Dear Master of Assassins
Who is, of course, me, Ezio Auditore.
Today I'm writing from lovely Constantinople (not Istanbul). The Ottomans seem to be a pretty nice bunch of guys. I'm here because I wanted to find out some ancient Assassin secrets, but first I had to find a bunch of magical doo-hickeys that Marco Polo's dad hid around the city.
I'd say I'm getting too old for this shit, but frankly, I still really enjoy being a bad-ass. Constantinople is pretty much just like Rome. I've got to deal with various Templar plots. Run around and revive the local economy to get some money flowing my way. Recruit a bevy of beauties to act as my Assassin agents and send them all over Europe. It's pretty much everything I've been doing for years and years now, but, as I say, it's fun to be a bad-ass.
They do have two new things here in Constantinople. The first is that if I don't bribe the Heralds to shut up about what a menace I am, eventually the Templars will try and retake areas I've already cleared out. When that happens, the local custom is for me to stand on a rooftop and position minions to take out wave after wave of invaders until they either break through or break off. The locals call it a "Tower Defense Mini-Game" and I call it a huge waste of time and no fun at all. So I keep my heralds well and truly bribed.
The second new thing is that their Assassin blades have hooks on them which mean that the various ropes strung up around town can be used as zip-lines. Zip lines are *awesome*! I'm cruising all over town like some sort of giant man-bat. And dropping down on some fool from the line is fun too.
Oh, I guess the Assassins here are really big on various bombs. You get everything from fragmentation grenades, to bombs that splash everyone with blood to make them freak out. Honestly, I never used them all that much. It was always easier to just whistle up a horde of minions to take people out.
Anyway, I'm bouncing around town and just cleaning house. I pretty much outclass everyone I've come up against and there's only been a few times (like that Tower Defense thing) where it was really hard or frustrating. So I figure I'll get this all wrapped up real soon, open up Altair's tomb to find his secrets and enjoy a nice comfortable retirement. Oh, and I may have more chats with some genetic descendant of mine.
I am the greatest
Ezio
p.s. The game is definitely more of the same, but it's been fun and this really seems to be the end of the "past" and the next arc of games will be on Desmond and the "present".
Today I'm writing from lovely Constantinople (not Istanbul). The Ottomans seem to be a pretty nice bunch of guys. I'm here because I wanted to find out some ancient Assassin secrets, but first I had to find a bunch of magical doo-hickeys that Marco Polo's dad hid around the city.
I'd say I'm getting too old for this shit, but frankly, I still really enjoy being a bad-ass. Constantinople is pretty much just like Rome. I've got to deal with various Templar plots. Run around and revive the local economy to get some money flowing my way. Recruit a bevy of beauties to act as my Assassin agents and send them all over Europe. It's pretty much everything I've been doing for years and years now, but, as I say, it's fun to be a bad-ass.
They do have two new things here in Constantinople. The first is that if I don't bribe the Heralds to shut up about what a menace I am, eventually the Templars will try and retake areas I've already cleared out. When that happens, the local custom is for me to stand on a rooftop and position minions to take out wave after wave of invaders until they either break through or break off. The locals call it a "Tower Defense Mini-Game" and I call it a huge waste of time and no fun at all. So I keep my heralds well and truly bribed.
The second new thing is that their Assassin blades have hooks on them which mean that the various ropes strung up around town can be used as zip-lines. Zip lines are *awesome*! I'm cruising all over town like some sort of giant man-bat. And dropping down on some fool from the line is fun too.
Oh, I guess the Assassins here are really big on various bombs. You get everything from fragmentation grenades, to bombs that splash everyone with blood to make them freak out. Honestly, I never used them all that much. It was always easier to just whistle up a horde of minions to take people out.
Anyway, I'm bouncing around town and just cleaning house. I pretty much outclass everyone I've come up against and there's only been a few times (like that Tower Defense thing) where it was really hard or frustrating. So I figure I'll get this all wrapped up real soon, open up Altair's tomb to find his secrets and enjoy a nice comfortable retirement. Oh, and I may have more chats with some genetic descendant of mine.
I am the greatest
Ezio
p.s. The game is definitely more of the same, but it's been fun and this really seems to be the end of the "past" and the next arc of games will be on Desmond and the "present".