OXCGN Writes:
"Assassin's Creed 2 was one of the top games of 2009, and our Game Of The Year, taking all that was good about the first game and fixing almost everything that was lacking.
Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is the novelisation of the game written by Oliver Bowden and while it is written well enough and fulfills the general criteria of re-creating the plot of the game in novel form, I can't help but be disappointed that it doesn't bring much new to the Templar versus Assassin story."
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AC3 was released during a turbulent transition period for Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed series. It ventured into uncharted territory, narratively and mechanically, which caused it to receive mixed reviews. At its core, though, it's a damn good stealth game.
Nope, I hated 3, connar was bland, literally the most flat character in the entire game. Not to mention to myriad of bugs, camera issues, and that annoying thing where he automatically ditches his weapon you payed for for the sake of a cool finishing move forcing you to trek back to your base after almost every encounter just to re-equip your own weapon. It just didn't work as fluidly as the others like 2 and 4
The series peaked at AC3 for me. It’s been my favourite in the series. Connor will always be one of my favourite video game protagonists.
No. Game was BORING. Connor was really dull. Environments, while impressive, because of the geographic location and time period were not really exciting to be in. I would love some kind of game set in there colonial American time period, but a game like AC that back then centered around parkour and vertical traversal really didn't fit those environments.
Nope
There was a lot of issues but mine is how they handled the war
They told us Connor was not going to get involved, that the war was more of a background setting for the real story and it wasn’t going to be one sided
They lied, even the cinematic E3 trailer showed Connor emerge from the Colonist side and slaughter the red coats to get to his target, inspiring the Colonists to fight back
I just thought it would have made more sense lore wise that the red coats were mostly compiled of Assassins fighting the Colonist templars who wanted to take the new world for themselves.
Since the Red coats lost the war, it would then explain how the Templars started to gain the upper hand and how on the future the assassins were mostly killed off and the Templar’s had pretty much taken over everything.
Instead it just felt like they didn’t want to p*** off the American audience
Even Haytham was cool, he should have been an Assassin through and through and should have been the main lead.
I’m one one of those weird people that liked Ass Creed 3, but to be fair I never got around to finishing it.
There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.
I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.
Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.
i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.
i actually liked Max haha.
the forspoken chick is missing tho
I saw this at my local Borders, think I might give it a read.
It'll be on my reading list as well, and as always, the writer knows his stuff, and is well worth the read.
This is how many major games should be followed through like. Bringing the different areas of interest together to please several mediums, getting the broader community interested in games, and to see that they are not the realm of pre-pubecent pimply faced kids in the bedroom.
"What kind of men are you? Doing the bidding of your paymasters for handfuls of loose change!…I wonder if you’ll think it was worth it after I’ve come up there, cut your heads off, pissed down your necks and shoved your faces up my figa! I’ll stick your balls on a fork and roast them over my kitchen fire!”"
LOL.
I ónly started seeing novels that were based from games last year. It is good to see that games are starting to go to other hobbys as well, like reading.
Cool review, would be good to see if more gaming sites reviewed the gaming books.