I'm trying something new here that I'll hopefully be able to turn into a regular feature. The idea is I play a game for a little bit and write my immediate reaction to it. Once I'm a good deal farther into the game I'll write up another set of impressions, and finally once I'm finished with the game and have seen the credits roll, I'll post my final thoughts. We might find out that my gut reaction, final thoughts, and everything in between end up being the exact same, which is why I chose not to use Uncharted 2 for my first run at this. That game was fantastic right from the start and just got better and better. Instead I thought I'd give Assassin's Creed 2 and Modern Warfare 2's single player a try and see how varied each of the three articles are. If I end up saying the same thing three times for both games then I'll scrap the idea entirely. Hopefully though, I end up with an interesting progression, we'll see I guess. Let's get started.
So Assassin's Creed 2. I was one of the gamers that landed on the loving side of the Assassin's Creed 1 fence, I recognized it's flaws, but was willing to overlook them. That said, I am not willing to overlook them a second time. Everything I've read about Assassin's Creed 2, and the live demo I saw at PAX make me think I won't have to worry about that. However, I started the game up yesterday afternoon and played for about 2 hours. What I played sadly made me think it really is exactly the same, just in Italy 300 years later. The combat hasn't changed, the free running hasn't changed, and the missions have been a series of deliveries and boring escorts that involve nothing more than walking beside an NPC, at a crawling pace I might add. So I guess those two mission types are new....
Still, I have high hopes for this game. I had been avoiding the hype until I saw the PAX demo and have been super excited ever since. When I turned it off last night I still felt like the tutorial was just barely ending so I'm thinking the real game is about to kick off. I suppose that makes sense for such a huge open world game, but such a long intro was fairly tedious after so recently playing Uncharted 2's ridiculously engaging thirty second opening cutscene that ends leaving you in quite the precarious and playable situation. Hopefully when I give it another spin after work tomorrow I'll get to see all the cool stuff I saw at PAX, and more. I've seen hints of the all the good to come, but hints can only hold me for so long.
Anyway, there's the first thoughts, I'll post further middle impressions once I've had a bit more playtime under my belt. Expect an initial reaction to MW2 first though, since I already started that.
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