Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy new year! (Oh, and a quick game snippet: AC2...)

We're starting to be done with all the crap that comes after moving; painting, putting stuff in their places, buying new (expensive!) household appliances, etc and I finally had time to do some gaming (the Xbox 360 was of course the first living room item I put in place after the TV, amp and speakers :D - even though I had the PS3 and OpFlash 2 to keep me company while we were living at our temporary housing before the move).

I took Assassin's Creed II for a little spin; All I can say is "wow". Just what I wanted. It's basically the first game with improvements all around. The awesome climbing / parkour is still there, so are the stealthy elements.

The fighting is much improved; the wrist blade is actually usable in combat (and quite effective), there's an inventory system (other than "you have X knives"), etc. Although, at points, it feels like the combat might be a tad too easy; you have little problem taking on half a dozen guards, something that you'd be running from, screaming like a little girl, in such early parts of the original game.

Maybe I'll just write that down as Ezio being a bigger badass than Altair... ;)

All in all, it seems like a very nice game. Though if you felt the first one was too repetititititive, this might not change your mind - even though there are improvements in that category.