Ubisoft has released a limited 'Enzio's Trilogy' Steelbook Edition (PC only) for the German-language markets (Germany, Austria, Switzerland & such). Since I didn't enjoy AC1 too much, I did not pull the trigger on any of the 3 games in the compilation. Everybody says that the franchise made a huge leap forward with AC2, and that Brotherhood and Revelations are great too.

I still kinda need to be convinced that I need to play these games. Are these games really that much better than AC1? How's the PC port? Gamepad support? How's the Ubisoft-Always-Online thingy? Here's an unboxing video of the product...

Would you buy such a thing? Is that worth 60 bucks and that massive chunk of time it will take to play it all?

Who is Enzio?

Who is Enzio?

I just played through the entire Ezio trilogy on Steam over the past couple of weeks, and have nothing but positive things to say about the ports. I used an Xbox 360 controller and was many times stunned by the gorgeous cities I was navigating as Ezio. Brotherhood in particular with it's very well realized Rome was breathtakingly rendered. I can't really speak to any of the DRM stuff, although I did like that as I played and got "UPlay" achievement points it allowed me to unlock ingame costumes and perks.

Prior to this, I played about 3-4 hours of Assassin's Creed 1 (also on PC) before growing impatient with some of the traversal mechanics (mostly getting around the different cities) and moving on to Assassin's Creed 2. If I'd played it when it first came out I'm sure I'd have enjoyed it, but knowing what I did about the later games I was a bit anxious to move on to them. I felt like I got the gist of Part 1 and Wiki'd what I needed to.

PC Exclusive? Shit, I would fucking buy that for xbox.

It looks so beautiful.

@seanfoster:

Thx for the feedback. I think I'll pull the trigger.

Why would Ubisoft release anything PC exclusive especially a special high quality steelbook edition? 
Cannot compute.

Why would Ubisoft release anything PC exclusive especially a special high quality steelbook edition? 
Cannot compute.

@Seppli:  60 bucks? - yeah it's worth it. All that time? - nah not worth it. (at least not for all 3 games)  AC2 - makes a lot of improvements in gameplay and overall gameplay quality, altho i keep standing by the fact that altair has always been a much better character in AC1 then Ezio in AC2 AC2: Brotherhood - made me like Ezio way more and improves on the gameplay even more, it's considered the height if the series by many, also the MP was one of the most unique and fun MP games I played, sunk moer time into it then BF3 AC2: Revelations - the changes are kinda meh if not for the worst, MP was kinda broken, and there are no real revelations, if you are short on time skip.