I personally have a love/hate relationship with the The Assassin’s Creed franchise. Whilst I thought the first instalment of the series was an over hyped exercise in style over substance, when Assassin’s Creed 2 came out, we here at The Newb Review fell in love with it. However, whilst my history with the series has had its ups and [...]
Tue, November 2 2010 » PC/Mac, Previews, PS3, Xbox 360 » 1 Comment
Following a barrage of trailers dedicated to the new multiplayer mode in Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Ubisoft have been kind enough to send along a trailer for the Brotherhood’s story line: The trailer depicts lead character Ezio Auditore venturing in to the city of Rome with a number of new abilties, including a parachute and being able [...]
Mon, October 18 2010 » Videos » No Comments
With the release of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood a mere month away Ubisoft has released trailers depicting two bonus characters for the game’s multiplayer. How do you access these characters? By preordering from either HMV or play.com of course. Pre-order character 1: The Harlequin Pre-Order character 2: The Officer Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood will be released on [...]
Sat, October 16 2010 » Gaming News » No Comments
Game: Assassin’s Creed 2: The Battle of Forli & Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations
Format: 360, PS3
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: Ubisoft
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series has a love-hate relationship with me. I was not the only one who to put it quite mildly, didn’t like the first instalment (my review of it can be found here: http://rt.nu/_d74sc) as despite it’s huge sales, every games critic under the sun gave it the good hard bashing it rightfully deserved. To my surprise then that last year Assassin’s Creed 2 released and not only did it garner huge sales, but this time it was good. Very VERY good in fact, a gargantuan improvement on it’s predecessor and subsequently it ended up being my personal game of the year (although I was out voted in The Newb Review “Game of The Year” awards, article found here: http://rt.nu/boju5y, by about a quadrillion to one).
So naturally, since I enjoyed the game so much I’ve decided to splash out on the 2 brand new(ish) DLC packs. Sequence 12, The Battle of Forli and Sequence 13, Bonfire of the Vanities & Secret Locations. Are they worth the money? Well, hold on…I’m getting onto that bit now.
Mon, March 8 2010 » PC/Mac, PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 1 Comment
Game: Assassin’s Creed 2 Format: XBox 360 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft In the world of entertainment there is an unwritten rule that sequels tend to be much worse than the original; the latest album from your favourite band is not quite as good as the previous album, your favourite author’s latest book just does [...]
Tue, December 1 2009 » PS3, Reviews, Xbox 360 » 7 Comments
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