Assassins Creed 1 + 2 on PC, Steam sale

[the_tramp]

Hi,
As you lot will probably be aware, Steam is having their Summer sales at the moment and today's includes the Assassin's Creed games for:
1 = £3.39
2 = £5.09
Brotherhood = £14.99
All 3 = £16.99

Whilst at Uni I played a small amount of AC1 on my housemate's xbox 360 and found that the controls worked quite well and have been looking to get them since buying an xbox. Despite this, this offer's tempted me.

However, playing it with a controller felt right and it didn't really feel as though it would translate to the pc that well so I was wondering whether, in your opinion, the controls have translated well and it plays adequately on a pc? I do not have a controller and feel that going out and buying a wired xbox controller for £30 will negate the point in taking advantage of this deal.

Furthermore, I read with mild interest but not in depth the "issues" surrounding the 'always connected to the internet' aspect of AC2 (and I presume this has carried over to ACB). As with any new idea there were inevitable bugs that needed to be ironed out but how does this function today? My desktop has built in wireless and, barring extreme circumstances, is never not connected to the internet so there's no issue on my end.

Thanks in advance for the replies.

 

[Comando96]

Firstly, the controls are fine, given you are a PC literate player. If you are used to using WASD, then you'll do fine, otherwise... the controller may be necessary though I dunno where you got that price from [http://www.google.co.uk/#q=PC+controller&hl=en&sa=X&prmd=ivns&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&ei=aqsQTsStF9CChQfA-u3KDQ&ved=0CIIBEK0E&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=df8fa70f71a7cfbc&biw=1680&bih=870], you can get them cheaper than $30.

As far as the constant internet connection goes, they scrapped that as it clearly was a mistake that didn't prevent piracy, after a year they changed it to a single check on start-up, same for brotherhood.
There were few bugs in the games(on their end, PCs tend to induce the bugs)... and given this amount of time, they are gone.

Final thing... please C+P you PC's specs.
If you don't know what the word specs means, then thats a bad sign

No offence of course, I have no idea what your computer is like. It could be brilliant... it may not be... and therefore these games may not be worth the lag as in my experience they are some of the more beautiful and therefore demanding games.

I own Both AC2 and AC:B on Steam so I can vouch for them personally

 

[the_tramp]

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't aware that they'd gotten rid of the always online thing. That's good to hear as, despite my original statement of myself always being online, a random spike could throw me off. My specs are as follows and I don't foresee an issue running the games:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 7/3/2011, 19:00:59
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Packard Bell
System Model: ixtreme M5801
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 550 @ 3.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 6144MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 6136MB RAM
Page File: 2342MB used, 9926MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GT 420
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 3804 MB
Dedicated Memory: 993 MB
Shared Memory: 2811 MB
Current Mode: 1600 x 900 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Monitor Name: Packard Bell Viseo 200Ws
Monitor Model: Viseo 200Ws
Monitor Id: PKB00C2
Native Mode: 1600 x 900(p) (59.946Hz)
Output Type: HD15