Review: Assassin's Creed 2
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It looks interesting, I said that about the first one though and never got round to playing it. And hey, at least the combat isn't as awful as Velvet Assassin, from the sounds of it it's hit the other end of the difficulty scale there. Also I resent the Britsh comment, I went to a boarding school and I do not talk like that lol!
Tuo parli l'italiano?Susan Arendt said:
Sorry about that, I took an italian course
I know why Ezio is using the villa as a resort! No shady guild does business without a front!
The last place you'd expect to find a group of assassins is in a resort
Wow cool, I really want to get this game now! I really would like to see how challenging the puzzles you described are.
Now, we wait for the botched PC release that many people have a shit of a time installing. As long as the game is better than the first, I'll try it.
Slightly improved? Play it. Trust me, you won't believe how much better it is.HentMas said:
And I was also one of the ones who thoroughly enjoyed the first.
EDIT: Also, kudos for writing a review which is almost spot-on (can't say I ever had any troubles with the free running except in a couple of very isolated incidents) whilst revealing no plot-points.
Most other reviewers can't seem to bear saying whether the plot works/connects with the player without spoiling chunks of it.
Ok, this person definitely did not play the game through to completion. Block&counter is a good way to die fighting brutes and seekers, unless you have the hidden blade equipped, in which case combat takes forever.
The enemies don't all take turns attacking you; this reveiwer is going to hell for lying. Much the contrary, there are some times an enemy will attack you when you're in the middle of an attack animation against another enemy and can't do a thing about it (again, this happens much more often late game). Which is a shame because I didn't think the first AC's combat had anything wrong with it.
And lastly, the video of the truth I wouldn't say is very confusing once you actually unlock the whole thing. The dialogue more or less clears it up when paired with the game's ending. What makes it confusing is that in the initial steps, there's no sound and it's fragmented.
All in all, it's pretty obvious that this reveiwer just played the first couple hours and not the complete game.
The enemies don't all take turns attacking you; this reveiwer is going to hell for lying. Much the contrary, there are some times an enemy will attack you when you're in the middle of an attack animation against another enemy and can't do a thing about it (again, this happens much more often late game). Which is a shame because I didn't think the first AC's combat had anything wrong with it.
And lastly, the video of the truth I wouldn't say is very confusing once you actually unlock the whole thing. The dialogue more or less clears it up when paired with the game's ending. What makes it confusing is that in the initial steps, there's no sound and it's fragmented.
All in all, it's pretty obvious that this reveiwer just played the first couple hours and not the complete game.
Speak it? No. Love it? Oh, dear lord, yes.daheikmeister said:Tuo parli l'italiano?Susan Arendt said:
Sorry about that, I took an italian course
I know why Ezio is using the villa as a resort! No shady guild does business without a front!
The last place you'd expect to find a group of assassins is in a resort
Being born and raised in San Gimignano, I was very disappointed in seeing that it's very different from the actual town. Monteriggioni is even worse, it has nothing in common with the real one (even though I can understand the poetic license needed to fit in the "SimCity" part).
No offense, but you may have to study it more. What you wrote is "your speak the Italian?", the correct phrase is "(tu) parli italiano?". The pronoun is generally omitted in informal speech.daheikmeister said:Tuo parli l'italiano?
Sorry about that, I took an italian course
While I'm at it: this phrase is correct, but semantically is not very beautiful; I'm gonna have a hard time explaining, but basically if you say only "buono" it sort of means good like good food (has a good taste), else you should say "buon(o) ", in this case "a good game" = "un buon gioco". A more common phrase would be "è molto, molto bello" ("bello" = beautiful), because "bello" has a broader meaning that just being beautiful (again, it's not easy to explain).Susan Arendt said:
Sorry, did the best I could without knowing the language.Viruzzo said:Being born and raised in San Gimignano, I was very disappointed in seeing that it's very different from the actual town. Monteriggioni is even worse, it has nothing in common with the real one (even though I can understand the poetic license needed to fit in the "SimCity" part).
No offense, but you may have to study it more. What you wrote is "your speak the Italian?", the correct phrase is "(tu) parli italiano?". The pronoun is generally omitted in informal speech.daheikmeister said:Tuo parli l'italiano?
Sorry about that, I took an italian course
While I'm at it: this phrase is correct, but semantically is not very beautiful; I'm gonna have a hard time explaining, but basically if you say only "buono" it sort of means good like good food (has a good taste), else you should say "buon(o) ", in this case "a good game" = "un buon gioco". A more common phrase would be "è molto, molto bello" ("bello" = beautiful), because "bello" has a broader meaning that just being beautiful (again, it's not easy to explain).Susan Arendt said:
Wow, going to hell for lying, eh? No, the enemies don't literally take it in turns to attack you every single time (not that I claimed they did), but it certainly happens often enough to sap much of the enjoyment out of the combat.Krythe said:
As for saying the video of the truth makes sense once you've seen all of it...well, duh. Of course it does. You seem to be confusing my desire to not provide spoilers with not knowing what I'm talking about. The confusion of piecing together "the truth" is in fact part of what makes it enjoyable...just like any good mystery.
I totally understand, I just like educating (read: nitpicking), actually yours is a very good phrase compared to many that I've seen around now that the game has come out.Susan Arendt said:
BTW good review, I can't wait to lay my hands on it, even more so since I liked the first one quite a lot, even with the repetitive sub-missions (I actually did all of them).
For me, this game is probably game of the year - it expands on everything that made the first game good without loses its charm or originality. The story is very well told, the world incredibly large and yet so detailed - and for once an open-world lead character is actually interesting and develops over the course off the game...
In all : Buy it - you won't be disappointed.
In all : Buy it - you won't be disappointed.
I too found myself hating the minstrels for a long time. Towards the end of the game I was running past one and I knocked his guitar out of his had. He got all emotional about it and said "But I wrote it for YOU." After that I just couldn't kill them anymore. I don't know why, but I just felt bad.
I really really like this game. I enjoyed the original quite a bit, though the end was godawful. I'm hoping it's better this time round (I'm very nearly there). I have to say I enjoyed obtaining all the seals, it was reminiscent of the Prince of Persia puzzles (not a huge surprise I suppose, both are ubisoft games), which I liked, though I can see why people are unhappy with the controls, they just don't always respond in the right way. Anyway, good review, excellent game.