Assassin's Creed II Leaps to PC March 16

[Caliostro]

AC2's PC version will be priced at the console standard of $59.99 instead of the usual PC price of $49.99,

Gah...had me raging for a second till I read the rest. It's not REALLY the console price since it includes the extra DLC content...

Still not awesome, but reasonable.

Will be waiting for it... Along with Bad Company 2.

 

[jamesworkshop]

Yay a release date

For The Win

 

[Pimppeter2]

It'd better be awesome for the wait, or I'm locking the Ubisoft staff in a shed and setting it on fire.

I mean it this time!

It won't be, as I shall prove to you in my review soon.

 

[Panda Mania]

Get my hands on...

is it just me, or does that come across as rather...strange?

 

[ucciolord1]

It'd better be awesome for the wait, or I'm locking the Ubisoft staff in a shed and setting it on fire.

I mean it this time!

I'm with you, and while we're at it, Activision and EA annoy me too. Away with them!
And no, I will not put my pitchfork down! I spent so long getting it just sharp enough!

 

[Callate]

AssCreed 2 will...

Mr. Funk, I believe your license to abbreviate has just been revoked.

 

[MorsePacific]

Hell yes, I've got those specs locked down!

I'm so excited for this. You can't even begin to imagine my frustration when I heard it was delayed last year.

 

[brunothepig]

I wonder what keys the PC gamers will have to hold down 60% of the game.

They could just plug in a controller. Or toggle auto-run.

Anyways, are those DLCs out on consoles yet? I haven't heard anything about them...

I love me some keyboard+mouse, but frankly I don't know if I would want to touch AC2 without a good ol' 360 controller. The game was really built for controllers.

I can't even begin to think how that it would work with a keyboard and mouse. Right Click to assassinate?

I've been playing AC2 on my friends PS3, so I'll definitely have finished it by the time it comes out. Probably still get it. And I found AC easier on PC. Seriously. Probably cause I could turn the camera whilst free running, where as on PS3 I have to take my thumb of the left analog to use the right analog to turn the camera. But it works well on PS3.

I'd prefer the console version more. I like achievements and the aiming seems less irritating.

I do also enjoy achievements though. Or, in this case, trophies.

 

[Elementlmage]

Here's a tip to you PC gamers, don't bother, Ass of Ass Creed 2 is paperboy dressed up in good graphics and physics.

The story is good and the character Ezio is likable, but the actual game is just jumping and running from place to place doing whatever you have to do.

It could have been good if you could find out yourself how to get to a spot, but no, just go in the direction of the map marker and hold a button to climb is all that is needed.

That is why the Piracy Gods invented file-sharing my friend. So we don't have to feed the beast that creates this shit, feeds us lies, and tells us the sun is shinning, and we still get all of the same benefits as had we purchased it...with less headache!

Also, for all the people criticizing PC controls on a game like this, if it is anything like AC1, imagine silk caressing your nuts(or if you are a woman...vagina). The camera controls and movement were SO smooth that you didn't even have to use lock on. You could just flick your wrist and jump from target to target like a rabid chimp high on caffeine. I know it's hard to imagine, but KB&M was 10x better than a controller for that game.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Also, for all the people criticizing PC controls on a game like this, if it is anything like AC1, imagine silk caressing your nuts(or if you are a woman...vagina). The camera controls and movement were SO smooth that you didn't even have to use lock on. You could just flick your wrist and jump from target to target like a rabid chimp high on caffeine. I know it's hard to imagine, but KB&M was 10x better than a controller for that game.

I don't know that I would resort to the same level of hyperbole, but this is basically accurate - the controls worked perfectly for the most part, and the game didn't feel like a port hampered by a different interface.

Plus the PC version of AC1 had fast travel and the console versions didn't, ergo it was better. Yay!

 

[The Tingler]

So... we're being forced to buy a Special Edition? Including DLC that literally should've been in the game in the first place? Gee, thanks.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Already played it and finished it on my brothers 360 I'll still be getting it though just for ownership rights and see how much better it looks on my PC. Awesome game.

And somehow I KNEW it would be packaged with the DLC, it just seems like a trend lately and it made sense as it was being released later. Looking forward to playing that too!

Because of how overpriced games are here in Aussieland, I wonder if I buying the (better) digital version on Steam would actually work out CHEAPER than buying the ordinary version in store? As long as those prices don't change depending on where you are, $60 American is about $70 Australian, while buying the normal version in stores when it first comes out will cost me about $100... Assuming those are American prices listed in the OP.

 

[Aperama]

My real question: Will this game be playable, unlike the first one for PC? Seriously, they never patched it, and I've owned two copies (one came with my graphics card, a GTX 280 which should be able to run -its sequel) - you just get random errors, and most of the people who've played it have. But Ubisoft doesn't support PC gamers - we just get crappy console ports, pretty well universally (same with Capcom - anyone who's ever played Resident Evil 4 PC and wondered 'what button 1 + 3 together' during the much-beloved quick time events were would have to agree with me here). But yeah.. I reaally can't see myself wanting to pick it up, given that I still can't play past the first assassination in part 1 (literally won't let me travel past X point, and this is a common problem that they refuse to try and fix because they've already sold it!) Heh. Sorry, ranting a little, but.. still truthful.

 

[Abedeus]

Also, for all the people criticizing PC controls on a game like this, if it is anything like AC1, imagine silk caressing your nuts(or if you are a woman...vagina). The camera controls and movement were SO smooth that you didn't even have to use lock on. You could just flick your wrist and jump from target to target like a rabid chimp high on caffeine. I know it's hard to imagine, but KB&M was 10x better than a controller for that game.

I don't know that I would resort to the same level of hyperbole, but this is basically accurate - the controls worked perfectly for the most part, and the game didn't feel like a port hampered by a different interface.

Plus the PC version of AC1 had fast travel and the console versions didn't, ergo it was better. Yay!

Aye. I tried playing it with my gamepad, and I love my gamepad, I play Force Unleashed, Devil May Cry 4, Onimusha and so on using my gamepad... but a 5-button mouse + keyboard was a LOT better for the game.

My real question: Will this game be playable, unlike the first one for PC? Seriously, they never patched it, and I've owned two copies (one came with my graphics card, a GTX 280 which should be able to run -its sequel) - you just get random errors, and most of the people who've played it have. But Ubisoft doesn't support PC gamers - we just get crappy console ports, pretty well universally (same with Capcom - anyone who's ever played Resident Evil 4 PC and wondered 'what button 1 + 3 together' during the much-beloved quick time events were would have to agree with me here). But yeah.. I reaally can't see myself wanting to pick it up, given that I still can't play past the first assassination in part 1 (literally won't let me travel past X point, and this is a common problem that they refuse to try and fix because they've already sold it!) Heh. Sorry, ranting a little, but.. still truthful.

Looks to me like you have that problem, I don't. Pirated the game first time, then bought it on Steam, both versions worked flawlessly.

Also, are you high? Ubisoft is one of the best PC developers. Or PC porters. The only game that made me angry about them was Prince of Persia from last year, and only because we didn't get the DLC.

 

[Elementlmage]

Also, for all the people criticizing PC controls on a game like this, if it is anything like AC1, imagine silk caressing your nuts(or if you are a woman...vagina). The camera controls and movement were SO smooth that you didn't even have to use lock on. You could just flick your wrist and jump from target to target like a rabid chimp high on caffeine. I know it's hard to imagine, but KB&M was 10x better than a controller for that game.

I don't know that I would resort to the same level of hyperbole, but this is basically accurate - the controls worked perfectly for the most part, and the game didn't feel like a port hampered by a different interface.

Plus the PC version of AC1 had fast travel and the console versions didn't, ergo it was better. Yay!

That's the beauty of hyperbole; you aren't actually being serious! (well, to a certain extent you are...)

 

[karmapolizei]

I wonder what keys the PC gamers will have to hold down 60% of the game.

They could just plug in a controller. Or toggle auto-run.

Anyways, are those DLCs out on consoles yet? I haven't heard anything about them...

I love me some keyboard+mouse, but frankly I don't know if I would want to touch AC2 without a good ol' 360 controller. The game was really built for controllers.

I can't even begin to think how that it would work with a keyboard and mouse. Right Click to assassinate?

AC1 worked surprisingly well with keyboard & mouse. I wouldn't have thought that myself, but they did a pretty good job.

That said, I'm pretty delighted that it got delayed - the original release date was just too close to ME2's release date.

 

[ASnogarD]

Yes , the price includes the DLC but it removes the option to buy the DLC, basically PC users didnt get the option to choose... doesnt appeal.

As to the comment from the Aussie above, mate I dont care how long you lot have to wait, theres a country in Africa who are still waiting for Pac-Man... I dont care about the wait part at all, its the way its released for 2 out of the 3 platforms while the 3rd platform has to wait that gets my goat (and not my dosh).
Dont give me that BS about the PC being different to code for, the PS3 is far more unique a platform than both the 360 and PC.
Let me tell you why the PC gets delays.
Its simply because if you release a hyped game for the consoles first, then PC later you can get fans who own both a console and a gaming PC, thus sell the game twice in effect.
I havent got access to market stats and stuff, but I am confidant enough to claim that the number of console players that own a gaming PC are considerable, so the buy twice market is pretty decent.

I aint naive enough to think anyone actually cares, or that gaming is some sacrosant area in industry that shouldnt get soiled with blatant commercialism, but I do reserve the right to complain like a whiney brat about it

 

[Dommyboy]

Well, I enjoyed the PC version of Assassins Creed 1 a lot more anyway, so I look forward to this.

 

[DigitalSushi]

Here's a tip to you PC gamers, don't bother, Ass of Ass Creed 2 is paperboy dressed up in good graphics and physics.

The story is good and the character Ezio is likable, but the actual game is just jumping and running from place to place doing whatever you have to do.

It could have been good if you could find out yourself how to get to a spot, but no, just go in the direction of the map marker and hold a button to climb is all that is needed.

That is why the Piracy Gods invented file-sharing my friend. So we don't have to feed the beast that creates this shit, feeds us lies, and tells us the sun is shinning, and we still get all of the same benefits as had we purchased it...with less headache!

Also, for all the people criticizing PC controls on a game like this, if it is anything like AC1, imagine silk caressing your nuts(or if you are a woman...vagina). The camera controls and movement were SO smooth that you didn't even have to use lock on. You could just flick your wrist and jump from target to target like a rabid chimp high on caffeine. I know it's hard to imagine, but KB&M was 10x better than a controller for that game.

I for one do not condone piracy especially on an admin's news article.


AC2 could be good, if it was challenging, but with the dificulty (very very very easy) that it has its nothing more than "Errand Boy's Creed 2".