How is such a thing possible? I did virtually back to back complete playthroughs (I stopped after unlocking the last chunk of Venice and grabbing all the feathers on the second play through) I love that game, it's everything the first should have been but wasn't. You can pickpocket, you can backstab, it's sweet as all get out, IMO.

Yes, well, repetitious eavesdropping and a hero with no character, and a story with no plot are preferable to some I suppose. Heh. As for "terrible graphics" you must have just despised the first one, because they're, oh, the same. Heh

I will concede that the faces in the cut scenes do not hold up very well, but Ezio's story and rise to uber-Assassin is much more interesting plot wise than Altair. Also, the repetitious side missions are way less annoying, because you don't have to do any you don't want to. All in all, I thought it was like 5 times better than the first one, even if it is a bit slow to start. Also, the semi annoying Desmond sequences are fewer and farther apart, and less annoying as you go. (I say semi annoying because the ideas and conspiracy theory stuff is fascinating, but the actual game play for said scenes is tedious) Once you get to DNA sequence 2 or 3 the game really picks up and just becomes more and more impressive as you go, really.

Having not played Batman or Infamous I can't say if they "do it better" or not (Though I hear great things about Batman) however if you think AC2 is "just like" AC1, you've obviously not played AC1 in a long long time, heh. While the similarity is enough that AC1 feels like a tech demo for AC2, the differences are in fact pretty significant.

Like most games the money system "breaks" rather quickly, you wind up having way more than you'll ever need.

As for AC1, it was pretty and kind of fun, but had flaws. Guards chasing you across an entire city on rooftops... only being able to blend with those slow and stupid scholars... and most of all, the repetitious missions that led up to the actual assassinations. By the time I was taking out the final target in Acre I wanted to cry at the idea of sitting on another bench or beating up a courier or whatever. Not to mention the random citizen be attacked constantly everywhere was highly annoying.

I was never bothered by the economic system, nor did I ever really find myself "wanting" for coins or anything. ~shrugs~ To each their own I suppose, but I feel like AC2 is far and away a better play than its predecessor, even if it is not as good as some other games (Batman AA) I have not had the luxury of trying yet.

::high five::

Mass Effect 2 coming! Yay!

I just hope the dragon blood armor is terrible in it, because after looking at that ugly graphic in dragon age so long I'm not sure I could make it through another game with it.

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SEND[Abasha] It warms my heart to see three people die for a cupcake.

I feel obligated to point out that just because a game has graphics does not mean that it's real life.

But don't you need a real life in order to see and critique graphics??!

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SEND[Abasha] It warms my heart to see three people die for a cupcake.

>>My friend got this game because the first was so entertaining. We started it for the first time yesterday and turned the stupid thing off after twenty minutes of terrible graphics, painful dialogue, and long boring cutscenes.

The first twenty minutes really are terrible: reducing a game as unusual as AC1 into ten minutes of story review makes it sound terrible, and the cut-scenes (particularly the birth scene) painfully highlight the weakest points of the graphical engine.

I would encourage you to play through another twenty minutes. Once you become an assassin things start to pick up rapidly.

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