Assassin's Creed Revelations Multiplayer Beta Heading Exclusively to PS3

[Grey_Focks]

....why would you make a beta exclusive to one console, when it will be on both and PC? Bah, me and my not having a PS3 are not pleased by this news. If this weren't Assassin's Creed I'd be considering canceling the pre-order....but it is AC, so you win this round.

You know like how I felt with both Fallout games and the DLC? Except that's even shittier because it adds content to the game?

Not trying to turn this into a pissing contest, since ideally there would be no exclusives, and every system would get everything, and exclusivity of any kind sucks. Just saying that this news doesn't please me.

Microsoft charges the customer. Why do you think they don't allow devs to release free content on XBL? It's why Valve essentially dropped TF2 for the XBax: They weren't willing to charge people for every update and all the added content.

To be fair they did stop that practice, since there have been games with free content on XBL for a while now. Hell, they said that when The Witcher 2 comes to 360 it'll still have free updates/content.

 

[HooterNanny]

Isn't the point of a beta to get more data by getting as many people as possible into the beta? Why restrict it?

The reason is called "Sony gave us a fat check"

To be fair, xbox owners (like me) are lucky to get AC at all, because it was originally going to be a PS3 exclusive franchise.

Anyway, when I saw this headline I was super annoyed, but, thinking about it, the multiplayer in Brotherhood wasn't fantastic. Sure it was original, but it did get old fast, and apparantly this new multiplayer is just more of that with extras.
I'm more excited for the story update revelations will provide, because I LOVE the AC world and mythos.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

Nobody should be surprised; the Beta for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was a PS3 exclusivity as well.

Indeed, the Assassin's Creed devs have had a thing for the PS3 since the second game.

Not that I'm complaining, personally. Though a PC beta would have been cool.

 

[Dragon-Byte]

Shit. I'm a Uplay and Plus member but I leave town and my Ps3 behind ON SEPTEMBER 3RD


FML

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Sweet! I just hope Revelations isn't as big a let down as Brotherhood was.

Wait, what? I liked it. Single player was fun as hell, and multiplayer is incredibly fast-paced and better than I expected.

I thought Brotherhood was a step to the side rather than a step forward. In spite of how much they put in and I actually liked (The new economy, Rome, better combat, the Assassin Brotherhood, etc.), there was this huge overhanging feeling of "I've done this before.". Once the campaign was over and I renovated the shit out of Rome, and completed the Christina, Romulus, and Leonardo missions, what else was there for me to do in the city?

The reason I did those missions was to get out of Rome, because after hours into the game, I felt bored with the city and I actually missed ACII's constant variation of locales between Florence, Venice, Monterrigoni, and Forli because there was more to explore and more to do. After I climbed up all the viewpoints of Rome, I eventually went, "Okay. Now what?"

Again, great game with a lot of improvements, but coming from the massive leap forward that was ACII from AC1, I was expecting a bit more. Maybe me feeling let down was the result of me expecting far too much from the game, so I won't repeat this mistake when Revelations comes out. And yeah, the multiplayer was really compelling. I'd go as far as to say it's the most intelligently designed multiplayer component since Call of Duty 4's.

 

[Pirakahunter788]

Me : O_O

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