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Reviews: Assassin's Creed II Video Review

It's got two times the blades, but is it two times the good?

Giant Bomb delivers the final word on video games in podcast form.

Nov. 19 2009

Cast: Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Assassin's Creed II

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Ryan. You sound a little bit stiff. You pretty much just read the written review out loud.  
I think this smells of advertising.

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Edited By Oziriz

Awesome review man, the game looks great. Gonna try it out.

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@robotRhino said:
" Ryan. You sound a little bit stiff. You pretty much just read the written review out loud.  I think this smells of advertising. "
You smell of fucking stupidity.
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@robotRhino said:
" Ryan. You sound a little bit stiff. You pretty much just read the written review out loud.  I think this smells of advertising. "
You're daft.
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Edited By MeatSim

I am gonna play this game in a month or 2 once I find time.

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Edited By j_meyer_13

Anybody else notice Ryan's sweater keying out when he's on-screen? xD
 
Amazing game, I've had a blast with it so far... just got to the economic stuff, which seems cool as hell.

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Edited By RoyaleWithCheese

It has to be said: Davis' command of English really makes his reviews (including TANG) all the more informative and useful.  I hate listening to reviewers speak in disjointed and distracting sentences.  You can tell Davis has AT LEAST written for a school newspaper or something.

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Edited By hatking

I have said this before, but I just did not care for the first one, which is a shame because some of the ideas there I really liked.  This one however looks like they read my mind found out exactly what I didn't like about the first one, found out what would make this one better and then made the game.  Seriously, this game looks fucking amazing.  I can't tell you how bummed I am I didn't realize this sooner, now I've spent my very small gaming budget on another game, Borderlands.... which I also enjoy.  I think the problem here is my lack of funds.
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Edited By ioannisdenton

nice in depth review there!  
"money money money" god! this sounds So annoying!

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Edited By crusader8463
@fwylo said:

" @Adziboy said:

" @crusader8463 said:
"I wanted to be playing this game right now it looks like they fixed all the bad things of the first, it's just a shame it got delayed until early 2010. "
What? It's out now. "
Hahaha agreed whhhatt? "
Just found out a few weeks ago they delayed the PC version until "early 2010", for the usual bull shit corporate canned response.
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Edited By EpicReflex

Great review, a game i was going to skip this year but may just pick up after seeing this.

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Edited By RHCPfan24

Great review! I can't wait to play it.

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@jrodrz said:
" At last, the video review for the game I've been expecting all year! thnx! "
:D
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@crusader8463 said:
" @fwylo said:

" @Adziboy said:

" @crusader8463 said:
"I wanted to be playing this game right now it looks like they fixed all the bad things of the first, it's just a shame it got delayed until early 2010. "
What? It's out now. "
Hahaha agreed whhhatt? "
Just found out a few weeks ago they delayed the PC version until "early 2010", for the usual bull shit corporate canned response. "

I see. Complain all you want :D
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Edited By giyanks22

Nice review looks awesome.

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Edited By realkilla789

i felt so spoiled in the this review

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Edited By TheHT

lol desmond looked like vinny at 5:12. game looks better than ac1 so good job ubisoft!

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Edited By queenulhu

nice hair ryan!! haha   ♥

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Edited By chewii101

Money money money! 

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I want this game very badly. But Left 4 Dead 2 is on sale next week for 35$, and I cant skip out on a great deal like that.
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Edited By ecofriend

Nice review. Well done!
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Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

This looks like exactly what I was expecting from the game if not something better. It seems well worth buying.

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i didn't like the first game...but i really want this

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Edited By Media_Master

This is the third video review I've seen liking the sequel and 'improves upon the original'. 
Which is great news to hear!

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Hmmm this game looks great. I loved Assassin's Creed despite how repetitive that game was.

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money money!!!!!!

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"It's a me, Mario!" 
 
Great, so glad I pre-ordered this game now lol.
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@girdz said:
"Eww.. How did they manage do make Kristen Bell look ugly "
Agreed. Given how decent the rest of the game looks, this is pretty surprising!
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Edited By bluemantra

I didn't like the first one at all. I decided to pre-order this because of the changes I heard that were made to it. I gambled on it, because I so much wanted to like the first one. I'm about 3 hours in and that's a lot longer than I was able to make it in the first one. I am enjoying this game and it keeps me wanting to come back and has actually made me eject MW2 more often than not.....I say give it a shot from someone who hated the first...

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i was planning on skipping this game, but gamestop had a deal so i figured why not? i'm glad i did buy it, because other than the strangely bad facial animations that ryan mentioned, the game is excellent. so in my experience, this review was spot on.

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Itsa me! Mario!

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@Sniipe said:
" "If I never again hear the Italian-tinged voice that cries out 'money mone money'... It'll be too soon."  Huh? "
agreed. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that that sentence doesn't make grammatical sense.
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@Wilkins_III:@Wilkins_III said:
" @girdz said:
"Eww.. How did they manage do make Kristen Bell look ugly "
Agreed. Given how decent the rest of the game looks, this is pretty surprising! "
When I first saw here I did a spit take. It seems like in the animus face a little better but for some reason Veronica Mars looks all reptile fugly.
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And this game marks yet another credit for everybodies favorate voice actor Nolan Notrh.
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@simian said:
" @Wilkins_III:@Wilkins_III said:
" @girdz said:
"Eww.. How did they manage do make Kristen Bell look ugly "
Agreed. Given how decent the rest of the game looks, this is pretty surprising! "
When I first saw here I did a spit take. It seems like in the animus face a little better but for some reason Veronica Mars looks all reptile fugly. "
So far, this is honestly the biggest disappointment I have with the title. I find it jarring, and hard to take the dialogue seriously when a poorly animated character speaks. 
 
But overall, it's awesome so far!
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Man, do those buildings look pretty.

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Edited By benjamimmy

Ryan is a ghost! :O

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I'll be playing this all over thanks giving vacation...

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Edited By MadeinFinland

Definitely an awesome game. I bought it on release date and just finished it.
 
Well worth the money, loved the ending ... even though it was really weird.
 
And the 'Itsa me, Mario!' was awkward as well... along with the birth of Etsio.

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Great game! I bought it and I am addicted to it.
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I wasn't following this at all, but my interest has definitley been peaked
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Too many big words; what kind of audience do you think you have here :)

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Edited By Jedted

Great review Ryan!  I woulda given it 5 stars myself but i'm nice and i love story of AC2 aswell as AC1. 
 
Only thing that woulda made the video review better was if somebody sang "row row your boat" during the last clip. :-) 
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great review/.. 

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Edited By mrcraggle

Having only rented the game and only played a few hours of it (my flu got the better of me), I can say what I did get to play was absolutely great. Everything just feels like an improvement over the first. I would have given it a 5/5 as the minor flaws are easily outweighed by how much Ubisoft seemed to have listened to what was wrong with the first game and fixed every single one of them. Granted the controls can seem a little sensitive at times at Ezio will hop and jump in directions you didn't intend for it to go but it's only something that happen to you rarely. The biggest fault with the game for me isn't so much the facial expressions, it's the faces themselves. While Ezio and a whole host of other main characters within the Animus look fine, people in the real world look like absolute shit. When I first saw Danny Wallace I was surprised he was in the game then I was like, er, he looks like crap.

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Nice. I gotta finish the first one. I wish it was out for PC so I could possibly get some great Steam price.

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Edited By Terminus

It's not "da Firenze", it's da Florencia. As in, from the city of Florencia. You know, like Leonardo was just some dude from Vinci, hence, da Vinci? 

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Edited By Canadian_Snake

I had bought this game online, I got at the mountains right after the carriage with Da Vinci, game stops says unable to read disk clean it all that shit.  I did still won't work now I have to wait 2 weeks to get a replacement copy, otherwise awesome game.

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@Terminus said:
" It's not "da Firenze", it's da Florencia. As in, from the city of Florencia. You know, like Leonardo was just some dude from Vinci, hence, da Vinci?  "
In Italian, Florence is known as Firenze.  So yes, he is da Firenze and from Florence all at the same time.