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Slimebeast on 17 January 2010
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Miguel_Zorro said:
Slimebeast said:

Thanks for your reply.

Mind explaining why think Assassin's Creed II is so inferior to Uncharted 2?

In my opinion Assassin's Creed II is clearly better than Uncharted 2, but not so much that it would make Uncharted 2 "look like a joke".


Don't get me wrong, they're both solid games.  Assassin's Creed has great scenery, colour and a good story.  In those areas, it matches Uncharted 2.

In my opinion, Uncharted 2 wins over Assassin's Creed 2 for the following reasons:

- The character models themselves.  The people and faces in Uncharted 2 look significantly more real and natural to me than those in Assassin's Creed 2.  A lot of the people in AC2 just looked a bit weird to me, whereas the characters in Uncharted 2 looked great.

- Controls: the controls in Uncharted 2 feel better to me.  The controls in AC2 were ok, but I had a lot of problems with them that I didn't have in U2.  Given the similarility between the actions, I think it's a fair comparison.  A lot of people had similar problems with AC2 controls.

- Bugs: AC2 froze on me a few times, and I know I'm not the only one.  In one of the assassination missions, I killed the target, and the game wouldn't recognize that he was dead.  I stood there, staring at a dead body with a blue arrow over it.  In one sequence (the Altair dream), my character was kissing another character that wasn't even there. Then he went to sleep in a pile of hay alone, and then nothing happened. The game wouldn't progress.  I aborted the memory and played it over again, and this time there was a girl where there was once empty space.

- Challenge:  Assassin's Creed 2 is far too easy.  I can't think of a single time that I actually died in combat.  In fact, the only times I died was when I was trying to climb a building and instead - due to the clunky controls, again - I did a 180 degree turn/leap away from a building.  Other than that, I moved through the game virtually untouched.  I prefer more of a challenge.

- Uncharted 2 was, for me, simply more fun to play.  From the stealth mechanics to the cover system, it just had gameplay elements that I really enjoyed.

- I got the impression that Ubisoft rushed the game out.  This is reinforced by the fact that they had to cut 2 sequences out (12&13) just to finish the game on time.  Uncharted 2, on the other hand, felt impreccably polished in every way.

Personally, I don't think either game makes the other look like a joke, I was simply quoting your post.  I'm not a PS3 fanboy by any means, but I really appreciate the technical merits behind Uncharted 2.  Assasin's Creed 2 is good, but not in the same league.

Well, that was my point all along.

And your reasons for why Uncharted 2 beats Assassin's Creed II are very reasonable.