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Ubisoft........
I played the original Assassin's Creed, I really enjoyed it beside a few things I will get to in a bit. But I just recently picked up Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed 2. And I must say I am extreamly disapointed with Ubisoft.
Why you might ask?
Lets start out with gameplay, shall we?
(If you don't want to read my paraghraph, there is a summary underneath)
Prince of Persia, it's a very pretty game they way it's cell shaded, the enviorment and everything else going on is very pleasing to the eye. But that said, 14 hours plus of repeditive wall jumping and puzzle solveing is more then I can take. When you play as the Prince you can do some fancy moves, but I feel that the game is forceing it on me. Unlike Assassin's Creed, you have to time your button pressing perfectly, and if you don't the result is instant death followed by Elika (your companion) takeing you back to the begining of the sequence; which is often 3 mins plus sequence. Adding to that each level is very repeditive, you do some jumping and wall climbing, then you enter a puzzle sequence, followed by more jumping ending up with a boss fight, you think it's over right? NO! The game forces you to go back over the section you just played over in order to collect these glowy orb things that have no purpose what so ever. Then you have to deal with 14 plus hours of this!
In short, gameplay is very repeditive among other things and seems like the game forces certain things onto the player.
The Orignial Assassin's Creed, some people complained it was repeditive. But I disagree, yes the set up leading to the assassination was run through plenty of times. But the assassination and sometimes a chase was very rewarding. Each assassination felt different, and Ubisoft did a good job on that. How ever beyond that their was'nt much to do beyond replaying your assassinations.
This leading up to the sequal, haveing played the original I came in with high expectations. I was expecting similar assassinations with more sidequests, a awesome soundtrack and replayable memoires. Don't get me wrong it was a fun game, but I was blown away at the gameplay changes. Every assassination was dumbed down so all of them felt the same, they all carried out the same way very bland. Because each assassination had their own different element that was in the form of a open world. This time every assassination was vorced apon you in a story sort of mode where you had to follow what the cut scenes told you to do. For instance, you had to kill a city offical on a ship. You could have snuck around plulled him over the side, thus drowning among other things. But the game wanted you to stand their and shoot him with a pistol. Not very satifying is it? Adding to that the enemies where not as memorable as those Knights and Arabs in ther first game, and although fun to look at and experience combat got easy and a little worn out. The worst thing being that you can't replay your favorite assassination, you have to work your way up to that point from the begining of a new game.
In short, every assassination was not as unique and freeform as the first; enemies wern't as good/memorable and you can't replay your favorite assassination.
Now it comes down to plot.
Yargh, thar be spoilers ahead!
Prince of Persia, this plot is not related to the previous installments (which I could care less about). But some where else in Arabia or something our hero, The Prince meets up with some hott girl name Elika. Eventually Elika tells the Prince that her crazy father is releaseing some "evil" god named Arimahn , who is inprision behind a magic seal. So Elika and The Prince go around fighting the god's minions in effort to repair the magic seal. The plot is fine until... After 14 hours of corny diolauge The Prince confronts Arimahn; defeates him and repairs the seal. But in the process Elika dies. So as the credits roll, The Prince places her on a memorial alter. Game over right? WRONG! What Ubisoft had in mind was they wanted you to develope a relationship with Elika, mush like you do with Valve's Alex Vance, but fails. Leaveing the player in a WTF moment. So the game compells you to save Elika by releaseing the god Arimahn. Doing this will undo 14 hours plus of hard repeditive work, thus accomplishing nothing! And the Best Ubisoft gives you is "To be continues"!
In summary, at the end of them game you undo 14 hours plus of hard work in under a min, thus accomplishing nothing, and Ubisoft leaves you hanging with NO ending.
Assassin's Creed
The game would have worked without the whole 2012/Desmond/Templar subplot. Not that I have a problem with it, all I am saying it would have worked well just playing as Altair. But anyway the plot is good, diolauge is well done, plot makes some sence. Assassins are fighting Temlars; trying to stop the fighting between Crusaders and Arabs; while trying to find "Peices of Eden", which at this point is a total mystery. And even with the subplot is works well. But like Prince of Persia, the game has no ending. Ubisoft leaves you hanging stairing at a wall with blood on it!
Assassin's Creed has no ending, beyond that it is a very fun game.
Assassin's Creed 2
This is what really bugs me, Desmond gets rescued by the Assassins and relives the memories of his ancestor Enzio. Although very fun, Ubisoft did'nt incorportate the plot very well. Fist your getting revenge on this guy (who's name you can't pronounce), next thing you know is that other people you haven't eve heard of or can remember are related to him and need assassinating. So really up till Venice/Rome all yo know is the guy you wanted revenge on is related to a Templar plot that is never fully explained. So the villian in this game is the Pope and that fact that he is the pope is just sprung on you at the last second, lots of things our sprund on you at the last second. For instance you do a mission with Leonardo Da Venci and there is a cut sceen with Enzio is sitting on a bench and Leonardo Da Venci and Enzio says " Hey friend, it's been years sence I saw you last" and the player is like "Wait, I was just with you a few seconds ago". In addition there other plot holes one is when Enzio is stabbed and out for a few weeks, but the Pope stabs him yet Enzio is just fine. But never mind that plots holes like above are nothing comapared to the ending.
After the fist fight with The Pope (best part of the game btw), it is revealed to you that the current race of Humans are actually ancestors of ancient race of space fairing people, and that somehow they all died due to the fact of Global Warming and the Sun going supernove (something to that effect). Next the game tells me my religion as well as every other is false and is all a load of bull. Explaining that each religion is based "Myths of the Peices of Edin". In addition to that we get to know the Assassin's Creed that says phrases similar to Daoism. Saying that "...there is no truth, and each people must find their own way" I mean what a load of Bull****, if we had that it would be anarchy saying that everything is socially acceptable. The whole game turns out to be an ancient alien/2012/kingdom of the krystal skull prophasy.
In short, Earth was founded by a Ancient Space Fairing Civilization, they created out Human race along with the peices of Edin, they where stupid so Global Warming and the Sun caused the Sol 3 to go Bananas killing lots of people, over lots of years they rebuilt (useing flax and barley) and created our race of Humans, and the pyrimids and Aztec temples are giant landing pads for ancient starships, then in Stargate fassion the Humans revolt against these Ancient Race of people (they where propably Gould anyway), we drove them off the planet and they are extict, but the left their legacy for us "Peices of Edin", and due to that every I learn the people at Ubisoft tell me every religion is a lie, Desmond is somesort of prophet, the Templars are a cult and their "Death Satilite" is not the real problem, because the SUN WILL GO SUPERNOVA on Dec, 25th 2012.
Finally, Ubisoft DRM policy.
The whole thing is boarderline Communist! It is suppose to prevent piracy, but their is already pirated copies you can get on the internet. The only people who suffer are the honest people who pay for their product, but are plauged by Ubisoft server crashes and other Ubisoft bugs. In additions Ubisoft gets to monitor you when you log in, it is the equivilent of Bush's Wiretapping program, except that was justfied.
Thoughts and Comments? Feel free to barade me.
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