Very Good, with minor problems
posted by spaceface7 (NORTH AURORA, IL) Mar 7, 2012
Member since Apr 2010
Assassin's Creed 2 is by no doubt, and amazing game. The story plot is immense and will keep you guessing, with gameplay with stabbing people like crazy. However, there are many flaws in this game.
First off, the graphics... are just awful; I'm sorry. Assassin's Creed 1 looked better than this. The cutscenes are very wobbily, and the voices are almost never perfectly sycned up with the characters.
Secondly, the controls are also terrible. Near the middle, there is a part where you have to scale a large tower, and there is a post you have to jump to. I think I died about 13 times before I finally made it; I had to restart the entire level if I died which was incredibly frustrating.
Last but not least, the game has rather poor "assassin" techniques. You cannot even sneak, or crouch down. Well you can, but if you want to move, you're going to freerun all the way to your target. But all aside, it just doesn't really make you feel like an assassin. It has a VERY cool hidden blade which really comes in handy, but it would still be nice to have that "shadowing" effect over a target, like they start getting paranoid of their surroundings. It seems more of the time I'm just a guy who enjoys to try to stab people, then have to run an entire mile away from the guards, and then come back to my target.
However, the levels are extremely fun, and well laid out (despite the tower climbing level I mentioned), and there is plenty for the player to do, from finding ancient Codex Pages, to scourging through old Assassin Relics.
This game is very good, and is a must play for any Xbox Gamer, however, it is only worth the rent.
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