Comments on: Jumpy Stabby: Assassin’s Creed II Footage

By: Yongblade

Yongblade — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:02:10 +0000

They said it comes out for Xbox 360 and PS3 on November 17th. Then they’ll release the PC version in sometime around the begining of 2010.

By: SquareWheel

SquareWheel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:33:38 +0000

Dunno about you guys, but Assassin’s Creed 1 and GTA IV ran fine for me.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:56:10 +0000

“this is not a PC game”

No, it’s not, it’s very much a console port. It still looks like a hell of a lot of fun, though, and being as I don’t own any next-gen consoles (and have no plans to) I’ll be picking it up on PC unless the port is horribly broken (like, worse than the port of the first one).

By: Freudian Trip

Freudian Trip — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:41:31 +0000

I’m starting a sweepstake on how many exits it’ll take to quit the game. I’ve got $20 on 7. Any takers?

By: Devan

Devan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:23:25 +0000

Heh, Alienware might not be built by humans, but they’re still a ripoff.

As for me, I’ll wait to see if it the story is any better than the last one. The climbing/fighting action alone isn’t different enough to warrant buying a sequel.

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:38:32 +0000

Just buy an Alienware. Problem solved. :P

By: Urthman

Urthman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:33:59 +0000

Anyone but me annoyed that towers in 16th century Italy have bird perches identical to the ones in 12th century Palestine?

I’d hope that this is some subtle clue about the limitations of the Animus if the first game had done anything remotely clever at all with the concept.

Dumb plot and dumber unskippable cuts cenes aside, I enjoyed the first game and this looks like more of what I liked with even more variety. Assassin’s Creed runs great on today’s PC hardware, so if they can just manage to not make the port worse than last time, this one should run okay. Not a very high bar, but not a sure thing either.

By: MacD

MacD — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:08:05 +0000

Ugh; it’s got that same horrid white-out effect when targetting an enemy. I swear, a circle under them, or a slight sharpening of your target instead of that fullbody, texture erasing white blur would have been much appreciated.

Oblivion did the saqme for targetted loot…it’s the most intrusive and invase and immersionbreaking thing you can do as a game dev. Sure, it’s obvious, but it’s too intrusive. I wish they would have done it in a MUCH more subtle way.

And the killing is a bit OTT; “yeah, now you can kill two people at the same time! Aren’t you cool now!”.
Somehow I think the devs just don’t understand what’s cool about this game and how to emphasise it. It’s like they know how to make cool game mechanics, but don’t know how to make a cool GAME out of them. It’s really odd, I think AC is one of the first games where I’ve really come across that problem so obviously.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:53:58 +0000

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Part 1, classical-music-fact-fans…

In fact – this exact recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AEaQJuKDY

By: megaman

megaman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:44:11 +0000

The first part had some amazing potential. I had fun playing it, sadly only for a while because of the repetition. I, for one, am looking forward to this – it looks like they kept the nice things and might have improved the other parts. I hope I can borrow it from a friend like I did with the first one after he had finished playing it.

By: Bananaphone

Bananaphone — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:02:00 +0000

The combat animation looks really stupid, he just runs at them flailing his fists. Hope there’s a windmilling ability.

By: Clovis

Clovis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:24:51 +0000

Ya, that should have been true for GTA IV as well. I liked how the devs explained the terrible performance by saying that GTAIV uses next gen technology or some crap. Right, and this amazing tech runs on an XBOX 360 with no problem? No, you just wrote a bad port. My hopes aren’t high for this one either.