Assassin's Creed Revelations

[ReservoirAngel]

Also, yeah what's up with that? Also, do you guys think that that's Masyaf?

That is Masyaf. If I remember correctly, the story is Ezio travelling to what used to be the Masyaf/Jerusalem/Acre/Damascus area from the first game for some reason.

Plus you'll get to play as Altair again! So I'm happy already, I always did prefer Altair to Ezio.

 

[geezah91]

It's highly unrealistic that a 53 year old man could be this agile and the fact that he actually managed to employ feats of agility like the ones in the trailer after sustaining an arrow wound to the shoulder proves how little faith Ubisoft had in the character to begin with. They obviously want to milk him for what its worth, extending his story as much as possible. Look, I enjoyed what you did with the first game. Visiting locations most games never even give a chance was a welcomed change. However, you're no longer even trying to make the world unique. AC2 addressed a lot of the problems AC1 had but as it stands, you're no longer attempting to refine the formula. You're milking it.

I understand Ezio is a popular character and I understand Ubisoft never expected him to become the icon that he is today but by this point they're giving us to much time with him. They're not innovating at all and they're reusing the same mechanics they used in AC2 with very minimal changes. The Assassins Creed series, at least to me, was about innovation. As it stands, Ubisoft is not innovating, it's rehashing the same tired old shit.

I'm not saying this game will be bad but once you look at it from a different perspective you're just playing Assassins Creed 2 except now you get to visit a reskinned version of Rome. You also have to pay 60 dollars to do so.

It seems Ubisoft has run out of ideas on how to innovate with the series so they're just stalling now.

I completely agree. The new bomb making mechanic was featured in AC2 and the zipline ability was extremely prevalent in Brotherhood. Not to mention the entirely new gameplay mechanic with Desmond that was barely established at the end of Brotherhood is completely non innovative. Oh and of course the Assassin Den that was featured in Brotherhood that you have to repeatedly defend and/or take from Templars is such obvious milking of a franchise it's disgusting. That and all the plot holes that were filled in by Brotherhood such as who Subject 16 is, what happened to Sean and Rebecca, or what happened to Altair after he killed his original mentor. That and how Constantinople is such an obvious reskinning of Rome since it has Jewish, Gypsy, Ottoman, and Byzantine influence is just lazy on the part of Ubisoft.

Dust off your hands, take off your jacket, sit down and have a pint on me sir. Well played

 

[Calvar Draveir]

i've historically been a massive throbbing assassin's creed fan. and i won't lie, i do want this game. but i can feel my entheusiasm slowly draining.

Because it's adding more features than Brotherhood, a greater shift in location, more interesting story, more polish, and answering some of the most important questions about the mysteries of the series?

Wow, that takes SKILL to be less excited.

Looking over all the AC: Revelations posts, I feel like people on The Escapist just listen to Yahtzee and don't actually research games.

The information about all the improvements Revelations is bringing has been on the internet for 2 months.

And sure, you can say that stuff sounds better on paper, but Revelations sounds more improved on paper than Brotherhood did. Meaning that it will at least be better than brotherhood was coming from AC2.

...why'd you quote me on that?

I talked about all the amazing things that they announced that are legitemate steps forward and awesome, and sarcastically wondered how hearing all of that could make you less excited. That's why.

 

[baddude1337]

It looks great, but I am personally a bit irked that they said Brotherhood was Ezios' last game, and it didn't really add anything to the story, and rather than innovate and change the series to a different time period were getting two of the same characters...

Nevertheless, I am stoked for it, I love the AC games and can't wait to play it.

 

[Kopikatsu]

i thought that we would surely get desmond by now!
btw, the situation in the trailer would never actually happen, seriously counter attacking owns everyone. also do you think that you'll be able to call assasin's to your side again?
the thing that buged me in brotherhood was that there wasnt enough enemies to have an all out epic battle -_-
CANT W8. THIS AND HALO 4
EDIT: oh wait in the gameplay demo there was an assasin helping you so yeah

Speak for yourself. I ran around town for like twenty minutes, gathering guards, then I called my Assassins. Five Assassins (Myself included) verses about thirty guards. It was epic. Some of my Assassins almost died, and they were maxed out...

OT: Well, he's much older now. Ezio the ooooooold man.

 

[ACLoyalFanatic]

Cinematic trailers aside, I have spent the last hour watching new Revelations cutscenes, and comparing them with Brotherhood cutscenes (as well as moving the camera to check out Altair in the first AC), and I definitely agree--our boys have changed. It's not age, by the way. I might be able to accept Ezio's changes if they didn't also change Altair and Desmond. Just watch all the videos. The nose is more flat, the lips are bigger, eyes are smaller and closer together, and the jaw is less sharp. Let's face it, they aren't using the same base for our boys anymore. I'm not sure what happened, but honestly, I'm incredibly angry about it. I'm having a hard time even watching clips because he looks NOTHING like he did before. If I could get my hands on any other character clips, I bet you the rest don't look the same. Al Mualim I can't really tell because I never paid too much attention to his appearance in AC1.

The cinematic trailers did all right, actually. I sat back and compared those as well, and from what you can see of his face in the previous games, it's still pretty consistent. He looks about right, just aged.

Actual gameplay however.... pissing me off.

 

[ACLoyalFanatic]

Just in case you haven't seen it yet:


OT: It's NOT just me who thought he looked NOTHING like Ezio Auditore? Thank god. Also, yeah what's up with that? Also, do you guys think that that's Masyaf?

No, definitely not Masyaf. Masyaf is in the mountains of Syria (or at least this fictional version, in real life Masyaf is nothing like what it is in the game although it is still in Syria. The real assassin fortress was actually in Alamut which is in Iran), this is likely somewhere in Jordan.

OT: Very excited for this game, as usual it looks great. This series has yet to disappoint me so it's at the top of my list.

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The attacks look recycled... again. The story just seemed really dumb to me after the angels or super-race people showed. However, since brotherhood had such a good multiplayer then I will buy this game if it has good multiplayer.

I completely agree. That whole ending in AC2 pissed me off. I was looking forward to this whole government world-wide takeover, not some stupid alien/god/fate looming doomsday.