By now you may have already seen the E3 Assassin's Creed 2 trailer that we posted earlier today, but what you haven't seen yet is the actual footage that Sony showed off at the press conference earlier today. You can check that out now, which shows off both cutscenes and gameplay. I have to admit, it looks pretty cool to me despite the fact that I was kind of ambivalent about the first game.
Certainly looks awesome, but I want to know what they are doing about the side missions. I never didn't enjoy an assassination, so I expected them to be that cool.
AC1 could of been an absolutely amazing game, but we all know what happened. I'm still rooting for AC2 from the sidelines, but this video makes me want to rush on the field and give it a piggy-back ride. Double hidden blade assassination, better AI, it seems to be less artificial, more weapons/disarming/use enemy weapons, and smoke bombs all are looking like great steps in the right direstion. But that glider... hope it's not overused.
Oh hot damn, you know this is my jam! Keep my videogamin' till AM!
Every single new addition looks fantastic, and the city is breathtaking. I'd want to play it simply to wander around (and climb all over) late 17th century Italy!
I do hope they add some variety to the actual assassination missions, though; the final execution seemed so linear. Ubisoft should definitely take a page out of the books from Eidos's Hitman games for the remaining missions.
That looks awesome and really makes me want to play the first one. If only I could steal some time on my housemate's PS3. Too bad he's busy playing inFAMOUS at every free moment.
I had to struggle to play through Assassin's Creed aggressive monotony. But Assassin's Creed 2 pretty much won me over again. The only major gripe I have is that the combat looks way too slow.
Putting both your hands on a enemy's face and watching both your blades plunging into the guy's face is always great to watch. But I hope they learned the lessons from the first game and fix it for the second game.
This looks great, but I said the same thing about the first Assassins creed and only the first 5 hours of that game where great. So I approach with caution. A rental first.
I'm hoping they change those horrible, horrible, horrible briefing missions that consisted solely of you staring at your character while someone explained everything to you in the most uninteresting fashion to some more interesting cutscenes.
Hell, keep the boring delivery, but make the people involved do something other than just stand there and stare at each other.
you know what? FUCKIN' A. I'm really extraordinarily bad at the first one, but I'm looking forward to doing my particular brand of fail in this one as well.
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9:03 PM on 06.02.2009
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I can't wait to play this goddamn beauty!
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It's a looong time till November, I want to get my dirty little hands on this game.
Every single new addition looks fantastic, and the city is breathtaking. I'd want to play it simply to wander around (and climb all over) late 17th century Italy!
I do hope they add some variety to the actual assassination missions, though; the final execution seemed so linear. Ubisoft should definitely take a page out of the books from Eidos's Hitman games for the remaining missions.
Hell, keep the boring delivery, but make the people involved do something other than just stand there and stare at each other.
That said, this still does look fun!
GOOD E3 ANNOUNCEMENT YEAR IS GOOD.