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Pointing and laughing.
Just read a 6 page special on Assasins Creed II in PC Gameplay magazine. Must say that it looks and sounds great. The graphics on the screenshots are spactacular. They focus on the two cities of Florence and Venice with each their own themes and a the region of Toscany which lies in between. Venice for instance having missions within a carnival and thus giving you the chance to move undetected amongst parties and the like.
The missions themselves have become a lot larger and have more goals and submissions to be reached. They also included a lot more side missions and tasks to keep you busy and to build your character with. Interesting is that the game uses Leonardo da Vinci as a mentor and as some sort of gadget master. He even gives you a flying machine to use.
Your repuation plays a bigger role, with you needing to bribe officials, remove wanted posters and the like. As a matter of course they have added a lot more activities in the areas to keep you busy with. By completing them you get to enhance your character, although they didn't explain how.
You can now also swim, and not surprising with a city as venice, it will play a large role in the game. Allowing you to hide and move and drown npc's. The game now also boasts a day and night cyclus, which will have a large impact on your surroundings and the way the missions play.
The selection of enemy troops is expanded, with archers, knights, spearman and militia amongst them. You can now take their weapons off them and use such varied tools of mayhem as spears and axes against their former owners.
All in all it sounds very much like I expected assasins creed 2 to be. More of the same within a new timeframe and with some more possibilities, gadgets and goals. I enjoyed the first game, even though it felt a bit empty after awhile. It seems as though they picked up on that and have provided many more activities to spend time in between missions with. I must say that it doesn't look that much of a step forward, but a solid sequell that improves on it's original seems to be very much a possibility.
The missions themselves have become a lot larger and have more goals and submissions to be reached. They also included a lot more side missions and tasks to keep you busy and to build your character with. Interesting is that the game uses Leonardo da Vinci as a mentor and as some sort of gadget master. He even gives you a flying machine to use.
Your repuation plays a bigger role, with you needing to bribe officials, remove wanted posters and the like. As a matter of course they have added a lot more activities in the areas to keep you busy with. By completing them you get to enhance your character, although they didn't explain how.
You can now also swim, and not surprising with a city as venice, it will play a large role in the game. Allowing you to hide and move and drown npc's. The game now also boasts a day and night cyclus, which will have a large impact on your surroundings and the way the missions play.
The selection of enemy troops is expanded, with archers, knights, spearman and militia amongst them. You can now take their weapons off them and use such varied tools of mayhem as spears and axes against their former owners.
All in all it sounds very much like I expected assasins creed 2 to be. More of the same within a new timeframe and with some more possibilities, gadgets and goals. I enjoyed the first game, even though it felt a bit empty after awhile. It seems as though they picked up on that and have provided many more activities to spend time in between missions with. I must say that it doesn't look that much of a step forward, but a solid sequell that improves on it's original seems to be very much a possibility.
