Assassin's Creed 2

After a little trouble with the store (THEY SOLD ME THE CASE WITHOUT THE GAME INSIDE!!!) I finally got around to playing the new Assassin's Creed 2. In the beginning of the game we come across Desmond trapped inside his room/cell, before suddenly being rescued by the sexy blond nurse who was working for the assassins (big fuckin surprise). They get away after finding out that Desmond now is able to use special abilities that his ancestors were able to do (eagle vision, agility, ect.) and not to mention the fact that you get to finally fight and use all these abilities in the real life version.

As soon as you enter the machine, the very first thing you see (which is quite disturbing really) is yourself being born, and then being given a very messed up name that it makes you think how much free time the programmers actually had on thier hands (Ezio Audituerre de Firenze). I suppose they were also going for the educational outlook as well seeing as they used the help of archaeologists, historians and religious figures to create this game, giving out random details about people, places and events (i.e. I didn't realize that Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual with his money grubbing assistant).

But as the game progresses you learn that as you fight, you gain your weapons back and for every dude you kill, you get to rob them as well (not without the crowd booing and jeering you out while you do it, but still, money's money, right?) and you'll find PLENTY of it, having to buy pouches for medicine that you can buy, as well as maps, weapons, armor, ect.

But with this game I felt like it's nothing but a complete remake of the first, except just given more side items, side missions, view points and guards who'll look the other wafor a piece of ass (you can hire neighborhood prostitutes to distract while you make you're way around). Not to mention more BEGGARS!!!! I had fun beating down the old women that kept getting in my way in the first game and the crazies who would randomly attack you in the streets, but now they replaced them with mandolin playing bards!!!

The weapons interesting to experiment with, the tactics of killing are fun (poison, dissappearing acts of guards near a pile of hay and of course, the hidden blade techniques when you wanna catch someone off guard, or make a great entrance with when getting into a fight.

Overall, I give this game a B+. It's a good game, but it's practically an overdone Assassin's Creed 1!!!

Merry Christmas and Hy New Year
~Negi~