[Gog]

Anyone else playing it? It's as if they took everything from the first & added a lot of nice stuff to it.

This post has been edited by Durty D: 04 January 2010 - 01:47 AM

[Sixstrings]

This is on my must get list. How are you liking it so far?

[Boba Sweat]

picking it up for the weekend. 1st one was probably the 1st game i got 1000/1000 gamerscore off of. Looking forward to it!

[Lord Malice]

Sounds like, from the reviews, that they took every single complaint and addressed it wholly and completely. I genuinely enjoyed the first game, but it's repetitive nature does become apparently pretty quickly. So I'm psyched that it sounds like we're in for 25+ hour game with lots to do.

[Darth Virul]

On my list.

[Gog]

I'm loving it. There is so much more going on so as to break up the monotony of the first (which I didn't mind in the first place). The main character is given a bigger background & story-wise, I'm liking it much more than the first. Could be because I understand a bit of the Italian language. There is even a nod to Nintendo at one part, but I don't want to give it away.

[Stormtrooper X]

I'm loving it. I've got 75% of the trophies but I can't seem to find where I can get his family cape from. It' driving me insane lol

[Sixstrings]

picked this game up and it is amazing. I am about 6 to 7 hours in and really loving it. I loved the first one but this is much better!

[Gog]

I can't wait to get my PS3 fixed, so I can finish this game. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[Boba Sweat]

never picked it up last week

after my xbox got banned for being modded, i've kinda fallen out with microsoft again, so the new ps3 slim gets delivered on thursday
with assassins creed, mw2, dragon age and pro evo

this game will be 1st in

[Euronymous]

This is brilliant. How awesome is the soundtrack? Especially when you're in venice?

It is a gorgeously crafted game, the attention to detail in each of the massive cities is mind boggling. The story is great, the level of history research these guys have done is incredible. Atmosphere is spot on. Even the fighting battle system is great.

Only small gripe I have is the controls. Ezio getting stuck on ledges and walls to sometimes jump the opppsite way to where you want him to go and fall to his death is pretty annoying. I reckon the free running was better half way through the game because closer to the end it feels like it's gotten worse. Anyone else? Small gripe nonetheless.


9/10 for me. Love it.

[Gog]

I do agree with you on the controls. Once in awhile I find myself jumping the wrong way. I find it has to do with my fingers not knowing whether to hold the R2 button down or not while jumping. But compared to the first game, they are a little tighter.

[Dom]

Do you need to have played through the first one to get the story in this? I do have the first, but I've barely played it.

[Sixstrings]

Dom, on 25 Nov 2009, 02:30 PM, said:

Do you need to have played through the first one to get the story in this? I do have the first, but I've barely played it.

They give you a little bit of a refresher in the beginning but it wouldn't hurt to at least read up on what happened during the first one. But you really don't need to have played it.

[Corbett]

I agree with Lord, about the repetitiveness, but it was still worth a purchase for me. I'll be getting the second.

[rogmancometh]

Everthing Ive read on the game said they fixed everthing that brought the first game down. I didnt like the first game because it was the same thing over and over. Even the towers looked exactly the same! Crap. This game is not like that so I'll get this one and hope its what I thought the first one would be...

[Boba Sweat]

got it, loving it

although he does seem to like to jump in random directions from time to time

[Euronymous]

Finished the story so now I want to find out about The Truth.

How do I find the buildings with the glyphs again? I passed them all the first time and now want to find the glyphs but nothing pops up when I run through all the cities again.

[Positively Kanyon]

Turn Eagle Vision on and go right up to the glyph to activate the puzzle. I've got all of The Truth videos, spooky stuff... Well worth the time.

This game is pretty awesome, just finished it and I need more AC2!

[Boba Sweat]

i'm 7 feathers and 4 glyphs off the platinum trophy. Pain in the arse to find now

[Sixstrings]

I am about half way through the quest and stopped to run around and find these. I only have like 20 feathers and a couple of the glyphs. Are they all high up on buildings?

[DeathLurtz]

Boba, are you finding them all on your own or are you using a map with all the locations on it? I can't imagine just happening upon all of them. There's just way too much area to search.

By the way, I just rented this game and am completely obsessed with it on a level that I haven't been with a game in a while.

[Boba Sweat]

the feathers i got some maps for. bollocks to looking for them on my own

got all the glyphs myself tho. just been running about in night vision when getting the feathers and when the wee red eye symbol comes up

[Reality]

Just finished the game today. Need a few more of the glyphs and nearly 80 feathers :/

But other than that, I loved the storyline. I only had one gripe with the game and that was dealing with the camera angle while trying to get to one of the assassin's seals.

[DeathLurtz]

I know!

Some of those angles they use are ridiculous.

That's a very Prince of Persia aspect to the game, but it's done so much better in PoP.

[Darth_Cyke]

I bought it, I loved it and I finished it. And now I want another ..... Damn it was good

[Durty D]

For a game that's suppossed to have made up for the previous incarnations sins the pacing in this one is way off the mark.

Spoils ahead:

I am up to the part where you meet your uncle - getting to this point has felt over instructional and very limiting. At least in AC1 you started with all your powers and had them taken off you for being naughty.

I'm sure the pace will pick up from here but it's been very boring so far. Haven't enjoyed the romeo and juliet Montague/Capulets rip off so far and i guess there's a reason for it being in there.

[Gog]

Durty D, on 4 Jan 2010, 01:39 AM, said:

I am up to the part where you meet your uncle

How could you not love "It's-a me, Mario!"?

Now that I got a new PS3, I am playing this again. It's fantastic. Much better than the first one.

[DeathLurtz]

The introduction to the game does take quite a while, but I don't think it takes away from it at all. You've pretty much reached the point where that stops, anyway.

I love this game, by the way. I can't stop playing it. I love just going around collecting things in games and there is plenty of that to do. I spend plenty of time in between missions just collecting treasures and doing all the extra things to do.

[Gog]

Today I reached the point I was at when my PS3 failed. I got the last seal (and armor) & just finished the Carnivale missions. Love it!

[Sixstrings]

I just finished it and I loved it. Once I have all the feathers I will probably just play through it again. Great stuff!

[DeathLurtz]

Yeah. I was thinking that I would probably just start over again after I finished it. I'm glad to know that someone who has finished the game still feels the same way.

[Gog]

Just 100% & got my third platinum trophy. (Little Big Planet & inFamous being the other 2)

The hardest trophy for me is "Sweeped", where you have to sweep 5 guards in one shot with a long weapon. I found the best place was at the Palace in Venice. There's a group of 4 guards walking around in front. One has a spear. Stab him & pick it up. Don't run or you'll drop it. Instead lock-on & hold block. Move a little to get the other group of guards that is walking around to see you & join in. After a block, wait a fraction of a second & hold the attack button for a second & sweep. It may take a few times until there is 5 close enough to get swept. That was the last trophy I got & the only one I got after the main story.

Awesome game. Loved this world better than the first game. Would play through again, but I have to give the game back to my friend. If it ever comes down to $20 (greatest hits), I'll pick it up for myself.

[rogmancometh]

This is a great game!

[Otanku]

This is a game I got for Xmas, but I'm juggling it with 2 other games right now (The Saboteur and Dragon Age: origins) so I'm not that far into it. I did complete the first major storyline and now am at the point where I'm at the "mansion" where it looks like you'll be able to build it up. One thing that I hope happens later in the game, but did not happen after the 1st main story assassination is that the story didn't take me back to the present time and give me that side of the story. That makes me wonder if I'm going to be playing constantly in the past and won't really get anymore "current world" interaction?? I hope not.

[Durty D]

Finished this mid-last week. Got all glyph's and 50+ feathers.


Spoilers ahead:

I enjoyed it after getting to the mansion. One thing that bugged me about the mansion was i had a **** load of money from doing all the side quests and so pretty much upgraded the whole place in one go and then there was nothing to do- but that damn architect was still in the room - go home knob head your work here is done.

Poor claudia too, she spent 10 years + counting Ezio's money lol.

[~Sixx~]

FYI...the first of two new DLC's comes out Tuesday. I believe it's the one where you back and help the Countess stave off an invasion of Forli.

[Ashaman]

Yea Durty I had the same "issue" I spent a good chunk of time getting all the treasures and doing everything I could before moving on and it seemed almost pointless. The discount you get at shops is dumb when I was racking in so much money for all the stuff I had that I hardly ever went back to the Mansion after getting beyond the point.

The storyline is great in this game though near the end it did get kind of repetitive and annoying to do it since it was a lot of here follow this person now kill! Fun but by the end it was somewhat blah to me.