creed #1 worth getting, or would it be worth just waiting for AC#2 to come down in price?

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:25:35 +0000

i want the next assassins creed game to be about you playing jack the ripper as he murders “innocent” women who are actually part of a 2000+- year old conspiracy to ide the presence of the illuminati in the british royality THE QUEEN IS A REPTOID TONY BLAIR IS A REPTOID GORDON RAMSEY IS A PRIEST IN SERVICE OF THE DEVIL “HELL’S KITCHEN?” NO COINCIDENCE DICK CHENEY IS A WARLOCK AND A LICH AND THE DEVIL FROM THE BIBLE AND THE DEVIL FROM COW AND CHICKEN AND ZOMBIE GOAST LEFT THE VEIL SHEEPLE

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:26:15 +0000

My claim to fame: I’ve spoken to the guy who does the voice for one AC2′s minor characters.

Yeah, I know, you’re impressed.

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:45:13 +0000

The actual music in the game has been done by Jesper Kyd again (same guy who used the Budapest Symphony Orchestra for Hitman 2): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Kyd

By: jackflash

jackflash — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:56:54 +0000

Forgive my negativity, but I thought Assassin’s Creed was an awful, awful game. One of those titles that is visually extraordinary and has high production values, but when you think “what am I actually doing while playing this game?” the answer is – “not much.” I can’t think of a more un-interactive game in recent memory. Bought it for $10 on steam and uninstalled it after about 3 hours.

By: inanimotion

inanimotion — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:05:26 +0000

Sweet jesus they used Justice!
Sold.

By: DarkNoghri

DarkNoghri — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:24:11 +0000

Hümmelgümpf:

Nothing has yet surpassed River City Ransom in the area of combat. NOTHING.

Though that could just be the nostalgia talking.

I quite enjoyed Assassin’s Creed. While repetitive, I just loved the fact that I could run around entire cities stabbing people at will. Jumping, climbing, it was all great fun.

The missions were a bit of a letdown, including the assassination ones, often.

I do hope they properly port this to the PC, this time around. Meaning we don’t have to resort to alt-f4 to get out, there’s a proper save system, and the game is optimized properly. Oh, and support full-screen resolutions. This was the game that forced 4:3ers to run in letterbox, was it not?

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:23:00 +0000

In fairness, there were a lot of guards standing in pairs in the original as well (despite the absence of double wrist blades).

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:21:16 +0000

The actual combat in all hitman games is a roast turd. The ai seem smart before being alerted, but after being alerted the just run at you and the gun play is unsatisfying. Even things like human shields can’t make shooting people who are shooting back fun in hitman when they just run straight at you with all the sophistication of a pacman ghost. Combat in thief i enjoyed, but it clearly wasn’t actually “good”. The best combat in stealth games tend to be combat games with stealth as a tacked on option. Has anyone ever managed both well?

By: Ybfelix

Ybfelix — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:19:54 +0000

@disperse: ha ha nice
Yes, developers are generally losing the courage of making something nice but then refrain from highlighting it, even if subtlety demands.