Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
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.