Fantastic.

"Linkyshinks said:

"Just a logical observation here. Those guards in Armour, if they are wearing heavy Armour, they wont be able to swim and give chase.

Perhaps, the real Armour that city guards wore at the time had something akin to a quick release mechanism, where they could drop Armour plates with a sufficient degree of ease and give chase if need be. My thinking is that some guards, had to have Armour that allowed them to do that. while others had specialized Armour, made of bound leather that was flexible and light enough to allow for swimming at an instant.  "

I do remember reading somewhere they have plans for making the combat system far less repetitive and providing more options for players. So perhaps you're right, you fight the heavy armoured guys, find you are going to lose if you continue and decide to make a run for it. Being heavily armoured they can't keep up, so you get to safety, but perhaps those guards will remember you and recognise you if they see you in the area again?"

Halberd ftw, I'm interested to see how an assassin will use that particular weapon. Looks they are fixing my biggest issue with the game, the repetitiveness.

I, for one, cannot fucking wait for this game.

The Altair/Desmond/Assassin model, the whole art direction they took as regards his costume--brilliant.  I think it looks badass. But then again, it wouldn't take much for me to say that, considering how much I enjoyed the first Assassin's Creed.

Looking good. But what's with the black rectangles? Were you covering up a watermark?

You can swim! awesome!

Oh, by the way I just wanted to point out that these screens show that there will be a Day and Night cycle in the sequal, which was absent in the original.

"Oh, by the way I just wanted to point out that these screens show that there will be a Day and Night cycle in the sequal, which was absent in the original."

too many filters.

looks ok though.

"too many filters. looks ok though."

I can swim, right?

The first one was amazing, but it suffered from concept without gameplay.
They made an amazing system and it worked, but there was not thought put the the gameplay and the stealth wasn't really there

"The first one was amazing, but it suffered from concept without gameplay.They made an amazing system and it worked, but there was not thought put the the gameplay and the stealth wasn't really there"

"The first one was amazing, but it suffered from concept without gameplay.They made an amazing system and it worked, but there was not thought put the the gameplay and the stealth wasn't really there"

It looks like the guy has a popped collar....

Iv already saw these pictures on my game informer mag and it looks great, but i would want to see a little bit of gameplay or something maybe a demo on the xbox market would be great.

I just rented the first one and the fact that touching water does not equal instant death is a major improvement by itself.  The repetitive nature of the missions was so uniformly criticized I have to hope that was one of the first things they tackled in the sequel.  The cities are created so lifelike that although this is an action/adventure game, it really calls for sidequests fleshed out at an RPG level.