The Assassin's Creed series continues to unimpress me.

User Rating: 6.5 | Assassin's Creed II PC
Ubisoft Montreal continues to disappoint me with boring assassin games. While the original was repetitive, this sequel tries to overcomplicate itself creating a control scheme that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

Gameplay:
6/10

Gameplay can be great but then it can be awful. Sometimes game mechanics work and sometimes they just break and don't do what they're supposed to do. This breaks the game. It's sad too, Assassin's Creed 2 takes away the repetitiveness that was in the original and creates a beautiful recreation of Renaissance Italy but is then stabbed in the gut with bad controls. That can be truly game breaking.

Graphics:
7.5/10

Beautiful backgrounds with lack luster looking character models. Faces are a smush of ugly textures that looks weird. The recreation of Italy looks quite stun with beautiful architecture and nice view distance.


Pros:
---Graphics and story

Cons:
---Gameplay and controls are sketchy, combat is slow, and combat mechanics sometimes don't work as they're supposed to.


Overall:
6.75/10

A game with great story, interesting characters and beautiful scenery hacked apart by shite controls.