[Caael]

Source: "Xbox 360 World Magazine"

"Assassin's in Venice?
'Creed 2: nobody expected the Roman inquisition...

Assassin's Creed 2 has entered focus testing, and the testers can't help flapping their lips about according to a 'net report this past month. It's not uncommon for Ubisoft to test games with the help of random Montreal residents to check for accessibility issues. Testers are led to a dedicated focus test room- which we've visited ourselves, as it happens- and are NDA'ed up to the eyeballs and forbidden to speak about the game anywhere...except one NDA-busting source claims to have sat through footage of Assassin's 2 in preparation for its debut later this year.

The game is said to look very similar to the original, but is now set in fifteenth century Venice, which would place it around the time the Inquisition was doing its thing across Europe. Testers were asked to chose between three character designs for the Venetian Altair, named 'Ezio' (for 'Eagle') in sketches. The new Altair can swim, use gunpowder-based weapons, and disguise himself when he fancies playing Beadle-style pranks. Or killing people, presumably."


So what do you guys think? Sound legit enough?

[Nosferatu]

What's the term I'm looking for...

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Caael]

Well I'm questioning it myself, I'm not saying that it's 100% true.

[Legolastom]

Yeah I heard about this from a number of places. Would be cool if it is in that setting.

[Ironsight]

Caael, on Mar 23 2009, 02:06 PM, said:

The game is said to look very similar to the original, but is now set in fifteenth century Venice, which would place it around the time the Inquisition was doing its thing across Europe.

I didn't expect this.

[Someone Else]

Legolastom, on Mar 24 2009, 08:32 AM, said:

Yeah I heard about this from a number of places. Would be cool if it is in that setting.

Same. Seems plausible but I wouldn't take it for any more than a rumor yet.

[Split Infinity]

Miley Cyrus, on Mar 25 2009, 04:48 AM, said:

I didn't expect this.

...Nah, too easy.

Sounds like they're pulling an Age of Empires. Next game, 19th century London?

[Mallick]

there won't be a next game, methinks. by then ubisoft will be belly up >:

[Someone Else]

I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet.

http://assassinscree...creed-2/teaser/

[Nosferatu]

I was gonna, but then I decided people's hands here need some exercise so I thought **** it.

But we all know Toasty's hand doesn't need anymore. Amirite or amirite?

[Caael]

The first thing I noticed was the 18+ in the corner, which hopefully means dismemberment.

[Someone Else]

Nosferatu, on Apr 8 2009, 07:44 PM, said:

But we all know Toasty's hand doesn't need anymore. Amirite or amirite?

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/WindDude/HighFiveDrunk.gif

[Caael]

I ****ing love Flight of the Conchords.

[Legolastom]

Caael, on Apr 9 2009, 03:50 AM, said:

The first thing I noticed was the 18+ in the corner, which hopefully means dismemberment.

That's a good way to ruin the game.

[Caael]

Well what else would 18+ mean? You wouldn't really have drugs or sex in game about a 14th century assassin.

[Legolastom]

And you would want limbs flying every where completely ruining any credibility the game might have?

[Caael]

Not in a major way, just like as a new combo. I dunno.

[Drizzy Drake]

Nosferatu, on Apr 8 2009, 10:44 PM, said:

I was gonna, but then I decided people's hands here need some exercise so I thought **** it.

But we all know Toasty's hand doesn't need anymore. Amirite or amirite?

I love you.

[Ironsight]

Caael, on Apr 9 2009, 07:23 AM, said:

Well what else would 18+ mean? You wouldn't really have drugs or sex in game about a 14th century assassin.

Drugs and sex existed back then, didn't they?

[Caael]

No ****, but how would they exactly fit them into the gameplay/story? Raiding opium dens is understandable but raping prostitutes or whatever?

[Split Infinity]

God of War comes to mind.

[Caael]

New info

http://kotaku.com/5206309/assassins-creed-...s-game-informer

Quote

Seems some people are getting early copies of this month's issue of Game Informer. You know. The issue that has a ton of details on Assassin's Creed 2.

Provided, of course, that this is all correct (we haven't seen the magazine ourselves), here's some of the stuff you can expect from the sequel to one of 2007's biggest games:

- Your range of weapons has been greatly increased, with new armaments including two swords, two "smaller blades", a mace, spear and an axe.

- No more silly drownings, as Altair can now swim.

- As expected, Da Vinci's workshop features in the game (it's set in 1476), and yes, you'll be gliding around on those wings of his.

- The game stars real characters of the time, including Machiavelli and Florence's powerful Medici family

- There are now "16 unique mission types". And, thankfully, no more pickpocket or eavesdropping ones.

- Tracking down hidden flags will now net you in-game rewards, rather than a simple sense of self-satisfaction.

Those are the most interesting parts. You can read the rest of it over on ScrewAttack, who have the full run-down.

:D

[Someone Else]

From ScrewAttack.com itself:

*SPOILERS possibly?*

- You'll have a ton of new weapons to choose from including an axe, a hammer, a mace, a spear, 2 different sword types, a spear axe, and 2 smaller blades
- You CAN swim
- Da Vincis workshop is in the game
- Locations include Saint Marks Basilica, The Grand Canal, The Little Canal, and the Rialto bridge.
- The game opens in 1476, Altair is from 1191
- So you do indeed play as a new ancestor of Altair / Desmond
-You will see the countryside of Tuscany
- The "Auditore" family is mentioned
- The main characters name is Ezio Auditore de Firenze
- He is a nobleman of Florence
- Big characters are in the game including Machiavelli, Caterina Sofrza, and Lorenzo de Medici
- YOU DO INDEED GLIDE on Da Vincis flying machine.
- Game will feature a new notoriety system that governs how enemy soldiers and people will treat you.
- You can disarm enemies and use their own weapons against them this time.
- Each weapon has a special move.
- 16 unique mission types.
- No more ease dropping or pick pocketing missions.
- If you get beat up to much you will need to see a street side doctor to regain full strength.
- Hidden objects (like flags in the first one) are there to uncover but this time if you track them down you will get in-game bonuses that make it worth your time.
- Items include, flags, statues, and gold coins and more that isnt mentioned.
- New enemy types with unique attitudes and weaknesses are present in the game. Archers are mentioned, as well as elite enemies, dagger wielders, "Brutish" armored troops with heavy armor and 2 handed swords and axes, and an intelligent halberd enemy will probe hiding places with their weapons if they think you're near by.
- While hiding in a hay bail you can assassinate people this time, but it may expose your position.
- You can still climb towers and ride horses
- The Lorendo de Medici assassination attempt is in the game.
- There is now a night and day sequence in the game.
- 240 people are working on this title.

[Caael]

New Altair: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/04/assassinscreed2mainch.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/04/assassinsgicover2580.jpg

Glad they retained most of his normal look...looks sexy :D

[Someone Else]

God damn, looks BADASS.

This looks promising, the only nagging doubt I have is repetition. Most of Ubisoft's open-world stuff is not bad, but repetitive. Assassin's Creed 1, Far Cry 2...

[Caael]

The DaVinci wings better be awesome looking because I imagine a clunky wooden set of wings would ruin his image a little.



Edit: http://www.screwatta...HardNews/041009Nomnomnomnom screenshots

[Someone Else]

http://www.gametrail...ies/313634.html

Kind of a cool little gimmick.

Those of you with a webcam and a printer can do this too.

[Caael]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/4098/48700.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7041/48704x.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8014/48706t.jpg
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9021/48708.jpg
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4418/48711.jpg

:P

[Caael]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvJfkegvcCw...player_embedded

[Someone Else]

Got some GamePro scans.

Gogo

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc208/C...24192880717.jpg
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc208/C...24192907556.jpg

[Nosferatu]

http://kotaku.com/5285165/assassins-creed-...-flight/gallery

Hey lookit. It's a revive, with PICTURES.

[Legolastom]

Is this all the E3 AC2 stuff?

[Legolastom]

Dev diary number 1 is up.

[Nosferatu]

Hey, I was browsing the newly revealed achievements and looky what I found.

Spoiler

Arrivederci Abstergo
-Break out of Abstergo - 20GS

[Caael]

O shi-

[Legolastom]

Oh my... good thing about AC1 was that I went into it without any prior research or knowledge of the game or its plot, I don't think AC2 will afford me the same experience.

[Caael]

Yeah I'm really gonna have to stop reading all the hype for this because no doubt I'll be dissappointed. However, seeing as it's only improving upon the ACII formula and not really removing anything, it should be good.

[Someone Else]

This game comes out tomorrow in US, and in three days for Europeland. Who's buying? Not me, but not because I don't want it.

[Caael]

Pre-ordered, and will be mah last game I buy until ME2.

Will tide me over for a while, especially with the customisation stuff.

[Someone Else]

I've just been informed of an amazing deal at Toys R Us today.

"Toys R Us will give you $20 towards purchase of a second game. Assassin's Creed then also has a deal with Toys R Us (though I don't know if it's only with Toys R Us) where you will get a $20 store credit. On top of that if you spend over $75 you get another $10 back."

Source is GameFAQs, but I've been told about great deals at Toys R Us for games lately (I guess Toys R Us wants to get into the game retailer biz) from reliable sources so this is probably legit.

That's basically two games for 70 bucks vs. 120 bucks. So... tempting...

[Someone Else]

Caved. Will post impressions within a day.

[Someone Else]

AC1 + 10x :joy: - stupid/quirky stuff = AC2

In other words, if you liked AC1, GET IT. If you didn't like AC1, get it anyway, because it's greatly improved. In particular, the notoriety system works really, really well. I wonder if Ded Read Deremption will use something similar...

But be prepared. Lucy (the main chick) is fugly. She looked a little weird in AC1, but not too bad. And she actually looked almost pretty in the screenshots this time, but in the actual game when the faces are animated... my GOD, she looks like she has down syndrome.

edit: Oh and this game is actually funnny.

[Mallick]

It's-a me! Mario!


Uncle Mario?

[Nosferatu]

Someone Else, on Nov 18 2009, 06:54 PM, said:

AC1 + 10x :joy: - stupid/quirky stuff = AC2

In other words, if you liked AC1, GET IT. If you didn't like AC1, get it anyway, because it's greatly improved. In particular, the notoriety system works really, really well. I wonder if Ded Read Deremption will use something similar...

But be prepared. Lucy (the main chick) is fugly. She looked a little weird in AC1, but not too bad. And she actually looked almost pretty in the screenshots this time, but in the actual game when the faces are animated... my GOD, she looks like she has down syndrome.

edit: Oh and this game is actually funnny.

Soooo I just finished the game.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Too many questions and shit. Complicated conspiracies and shit. Also, some of The Truth is pretty tricky. I had a hunch on the last one and got it right.

GoTY worthy in everyway.

[Someone Else]

Yeah I'm having a hard time following the story, but I'm still interested in it.

Nos I gotta ask, do you enjoy your games when you beat them in like a day?

[Nosferatu]

Someone Else, on Nov 19 2009, 10:26 PM, said:

Yeah I'm having a hard time following the story, but I'm still interested in it.

Nos I gotta ask, do you enjoy your games when you beat them in like a day?

Actually this was... 3 days. Says something bout the game if I can power-game it for 3 days to finish it.

But yessir. I prefer my sessions un-interupted and satisfying. Like Caael when he masturbates.

Mallick says (10:58 PM):
as opposed to you who likes it to be interrupted and disappointing
Hurray! More things I find awkward to do this week. Oh joy. says (10:59 PM):
Damn straight.

[Someone Else]

Nosferatu, on Nov 19 2009, 10:57 PM, said:

Says something bout the game if I can power-game it for 3 days to finish it.

Wow, that's a nice length.

Alright, two things about this game that I would change, they're small:

• You can kill hundreds of guards, get 100% notoriety, but if you tear down just four flimsy wanted posters you crimes will be completely forgiven and forgotten, and you'll back down to 0% notoriety. I think that's a bit lame, tearing down a wanted poster should only subtract 10% notoriety, just enough to make petty crimes like stealing or annoying a guard be forgotten but not enough to make a difference at higher levels. To me, it just doesn't make sense to bribe a herald with 500 florins to lower notoriety by 50% when tearing down two posters for free has the same effect. In fact, tearing down posters could even be ruled out as an option past 50% notoriety or so. After a certain level of notoriety, it would make more sense to deal with the source of my notoriety directly than something externally, in this case, wanted posters.
  
• The combat system is the same as AC1 more or less, but with a lot of additional moves and weapons, which really works great. There is a way to break the combat system now (I don't mean countering) to make every fight winnable, though (as far as I know, I don't think I've fought every enemy type) and that's a problem I have with it. I won't give it away, but you guys will probably find it. At the least, fighting this way isn't any fun so I never us it, so it's not a big deal.

Game is AMAZING, this has been a good year. That's three games that have blown my mind this year, and potentially four if I love Dragon Age, which I probably will. Usually I'm lucky if I find one game that I really, really enjoyed.

[Mallick]

Someone Else, on Nov 20 2009, 12:42 PM, said:

Game is AMAZING, this has been a good year. That's three games that have blown my mind this year, and potentially four if I love Dragon Age, which I probably will. Usually I'm lucky if I find one game that I really, really enjoyed.

Dragon Age will disappoint you, trust me.

[Caael]

Nosferatu, on Nov 20 2009, 07:57 AM, said:

Actually this was... 3 days. Says something bout the game if I can power-game it for 3 days to finish it.

But yessir. I prefer my sessions un-interupted and satisfying. Like Caael when he masturbates.

Mallick says (10:58 PM):
as opposed to you who likes it to be interrupted and disappointing
Hurray! More things I find awkward to do this week. Oh joy. says (10:59 PM):
Damn straight.

I can combine the two by wrapping the controller cord around my cock. Feels good man <3

But yeah, just played the game for 8 hours straight, stopping only for piss breaks, eating and drinks. It's so good, from what I've played so far, it's taken over Borderlands as my GOTY candidate. From the 8 hours i've played, it's been the most enjoyable game I've played all year.

[Someone Else]

Captain Cannabis, on Nov 20 2009, 01:46 PM, said:

Dragon Age will disappoint you, trust me.

If it's what Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 tried to be (which is what everybody's said) I'm sure I'll enjoy the hell out of it.

[Caael]

Just beat act 5, the bit in Tuscany where you're climbing towers to Assassinate people <3

So many ways to kill people, do you jump on them from above? Throw knives at them? Or poison one of them and let him do the work. It's genius, I love this game.

[Someone Else]

The music for the racing side missions is epic.

Second, I'm surprised how useful poison is. I thought I'd never use it, but it's come in handy a couple times.

I wish smoke bombs were more helpful. It's not that they're useless, as they do what you'd expect them to do, no more and no less. But running away from guards isn't hard anyway.

Also annoying, apparently throwing a throwing knife makes a loud noise.

[Caael]

Ending is a huge WTF moment, but the rest of the game was pure gold. Definitely worth my money. Also, poison I also find is really useful. I like to poison seekers with their spears so they end up knocking all their fellow guards around, although Brutes are jokes to poison as well; poisoned one in a huge group of about 6 guards and he killed 2 others in 1 blind swing of his axe.

Also, the feeling of immense satisfaction you get when going through a secret area completely undetected is amazing.

[Legolastom]

Oh my god, the polearm /spear that some guards carrying has some of the best finishing moves in the game, countered another guard (That also had the polearm) and Ezio smacked it out of his hand and then impaled him RIGHT IN THE FACT with the polearm, and it stayed impaled in his face on the floor.

[Someone Else]

The inabilty to actuallty sneak around in this game is getting annoying. Assassin's Creed has the espionage aspect down about right, bar the notoriety system that could use a few tweaks. I try to sneak behind four soldiers all standing in a line looking in one direction to poison one of them, walking as slow as the game allows and when I'm two feet away they shout "ASS-ASS-SEEN". We also need to be given a crouch button or something so we can hide behind short walls and obstacles.

[Legolastom]

Completed the game, didn't manage to catch weegee though.

Also now I completed the game spoilers will be posted in this thread, so fuck all you bastards that are too busy playing MW2 to buy this game.

[Caael]

That was fast thomas, did you actually do anything aside from story missions JUST so you could complete it so nobody could spoil it for you?@ WD; use the blend to get right up to guards to poison one. Hire courtesans if it's still causing trouble.That was fast thomas, did you actually do anything aside from story missions JUST so you could complete it so nobody could spoil it for you?@ WD; use the blend to get right up to guards to poison one. Hire courtesans if it's still causing trouble.

[Nosferatu]

Caael is a failfag.

Also for anyone interested I have the OST.

[Legolastom]

Well first of all I bought all the house upgrades, and then money became trivial, so I bought everything else.

I did some other things, I think like get a few viewpoints, and get everything in the villa. Nothing else though, wanted to experience a game with a good story myself for once.

A few problems I have with the game:

1. Death speeches, I loved them in AC1, you get nothing now.

2. The Templars: "Hurrr we are Templars we are evil bad men huuuurr" nothing like the morally ambiguous AC1 Templars.

3. Being able to block with the your hidden blades removes the fun and challenging aspect of using them in AC1.

Overall a big improvement over AC1, but these were major problems for me and are reasons why I cannot consider it an improvement over AC1 in every way.

[Caael]

I found combat overall harder because yes AI would stand around doing bugger all at points, but overall enemies were a lot more aggressive and the different enemy types was a welcome refresh. Many times I was being slashed to the ground by brutes, and then all the normal enemies would come in and attack me just as I was standing up.

However the final boss fight was a joke. "Punching" the pope to death? Come on.

[Someone Else]

Spoiler tags, bitches

[Legolastom]

Yeah Tim spoiler tags.

But yes overall combat was a lot harder, but it wasn't that difficult, my point was if you wanted more of a challenge in combat in AC1 you could try to use nothing but your hidden blade. In this that option was removed.

[gsninja]

So I just beat the game.

Spoiler

That ending was fucking terrible. Apparently it was something like that in ACI, but I dunno, I never played the ending to the first one. Doesn't change the fact that this crap with Minerva and everything was just...stupid.

At least there were two good parts to the ending: Ezio's tone of voice saying "What. The. Fuck." in Italian (che cazzo), and beating the shit out of everyone with Desmond.

Otherwise, I love this game. Had a ton more fun than what I played in ACI. The fact that ACII takes place in Italy already makes me like it tons better. All the environments in this game were done REALLY well. My mom, who was born in Italy like I was, but lived there for the first 2/3 of her life, recognized Firenze and Venezia immediately.

[Legolastom]

Also I hope the roofs in the next game look a lot different, felt like I was still in AC1 at times when running across the same Brown rooftops.

[Someone Else]

Uuuuugh that Bunker Glyph was complete bullshit. I seriously must have sat here an hour turning my brain to understand what the hell it expected me to do. Ubisoft trolled me.

[Legolastom]

http://www.youtube.c...0Q#movie_player

For anyone who wants to know wtf is happening, spoilers obviously.

[Nosferatu]

Sign up for UPlay. Seriously. You can get Altair to play as. Shaven, no ring finger etc.

Also the Auditore Family Crypt.

[Someone Else]

And DON'T get the Assassin's Creed 2 Dashboard if they have one. I got the theme for the PS3 and it looks terrible.

[Nosferatu]

I was leaning more to getting the Conviction one.

And DAMN I liked the fact that they finally mentioned Dante somewhere in the game. I knew he'd be an assassin.

[Legolastom]

Huuur hur we Templar we kill babies hur huuuuur.