The best game I've played in a while!
User Rating: 10 | Assassin's Creed II PS3
Okay, I'll be honest. Assassin's Creed was not my favorite game. In fact, once I finished it, I vowed to never play it again. So it made sense that I would have no interest in the sequel. However, as I saw more videos of the game and read more reviews, my interest gradually began to grow until I decided to pick it up from a local store. That was honestly one of the best video game related decisions I have made. The game is significantly more fun than the original, mostly due to the deeper story and the fixes to combat, platforming, and variety. Truthfully, the game can get a little repetitive but getting more and more unique kills never got old. Even as I approached the end of the game, I was still pulling off unique and stylish assassinations such as throwing people off of roofs, shooting them off of a horse with a wrist-mounted pistol, and pulling them off of a boat and into the water where they drown. The story is a little confusing but is never too hard to follow. The characters are also pretty good, although the secondary characters are a bit stereotypical and some don't add anything to the game. One word of warning: do not buy the downloaded content for this game. It is cheesy, short, incredibly difficult, and adds very little enjoyment to the game. Overall, this is one of the best games I have ever played and will be one that I return to many times over the upcoming years.
