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Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 Expectations "Better, Bigger"

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GamingUnion.net writes, "GamingUnion.net spoke with Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal, the studio behind Assassin's Creed, at this week's GameOn: Finance conference. We asked Mallat what his expectations are for Assassin's Creed 2 compared to the original's sales and reception."
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Wilhelm - 47 days 13 hours ago
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Bigger, better, stronger, faster sequel? :)
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Saaking - 47 days 8 hours ago
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Epic said the same thing about Gears 2 and look how that turned out. I'll wait for some reviews first.
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ApocalyPS3 - 47 days 7 hours ago
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The reviews will be that PS3 struggles yet again to match its Xbox 360 counterpart due to "duh lamezt devz evar" or "teh devz dont no how to uze teh cell".
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The XBOT - 47 days 5 hours ago
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1.3 - Gow2 is great
I and many professional reviewers say that :) again Saaking. You fail, I own the 4 platforms. And play uncharted, gears of war and madword. I also can not wait for diablo 3. What kind of plastic gamer are you?
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zeeshan - 46 days 22 hours ago
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It just better not be the same damn thing repeating over and over again. I am playing the first game only now. While, I like the graphics, the cloud effects, the environment, combat, stealth etc. The gameplay gets boring because you have to do the same thing like 12 times. Climb the tower, save a citizen, collect flags, evesdrop. I hope the sequel won't inherit the mistakes from the first part.
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mephman - 47 days 13 hours ago
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Hmm, I'm not sure it'll top 8 million, but good luck to it.
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Kyll - 47 days 13 hours ago
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yeah, they set one hell of a bar for themselves
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Saaking - 47 days 8 hours ago
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The first one sold very well because of hype and there weren't that many good games. With MW2 in the same month, I'd say AC2 will sell around 4 million.
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mephman - 47 days 2 hours ago
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Not really sure I agree with that.

Assassin's Creed launched at the same time as Modern Warfare, Rock Band and Super Mario Galaxy. I'd say it has less competition this time.
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theroadtoruin - 47 days 13 hours ago
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inferior
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Dawn_Of_Ashes - 47 days 11 hours ago
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Here is how ubisoft montreal work, the do some sh1tty game (assassin creed 1 and farcry2 as exemple) and they know how sh1tty the game will be so they put everything on the visual aspect. After that the ubi staff kick in and overhype games that doesnt deliver most of the time!
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y4cub - 47 days 11 hours ago
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dawn of ashes i sorta disagree and sorta agree. the first assassins creed was an amazing game. now farcry2 is another story. that game sucked beyond measures. maps were rediculously big u could play online deathmatch for 30min straight and not run into a single player. the single play world was also far too big with far too little tasks. u couldnt find half of them and u had to drive forever aND a day to get places
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kydrice - 47 days 8 hours ago
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AC1 was horrible, I mean to each his own but seriously, the repetitiveness, the horrible voice actor for Altair, the ridiculous one button combat (I slaughtered an entire batallion of soldiers one afternoon in an allyway) no night/day cycle, HUGE cities with NOTHING to do in them, vast, beautiful countrysides with towns that serve NO purpose, soldiers for no reason what so ever point me out as an assassin when I had done NOTHING (wtf are they? men who stare at goats? can they read my mind?) AC2 looks like it will redeem AC1's failures though.
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kydrice - 47 days 8 hours ago
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I love what I'm hearing, it's as if they saw my huge rant on N4G about what could be improved on after my huge disappointment with AC1 and did everything I wanted. night/day cycle, more mission variety, more weapons. I think you got it right this time Ubi.
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mephman - 47 days ago
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Yea, I think they have to be commended for actually taking user feedback on board in a big way. Not many other developers do that.
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Escamotage - 46 days 19 hours ago
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Yeah it's evident that AC2 will be bigger better, assuming more variety. But that doesn't imply that it won't be repetitive again. The solution to making a good AC2 game is not just improving what they already have but changing what doesn't work. The variety can't just be about the gameplay, it needs to be about the missions and story as well.
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dennis580 - 45 days 15 hours ago
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8 - Um Saaking you are forgetting the COD4:MW also came out the same month as AC1
Um Saaking you are forgetting the COD4:MW also came out the same month as AC1, and even though COD4:MW blew AC1 away in sales it didn't seem to effect it much; not only that, but AC1 had a lot more competetion in Nov 2007 then AC2 will have in Nov 2009, as most of the big games have been delayed til 1st quarter 2010 usually Nov is jam packed with big games, but that is certainly not the case this Nov.

The big question about AC2's sales is there was a TON of people dissapointed with AC1's repetitiveness. Will most of those people give AC another chance. That is the big question, and we dont know the answer to that question yet.
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dennis580 - 45 days 15 hours ago
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Also of note is that a LOT more people have PS3/360 then they did in Nov 2007 that will probably help offset some or maybe most of the people who bought AC1 but was very dissapointed.
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