Not really. IIRC the pc controls for the first were a bit funky but that's about it.

decided to try to find all the feathers.Also I still need all of subject 16 memory.

Hey I just found out something pretty interesting, Nolan North does the voice of Desmond Miles in 1 & 2, and he also does the voice of Elliot Salem in Army of Two: The 40th Day

Doesn't he also do the voice for that guy in drake's fortune?

Yep, just checked and he does.

Anybody have tips on getting the Sweeper and No Hitter trophies?

I got no hitter on 360 with no problem.In the begging of the game.Just use counters when surrounded by weak enemies.

I just beat this game last night. I like it a lot more than the first one, the combat has definitely been improved by a lot.

Also, looking at my stats, I killed 909 people, and 468 of them were from my hidden blades. Did anyone else use their hidden blades this much?




For multiple brutes, I just disarm one of them, then use their weapon to kill the others. I usually try to assassinate them with my hidden blades before engaging them if I can, though.

is there any good misions to do after you complete the game?

oh and for the brutes you can always wait for them to attack you then counter the attack with your hidden blades if you time it just right you should easilly kill them

you have to find all the pics with apples in them

If you get all the feathers I think there is and there is always the side quest.

Thanks

Also Ezio is way better because of 2 reasons

1: I mean cmon hes french!!(i think)

2: And I thought Altiar looked a little fat.

Your welcome, :facepalm: he is Italian.

:rofl:


Ezio felt bulky because of all the extra crap on his armor

When

Did anyone notice how long Desmond's neck is? It doesn't even look natural!

:lol: Yeah when I'm playing as him, I sprint and hold "A" so he gets ready to tackle someone. It looks so weird.

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/desmond-miles-assassins-creed-2-artwork.jpg
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/desmond-miles-assassins-creed-2-new-character-model.jpg

This has to be some joke. Usually things improve with time.

Maybe your neck grows longer as you become a better assassin.
But seriously that is not natural.

He looks like a damn turtle.

Well Lucy improved

Desmond should totally hit that

Just beat this last night. I was pleasantly suprised, actually - it was quite addictive. There's a real elegance in the game design, this time around. Literally everything in the game serves a gameplay function - from the crowds on the street, down to Ezio's costume. I also liked the slightly more open experience, this time around - it didn't come off feeling as repetitive as AC1.

That said, I did kind of miss the preparation missions from the first game. I think it might have been nice to have some optional side missions for the big assassinations to help you prepare and plan for them (like they had in the first game.) Also, being able to improve your Villa was a nice touch - but it didn't really take me very long at all to get everything there maxed out. For most of the game I felt a bit guilty going back to the Villa and passing by my architect, who no longer had anything to do. It was a nice feature, but I just wish it could have been fleshed out a little bit more.

I've also decided not to bother with trying to find all 100 feathers. I just looked online to see if it was worth the time, and the reward for all that work isn't something I'm interesting in enough to go through all of that bother. There's already a whole ton of collecting and finding things in the game - I think I'd rather have seen you get some more partial rewards for making progress towards that 100 feathers, rather than only giving you something at 50 and 100.

And I'm still not a big fan of Desmond. That's kind of a hard thing they're trying to do - it's really hard to care very much about a character that you almost never have anything to do with. At least in the first one, they'd pop you out of the Animus on occasion, to remind you that it's really Desmond's story, after all. This time around, there's only like a small handful of scenes that deal with him, at all. Kind of led to a slightly dissapointing ending - by then, I was really attached to Ezio and his story - it would have been nice to see what happened to him after all of that - instead he's just kind of left in the dust.

Overall, though, I was really impressed. I was totally hooked on the game, and I'll probably do another runthrough fairly soon - the plot is rather twisty and complex, and a second run ought to help me clear up just what was going on at times.

I can't agree. http://www.the10k.com/gallery/albums/userpics/AC2_S_058_Present_Lucy_Operating_Animus.jpg

Look at how much more natural her body http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/12499/243089-lucy1_large.jpg
It appears that their character artists need to learn a thing or two about the anatomy of the human body, and just how exactly clothes fit onto someone.

Yeah, I almost exclusively use my hidden blade. I think those numbers don't include the counter kills though cause it says "assassinated". I have 1382 kills and 810 'assassinated', I almost never use my other blades so it should be alot more.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85n73pYpNQ8
Check that out for anyone having trouble doing the sweeper achievement.

The linearity is covered up with a bunch of optional stuff that really is not all that entertaining, but at least its not as repetetive as the first. If I was a game designer, this is not the sort of game I would make.

The plot of Assassin's Creed 2 is amazing, and the gameplay is much better than the annoying as hell repetitiveness of the first game. However, I still am disliking the controls. I like that it is possible to be stealthy. I still think the 'Animus' is just a horrible plot idea, I would've perferred if in both games I could just play as the character. The combat makes use of a few more buttons, but I think Free-running is annoying, it's hard to win a race in 30 seconds if Ezio decides that rather than jumping up a wall he'd rather lunge off it to his death, and I don't know what I'm pressing wrong that does this.