Assassins Creed II; first outlook

I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Now this game is iconic & needs no intro. Some would say it even replaces one of Ubisoft’s other iconic game that has fallen in to some what decline; am referring to of course the Prince of Persia games.

For me assassins creed II was a headache to do. I’ve had this game for two years and it took me over a YEAR & a HALF to finish it. Yes I am that bad at it. But then again I never really play action, adventure games that much. But this was an exception. The story blew me away.  And the character Ezio has depth. And not just him but the side characters too. The game has the player so immersed that you forget that you are actually playing a game.

Anyway, there was a funky moment in the game; I was climbing up a house when I got fired at by one of the guards and what ended up happening was I actually fell in to the building. And I couldn’t get out, so I had to exit the game and then go back & start again, obviously it was a glitch. But it was funny though.

I won’t lie, there where the plenty of times where I did get frustrated with the character, I press the jump button and he will either jump a bit late or jump too early, missing my intended area of platform.

I did find some of the missions quite hard to do, mainly because I lack “subtle” or tactic when approaching these type of missions. Maybe because I never really used the surroundings or the “dancing women” to great effect. I tend to either use the mercenaries or thieves. But over time, I got use to using all of them depending the situation [or mission] required.

Towards the end of the game there were some compulsory missions you had to do, I kept on dying on the farmer one. That mission was the main reason I took a long absence from the game. And it wasn’t even that long to do, all of them that is.

But anyway since I finished the game there are some things that I want to do to get a full completion. I’ve some what restarted it, but this time like Ezio with wisdom and greater understanding of how to become a better assassin.

4/5

An "air assassination" by Ezio

 

Streets of rage 1; retroview

The original game was on the Sega mega drive or the genesis if you lived in the America, it is known as bare knuckles in Japan only.

When this game was first played on the mega drive, it was truly astounding. The colours, sprites & music used were amazing. But I will say that, even though it used colourful sprites, I always got the impression of it being a bit “dark”. But that’s just me.  The mega drive controls were responsive, unless you had a stiff controller. Which I had like several of them.  Certainly gave your thumbs a raw deal.

I always struggled against the second stage boss, I always died there. Well to be honest there were some “funky” moments with the bosses on the game.

The "claw men" of the second stage.

Anyway moving right along with the current generation. You can buy the entire streets of rage series on the Sega Mega drive collection [along with other mega drive games]. It is available on the 360 and PS3.

Now I’ve got the 360 version and to be honest all it is a ROM and the console is used as an emulator to play the game. The controls are pretty much the same, only you use the X or A button to punch and the Y button to call for help and B button to jump.

However it doesn’t “feel” the same. It doesn’t bring back that nostalgia feelings of playing the game.  Sure you have access to playing one of the most iconic games on the mega drive.

Now am going to give the score based on the original system played and NOT on the 360.

4/5.

A fresh new start

Well after countless deliberation, I finally settled on how to approach my blog. And I settled on making a video game blog. I know this will be a short post but, I felt I needed to start again from scratch and make the blog more “steam lined” in keeping with the idea and theme of my blog. There might be a few more changes, but this time I am more than happy to make this blog my video game journal.