Two future purchases

[Kekvit Irae]

Assassin's Creed 2

Enjoy being booted from the game whenever your internet connection craps out or Ubisoft's servers go down.

Go with the PS3 or the 360 version if you absolutely HAVE to have AC2.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Wow, I used to read Assassin's Creed, the original one, was regarded as one of the best games of all time... I mean, I never played anything but strategy and Mount&Blade as the only non-strategy title under my belt, but I read and heard enough about which games are good and which ones are not quite so.

EDIT: Wait a sec, but the reviews for Assassin's Creed II, as I just checked, seem to be glowing. How so?

[naut]

Wow, I used to read Assassin's Creed, the original one, was regarded as one of the best games of all time

It's good if you like having to ride a horse for a thousand hours to get to a mission, then do some basic courier stuff, then eventually kill your target, which takes all of 30 seconds, then listen to him tell you his life story for 30 minutes as he dies in your arms. No it's good, but there was just too much of nothing in-between the good bits.

EDIT: Wait a sec, but the reviews for Assassin's Creed II, as I just checked, seem to be glowing. How so?

Because reviewers are magpies impressed by pretty colours and shiny objects?

Ass 1 was very dull in parts. Ass 2 is Ubisoft's attempt to correct that. But, they went overboard and tried too much. Plus it's too easy.

[Fragony]

Battlefield demo is great fun, I suck at it team games always confuse me, but when I do get the occasional kill it feels good. It's also a very pretty game. Going to be a tough choice between Battlefield and MAG

[Husar]

Wow, I used to read Assassin's Creed, the original one, was regarded as one of the best games of all time... I mean, I never played anything but strategy and Mount&Blade as the only non-strategy title under my belt, but I read and heard enough about which games are good and which ones are not quite so.

EDIT: Wait a sec, but the reviews for Assassin's Creed II, as I just checked, seem to be glowing. How so?[/QUOTE]

Part one was, as Psycho says, very dull in parts, a lot of reviewers and people are amazed at first but less so after a while, by then the reviews are often already out, reviewers also have to play through whole games in a relatively short time usually, my favourite magazine is a bit late with reviews sometimes but so far I've found them relatively trustworthy.
And then not all the reviewers keep the DRM in mind, the console versions don't have the DRM of the PC version though, so you'd have to wait for the Pc specific reviews to see if that is considered by the reviewers and how. What just came to mind is that the reviewers may even get DRM-free review versions, hmm.

[miotas]

Wow, I used to read Assassin's Creed, the original one, was regarded as one of the best games of all time... I mean, I never played anything but strategy and Mount&Blade as the only non-strategy title under my belt, but I read and heard enough about which games are good and which ones are not quite so.

EDIT: Wait a sec, but the reviews for Assassin's Creed II, as I just checked, seem to be glowing. How so?

Assassins creed was a brilliant game at first, but it got old very quickly and I never finished it, Assassin's creed 2 however was a brilliant game that was a lot of fun the whole way through, everyone I know thought so as well. Some had a few aspects of the game they didn't like, but all of them thought it was a great game. This thread is actually the first that I've ever heard anyone say that it was an outright terrible game. I thought that Vuk was making a bad joke before I seen others agreeing with him.

That DRM sounds like a deal breaker to me though, even if my computer could run it I'd never buy it for PC.

[naut]

This thread is actually the first that I've ever heard anyone say that it was an outright terrible game.

It's not bad, it's an improvement over the first. But, Ubisoft tried to make it less dull than the original, but in doing so they a) added too much stuff and b) made it too easy.

[frogbeastegg]

Assassin's Creed II was popular here when it was new. A lot of us played and liked it. Don't really know where the sudden negativity has come from. Don't buy the PC version. DRM, evil, etc, as already said many times over in this thread.

Creed 1 was nice. Not great, not lousy. I think it's an atmosphere game, you have to enjoy rambling around for the sake of seeing the sights. If you don't enjoy doing that, or if you follow the plot through without much diversion, you'll find it very repetitive and limiting. My completion time was around 5 hours longer than the ones most who disliked the game were reporting, so I guess that's how long I spent soaking up the sights.

Neither's perfect. Creed II fixes a lot of Creed 1's problems. However Creed II follows on directly, it's opening cutscene is a literal continuation of the first's ending, so you need to play both for best effect. With regard to difficulty I found them both very similar, which is to say very easy excepting a few spots that were tougher than the rest.

What can I say? The games tickle my 'historical wandering around a big city and soaking up the sun' bone. There aren't any other games quite like them.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I think a lot negative feedback regarding blockbuster games (and I mean generally and not necessarily AC2) is a reaction to the hype and following blisteringly-high review scores that such a huge-budget game inevitably gets. If it cured cancer as it was advertised some of the flaws would be less offensive. But maybe I'm projecting (generally speaking, I've only ever watched a little bit of each Assassin's Creed games).

[Vuk]

Maybe I am just the odd ball, but I hated AC I+II. IMHO it had unimaginative gameplay, horrible story-line, pitifull level design, horrible voice acting, etc.