I want to play this game. Jim's review doesn't frighten or enrage me. I want to assassinate some fools.

Good game that improves upon it's predecessor in every way is good.

I feel both enraged and frightened by this DLC.

Please be free =[

Bet you anything these will be included for free with my PC version in March. Waiting has some benefits at least.

I'm just pissed my 1000/1000 will become a 1000/1200 or whatever.

"for for" just like a "fap fap"? :D

I'm not quite sure what the mission replay complaint means. Are you referring to to declining a side quest and then not having the ability to start it up later or something?

ty ty. I was unaware of that, I beat the first, roamed around a while and shelfed it. AC2 I'm doing all my roaming around while the story is in progress to prolong it.

Can't wait! There is a part of Venice I can't enter, that is probably where the DLC is. Which means that this stuff is on the disk, but locked away. Fuck.

This is slightly off the topic of the article, yet still seems like the right place to say what I must.
Plus, I only surf through the front page, so I'm commenting when the game came up. Not sure why I wasted your time with those needless details other than I enjoy the God like power of knowing I stole a piece of your life, if even for a second.

But enough about my meglomania. Anyone still on the fence for AC2, all those glitches or weird control issues Jim talked about? All accurate. It's there and as bad as he said.
And the game is buggy as hell and froze on me three times so far with the 360 version with it downloaded onto the hard drive.

BUT, anyone into story, Jim's wrong on that (don't tell me opinions can't be wrong. Any not the same as mine are always wrong). There is a very deep and well thought out plot and great way of giving you bits and pieces on your own. It rips off De Vinci code a bit, but good stuff still.

And for all the gameplay glitches, it also has much bigger cities that look great and have variety, to an extent, and lots more to do and despite the occasional Tourettes brought on by bullsh*t control defect dying moments, it's still alot of fun and much, much better than the first game. Anyone into Prince Of Persia should come away happy and seeing it through to the end.

And you have to believe all this is an acurate accessment, because I'm the truth. And the truth is absolute. Yeah, there's that meglo poking out again.

And on a last, related to actual article note, I'm psyched for the download stuff. 2 gigs of stuff, that's like a quarter the size of the entire game! Whole new cities for me to kill whores in.

And I'm not sorry I rambled on and on, but I will tell you the reason. 24 pack of Dr. Pepper and no sleep in the last 53 hours.
I wish I were a meth addict. Because staying awake without drugs is friggin' hard.

And ending back on an Ass Creed note, how weird is it that when deliriously tired, I have played better and more flawless in AC2 than at any time I was rested.
So there's your secret. Play half asleep and it's an amazing game! Which likely isn't the endorsement Ubisoft would like to run on the back of the box.

There was some glitches and I died a few times from bad controls, but the game was phenominal. Everyone is entitled to thier own opinion, but I personally don't think that stuff ruined the game, I still love jim's articles though, even if I loved assassins creed 2 and thought bayonetta was bland.

@ Queiroga

Good DLC is awesome and takes the place of expansion packs. Bad DLC is horribly and I can't believe people buy it.

The key: support good DLC, quality and lengthy DLC, and do not support the rest.

I despise the fact that developers/publishers hold back content for the sole purpose of quietly inflating a $60 experience into an $80+ experience via DLC.

Sweet

@jeff
I'm playing it on my 360 and haven't experienced any control issues other than my own occasional dumb mistake, which is probably the control issues mentioned.

Also, I have a question regarding the ps3 version. I seem to remember hearing the first AC crashed a lot on the ps3 as well as artifacting, so I got AC2 for my 360 instead of my ps3. Does it have any of those previous issues?

@ryanbreck: For one, It's called Assassin's Creed II: Discovery. For two, If they're releasing the mission sequences as DLC, isn't that the, oh, I dunno, official version of the missing sequences? I would think so at least.

Possibly filling in those 2 empty slots?

@dmb6200: yes, sorry, I meant Discovery. My point still stands though. The gap in the memories has been accounted for already, and given that the titles of the dlc refer to actual historical events which have nothing to do with the plot of Assassin's Creed: Discovery, I'd be inclined to think it was new content. At the very least, the gap that everyone is complaining about has already been explained.

from wikipedia: "Assassin's Creed II: Discovery takes place during the gap in Ezio's memories which are not explored in Assassin's Creed II. It follows Ezio as he travels to 15th century Spain to free his fellow Assassins, who have been imprisoned under the guise of the Spanish Inquisition. In the process, he discovers that the Knights Templar are planning to sail west to discover the New World."

Assassins creed II is awesome epecially if u dedicate most of ur time on side quests and completing story missions here and there luv da GME!!! DLC should be more f*** awsome