assassin's creed versus assassin's creed two

[Kantor]

I've never seen so large a concentration of AC1 lovers.

Anyway:

 

• Altair's horrible accent made me want to punch a brick wall
• The menial tasks that you had to perform before each assassination were excruciating
• Your targets engaged you in unskippable half-hour monologues about nothing when you killed them, and Altair just listens and listens.
• There was a much larger variety of weapons in Assassin's Creed II. Enemies as well.
• This is personal opinion, but I think that Italy during the Renaissance is far more interesting than the Middle East during the Crusades, which was just people battering each other senseless for several centuries.
• Da Vinci! Come on!
• There was some actual character development in ACII. Altair had no personality at all.
• The story was genuinely interesting in ACII. Again, things happened other than random people being murdered.
• The music was definitely better in ACII. So was the voice acting. Ezio sounds Italian! They even speak Italian at points! Continuity, people. There were no Americans in the 12th Century, and certainly not in the Middle East.
• Desmond did something other than stalking Lucy and Vidic by reading their emails and walking up and down three rooms.
• You got a sense that the game was actually going somewhere (which, admittedly, you don't get in Brotherhood until the final hour or so).
• Even the platforming was better, with the ledge grab. But then, platforming was one of the high points of AC1. One of the very, very few high points.

I don't see how anyone can prefer that absolute catastrophe known as Assassin's Creed to its infinitely superior sequel. Seriously.