Poll: Which is the best Assassin's Creed game?

[sheah1]

In comparison with II Brotherhood is an awful game, it takes all that sucked about the original and fuses it with the second. Hell, even it's new ideas are pretty much all marred or half-baked in some way. Two worst things? The linearity of missions (by which I mean you had to do it the way the game said you had to do it or you'd get a slap on the fingers, no matter how stupid the consequence) and TAIL MISSIONS EVERY FIVE FUCKING SECONDS.

 

[IamQ]

While altaïr is badass, I can't bare to play Assassins Creed again. Everytime I get a nostalgia kick out of the game, I remember that the game really insn't that fun. You can't run anywhere without an armed guard on your ass, and I love to run and jump in those games.

The second one improved alot on the gameplay front, and I haven't played Brotherhood, so I'll give my vote to the renaissance man.

 

[Tibs]

I like the 2nd one the best. It improved so much from the 1st and moved the series forward while AC:B did less of that.

 

[Spartan448]

I liked AC:B. Partially because it's the only one I've played, mostly because Ezio's a badass Italian, in very small part because of an easter egg in the Sanctuary (if you walk up to the Altiar statue and hit a button, Desmond says "Hey, wats-a-matter-you, Altiar?"), and all because of the AWESOME.

 

[DustyDrB]

I'd have to say II is my favorite for the development of Ezio and because it was such a drastic improvement over the first game. Brotherhood is better in the gameplay department (but not by much, really. They're almost identical), but I enjoyed seeing Ezio grow in II.

That said, I sort of view II and Brotherhood as inseparable. They sum is greater than the parts.

 

[Dunvi]

Having played through AC2 twice, I went back to AC and I actually love it even more. AC2 was insanely better in terms of gameplay and mechanics, and I love AC2, but the original was truly the best story and I'm a story-nerd. Furthermore, the skills I gained from all that practice in AC2 actually carried back and made the original much more fun.

Specifically, the Savonarola quests were where I was first forced to really master public stealth kills (walk up behind them without attracting attention and STAB). After that, during my second playthrough I practiced those skills and many other skills a lot, and when I went back to AC investigations I gave up on were plenty doable, and even were quite fun to use the skills without the extra ease AC2 added.

For example, Altair can do ledge kills (drop kills) if you set it up right, but it's not built into the engine yet so you have to cheat it by timing a jump and a kill perfectly. Similarly, he can fight with just his hidden blade, he just can't block - but I've gotten so good at the timing that once I get counters I barely use anything else. So much more efficient, and accurate as to what I think Altair would have done. It's not actually hard to travel the entire city without getting attacked once you get good at reading the guards, something I only got after AC2 was more obvious about the guards' stances.

I'll admit the game is very repetitive, but I'm a busy student so it works out fine without bothering me. I don't get long play times, so I never do the same quest on the same day.

Now to be quite truthful, what they really should do is port the story of AC into the engine of AC2. Altair with the smoother free running, accessible ledge and haystack kills, more-logical guard AI, and better support for hidden-blade fighting? Magic.

(I haven't played Brotherhood yet, but I suspect it'll disappoint me. I like the insane difficulty of AC1! My favorite quests in AC2 are entering the Vatican and the Savonarola ones, because they're so much harder than everything else. AC2 made the game so much easier, mostly in a good way, but Brotherhood just overdoes it, I think. Also, I wasn't fond of the monetary system in AC2 - it wasn't well balanced, and seemed like such a half-assed way to add complexity to the game. Overall, it sounds like ACB just continues the trend.)

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Assassins Creed II.

Assassins Creed 1 isn't that great. Way too repetive and just too many problems. Brotherhood I though was a fine game that wouldn't been great if it wasn't still in mother fucking Renaissance Italy.

I though AC2 was a really great game that put the previous one to shame and had a surprisingly interesting story. The sci-fi elements and so on weren't anything to get excited by but I though Ezio was a really great character. He was funny, charasmatic, a womanising scumbag. He was italian basically. And he just great character development over the coarse of the game. With Brotherhood...there was a sense to me that Ezio's real story was over and now he was just watching a less interesting 40 something Ezio who could still freerun somehow...

I just hope to god the next one is set in a different time period. Not modern day because A)Desmond is boring and B) If you set in modern day what mades AC interesting (it being a video game period piece) is gone.

 

[DonMartin]

I want to say Brotherhood, but then Im reminded that Leonardo Da Vinci was more prominent in the second one...

Nah, it'll have to be Brotherhood. Sorry, Leonardo.




i still love you

 

[Letitha]

AC in my opinion was the best in terms of story, but the mechanics were so much better in AC2 - no more dying as soon as you hit water - and the pointless and repetitive side quests were made non-compulsory, which was a big improvement. There was more choice in AC2 than AC and the story was still very good while remaining different to the first unlike a lot of sequels, which probably explains why I didn't like ACB.

ACB. Was horrible. There was hardly any storyline. It seemed like they wanted to make a quick bit of money out of AC2 while they planned the next actual AC game and the whole assassin management thing was ridiculous and annoying. The renovation I hated doing in AC2 was increased ten fold across an entire city - talk about pointless; if I wanted a city renovation game I'd find a copy of SimCity that might be lying around somewhere from 5-10 years ago. The Borgia Towers thing got horribly repetitive with the same graphic every. Single. Time.

So AC2 was definitely the best. Oh and Leonardo rocks