The hugely successful Assassins’ Creed franchise has been a huge hit on game consoles, with its mix of stealth, strategy and visceral combat. Part of what work in the series has been the ability to place its fiction in a myriad of historical time period. The first game had players controlling Altair in medieval Jerusalem [...]
For all my nerdy comic-book and video-game hoarding, I’ve never been a toy collector. I’ve got a beloved 7” Mego Batman from my childhood upon my bookshelf, but that’s about it. (Said Mego figure has had a hand-drawn Bat-symbol taped on its chest for three decades. The sticker fell off and was lost and dammit, [...]
I’m finally back in the saddle after a week in lovely San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference. GDC’s always a lot to take in but here are the things that made the deepest impressions on me.
Young daughter watches her father play “Assassin’s Creed 2″ on his Xbox 360.
Every year a handful of titles end up being in the “must-have” or “highly anticipated” category. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2 happens to fall under the latter umbrella for 2009. Is it a “must-have” for this year? It depends on who you ask to be quite honest. What Ubisoft did with the original Assassin’s Creed was [...]
The second coming of Ubisoft’s monster hit Assassin’s Creed is almost upon us. It hits stores tomorrow and while I’m writing this I’m also busy getting through our review build. It’s pretty epic and I’ll probably end up playing through the night. Rough life, right?
