The J man got his hands on AC2 yesterday and feels that although he didnt beat it yet , he has played it enough to compare it to its predesesor AC1.

1) The game feels more story-driven.....

In AC1, the assasination targets(which were most of the main missions) felt as though they were just a "villian of the week" , in that they had very little to do with the story and that the story really started towards the end of the game.

In AC2, everything main mission you do feels intertwine with the story and has some meaning to it.....there is more story in AC2's first 2 hours than there is in the whole game of AC.

2) More choices....

AC1 main flaw was that it was redundant, you go in to the city, get information and then kill the target

AC2 feels more like a splinter cell game where that you could tackle any assasination anyway you wanted...in the first assasination I had the choice of either hiring girls to distract the guards guarding my target's party then procede to kill him , or kill an archer atop a roof and throw his body on the ground making guards check it out and then kill my unguarded target,or I could have just jump through the roof and kill him...far more fun than AC1's system.

 3)Characters...

 Ezio is a 10x better character comapred to Altair , in the fact that he has a personality....so he wins automatically...lol

 The only flaw with the game though would be the graphics though......they really havent improved at all but that shouldnt bother you because AC1 was definitely a top 10 in best graphics this gen.

 BTW... so far this is the J mans GOTY.

No one cares?

Happy, I think this game will have a 90+ score on metacritic.

Since you said GOTY, no-one does. You have insulted Uncharted 2, and for that you have been punished by being ignored. joke

I think more people will look at this when the game is out worldwide perhaps?

i was so disapointed in the first, dunno if il bother with the 2nd
thanks for posting this thread though mate!

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You and me both......AC1 was probably more disappointing for me than GTA 4.....such a good concept gone to waste.

But AC2 is definitely a big improvement over AC1.....rent it and see.

Sweet! Sadly my game is coming a week late since I had to get it offline and didn't feel like paying 12$ for shipping..

i guess im getting this game after all.
i hated the first so much. to the point where i called it the "ASS Game" or "Ass Creed"

I was thinking about this one, bought the first one on hype - didn't like it. The graphics thing really bugs me, The first one is no where near the top 10 graphics, so I'm assuming they're average graphics, hopefully no frame rate problems. Was going to take some convincing to get me to buy this one, and now it looks like no chance, maybe when it's cheap.

It seems they've worked out most of the quirks that bothered me in the first one! Great! I did like the first one as well but this will be awesome!