Thursday, 15 March 2012

Videogame review: Assassin's Creed II Downloadable content


The lost memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

The two downloadable expansion of Assassin’s Creed II caused quite a stir in the internet at the time. The point of contention was that this content was already present on the game disk and that what we were downloading was just an unlocking code.
Now while I honestly can understand why it did upset many people in hindsight is this that bad? With multimillion productions like this one the game companies of course plan their downloadable expansions quite in advance; they certainly don’t start them after the game is shipped! The only difference here is that Ubisoft has been upfront about it and simply put everything on the disk.
Now on to the games itself they are a nice, if not really that exciting, addiction to the game world. They are basically more of the same, which is certainly what you expect with an expansion.
My only gripe is the overreliance, mainly in “The battle of Forli” on fight sequences. I’m sure that somewhere there is somebody who plays Assassin’s Creed for the swordfights but the rest of us are here for the stealth killing and the parkour style roof hooping.
In the end they are a nice addiction to the main game but not really indispensable.

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