So, a big game came out over the last few days, set in modern times where men fought men using guns, grenades and gillie suits. But Ubisoft knows better, because REAL men made Renaissance Warfare, using blades, knives and pointy objects on each other.
Those sentiments were reflected in Ubisoft's latest newsletter, encouraging "shooter fans" to "kill with skill" and preorder Assassin's Creed 2. To sweeten the deal for their "BFF" newsletter subscribers, the letter came with an Amazon.com promo code that knocks $5 off the game's preorder price. As of this writing, that price is $55.99, already $5 less than retail.
Ten bucks off for a preorder, not bad at all. Just check the image in the gallery for the code, then enter it during the Amazon checkout process.
Sorry, Palazzo Medici and Santa Maria Dei Frari, mad discounts speak louder than you!
[Thanks for the tip, Tylor!]
Contest:
10:00 PM on 11.11.2009
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Wait, wtf, Happy Killing!!?? THIS will cause controversy.
...I... like it.
Did you play the first one or assume because of the criticism that it was bad?
People news to learn to avoid hype. We have a blog about avoiding spoilers and now we need one for hype. Seriously AC1 wasn't THAT bad. It was just repetitive. The core of the game however wasn't really that bad. You people need to learn to plug out of the industry hype machine every once in a while.
All that said...yeah I'm renting it too. :P
Real men use stones to fend off dinosaurs and sabertooth tigers.
And the repetition (forced grinding?) was bad enough that Ubi had to come out and say that they're promising not to do it this time. If they need to indirectly apologize like that, then that's indication enough to me that the game had serious flaws.
Right now we have a lot of really good games out there, some of which are a few years old. The game consumer can pick and choose. If a game has enough flaws that its developers have to say, "Our bad!" that's a signal to me to look elsewhere for my gaming entertainment.
And the criticism came from multiple locations, not just Destructoid.
I think that Jurassic: The Hunted or whatever wins that award.
PUNCHING A MOTHERFUCKING RAPTOR IN THE FACE.
Right I know that.
But wouldn't prefer if a dev, no matter that flaw or it's size, come out and say they'd fix it in the sequel? I don't see how that has anything to do how big or small the flaw is. It means they're looking at the criticisms.
At the end of the day it's all about opinion and no one's right or wrong so there's no point in bickering. I'm just saying don't knock it 'til you try it.
That Ezio figure is too much awesomeness to be surpassed by a five bucks discount.
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Mike..
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