PS3
So, after much debate and pitfalls my roommate and I bought a PlayStation3.
Lemme tell you it was worth every penny. At this point we have Call of Duty 4, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (who didn't see that coming, she had it before I woke up the day after we got it), Viking, Genshi, and Assassin's Creed. While all the games have been fun I have just been stopping (sometimes to my detriment in combat) and gawking at the awesome graphics. It makes me sputter and nearly shit myself to think what the HD experience is like, and I haven't even bought the two titles I originally set my heart on the system for.
Definitly going to have to investigate that.
Once again Iprovide you Yahtzee's review of Assassin's Creed before my own, cause he's a lot funnier.
Now for those of you that want my unintelligent qualifiers to this review I'll say Yahtzee's review, like all of his reviews, is pretty much right on the money except for a few things he's either missed or doesn't care about. The sword fighting is awesome, and if you're not a button mashing addict (as Yahtzee admits he is) you'll find that after you level up from your first assassination mission odds like 6 to 1 with make you laugh in a big manly way and your greatest concern with be hoping to see your favorite cinematically brillant combat maneuver where you eviscerate your enemy with all the style of Broadway and all the effort of a morning erection.
That's definitely a major selling point for the game, espically seeing how it's beautiful to start out the fact that sword play and free running aren't made needlessly complicated but instead needlessly stylish wins the game a big gold star from me. It's like Ubisoft said, "Look man, I know working for an hour getting the timing right for a perfect jump and then wishing your friends were there to see it is satisfyingly awesome result on the screen is... well no, it's really shit. How about you just tell us where you want to go with some simple controlls and we'll take care of making it look awesome."\
Thank you.
Yahtzee is right about not being able to run with your horse like a bullet across the land being annoying sometimes, but he's wrong about the beggar women and lepers because when they bother me I take out my little stealth kill knife and stab them in neck. Sure it drains your health to do so, but as long as you keep walking and don't get discovered that's back in ten second anyways. The game is severely unrealistic a lot of the time, but I see that as a plus, because it gives me and my roommates the oppurtunity to make some cruel jokes about the game while in reality no one who plays these games really cares about such things because all games are about getting -away- from reality.
The best way to sum up what I feel about this game is to ask someone if they liked Spiderman 2. Did you love web slinging? Did you enjoy the side quests? Great, buy a copy of Assassin's Creed now or I will (L1, Direction Button Up, Square) you.
Lemme tell you it was worth every penny. At this point we have Call of Duty 4, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (who didn't see that coming, she had it before I woke up the day after we got it), Viking, Genshi, and Assassin's Creed. While all the games have been fun I have just been stopping (sometimes to my detriment in combat) and gawking at the awesome graphics. It makes me sputter and nearly shit myself to think what the HD experience is like, and I haven't even bought the two titles I originally set my heart on the system for.
Definitly going to have to investigate that.
Once again Iprovide you Yahtzee's review of Assassin's Creed before my own, cause he's a lot funnier.
Now for those of you that want my unintelligent qualifiers to this review I'll say Yahtzee's review, like all of his reviews, is pretty much right on the money except for a few things he's either missed or doesn't care about. The sword fighting is awesome, and if you're not a button mashing addict (as Yahtzee admits he is) you'll find that after you level up from your first assassination mission odds like 6 to 1 with make you laugh in a big manly way and your greatest concern with be hoping to see your favorite cinematically brillant combat maneuver where you eviscerate your enemy with all the style of Broadway and all the effort of a morning erection.
That's definitely a major selling point for the game, espically seeing how it's beautiful to start out the fact that sword play and free running aren't made needlessly complicated but instead needlessly stylish wins the game a big gold star from me. It's like Ubisoft said, "Look man, I know working for an hour getting the timing right for a perfect jump and then wishing your friends were there to see it is satisfyingly awesome result on the screen is... well no, it's really shit. How about you just tell us where you want to go with some simple controlls and we'll take care of making it look awesome."\
Thank you.
Yahtzee is right about not being able to run with your horse like a bullet across the land being annoying sometimes, but he's wrong about the beggar women and lepers because when they bother me I take out my little stealth kill knife and stab them in neck. Sure it drains your health to do so, but as long as you keep walking and don't get discovered that's back in ten second anyways. The game is severely unrealistic a lot of the time, but I see that as a plus, because it gives me and my roommates the oppurtunity to make some cruel jokes about the game while in reality no one who plays these games really cares about such things because all games are about getting -away- from reality.
The best way to sum up what I feel about this game is to ask someone if they liked Spiderman 2. Did you love web slinging? Did you enjoy the side quests? Great, buy a copy of Assassin's Creed now or I will (L1, Direction Button Up, Square) you.