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Assassin's Creed blowing up Twitter with assassination game photo

While I always thought Twitter was just a way to let people know what I was eating for lunch or passive-aggresively complaining about things, Ubisoft's marketing has other ideas. 

The Assassin's Creed II Twitter Experience has players (a.k.a. Twitter users) battling and assassinating each other online. All you need to do is register at the official site, which will then match you up with other Twitter users willing to play. Players will then essentially spam twitter with attacks, game masters picking up on words like "chop" and "hack," before being told of success or failure. 

The official site will allow you to track assassination attempts in real-time, as well as participate in an "Aggression Mode," which lets you attack up to five enemies at once. 

The site and "Twitter Experience" launches today at 12:00PM PST, so if you use Twitter, prepare yourselves for floods of messages like "Chop @xXAssasinBoyzXx" and "@EzioPlaya4Lyfe just got hacked."

[via GamePro]

 








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that1dude24's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:07
that1dude24
So... It's like ms-dos games all over again?
LOLFONDU's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:09
LOLFONDU
Twitter sucks
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:09
AgentMOO
Step 1, register
Step 2, spam twitter
Step 3, get unfollowed by everyone
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:09
Chris Carter
I can see a lot of ditzes stressing out over the wording "@EzioPlaya4Lyfe just got hacked".
Pushtrak's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:11
Pushtrak
Sounds rubbish.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:15
Ganjookie
I'm with LOLFONDU
phantomile's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:22
phantomile
I hate this crap. This is the reason I stopped using myspace and the reason I now hate Facebook. I was really hoping it wouldn't spread to Twitter as well, but I guess it was inevitable. *sigh*
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 13:57
Char Aznable
Wow, what a fucking awful idea. I will shun any Dtoid users that participate in this. SHUN, I say!
Feisty Goat's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 14:26
Feisty Goat
I won't be playing this. It just doesn't seem appealing to me. Typing a bunch of "Sword hit"@Twitteruser555 just doesn't seem like it would be fun. Maybe I'm missing something though. Although the idea itself is kind of interesting. Kind of a viral marketing that incorporates social networks. It would be interesting to see more evolved or in depth things like this in the future.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 20:49
Chronic Logic
Great as if Twitter couldn't get any worse.
Valthonis's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2009 21:32
Valthonis
What is it with companies seeing social applications as nothing more than a messaging layer for their cockamamie marketing programs?
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