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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Inlander:
This isn't a post about this "Brotherhood" game, but I thought you all might like to know that I just downloaded Assassin's Creed II - for my mobile phone. Curious to see how a current-generation console game would translate to a free downloadable smartphone "app" I opened it up to discover . . . a 2-D scrolling platform game. Now, I've never played an Assassin's Creed game before but I imagine the general tone isn't "third Mario brother goes rogue".
Intriguing.
Tom:
The only reason they didn't call it AssCreed III is because you're still running around as Ezio. The next one is AssCreed III and it will have a new ancestor/pretagonist(?).
But seriously, I hope it gets pushed back a year for all the right reasons.
Blue Kitty:
Like Tommy I really liked the music, but at times it seemed a bit off, like when I am just walking around and all of a sudden it goes into creepy, climactic music. I'm sitting there wondering what it is I'm not seeing, but people are walking around doing what the do.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 27 Mar 2011, 23:11 ---Incidentally, you can read about the reasonably fascinating lives of many of the characters featured in the Italian leg of the series on the Wikipedia. For example, Rodrigo Borgia, aka The Spaniard aka Pope Alexander VI genuinely was as horrible as he appears to be in the game and is still considered to be one of the most fundamentally terrible Popes. His younger relative Cesare Borgia was also a bit of a miscreant, as portrayed in AssBro. It's interesting to see how close they kept aspects of these historical figures lives, which I largely assumed they had simply made up entirely. For example, Cesare really did employ Leonardo Da Vinci to build war machines among other things and he was also publicly hated by Niccolò Machiavelli, just as in the game. He really did die by falling from the battlements of a Spanish castle some time after being exiled. In fact, aside from the assassins, basically everybody mentioned in both games has a historical basis of sorts. I actually like that they bothered to put in this much research, it's the sign of a well made game.
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I had this problem with both AC2 and Assbro. In AC2, during the Pazzi Conspriacy, La Volpe mentioned that they had the consent of the pope and, since one of the popes around that time was my ancestor, I looked up who was pope then to find out if it was him. It wasn't, but as I was reading this dude's biography in a Catholic encyclopedia, I realized I was accidentally reading spoilers for the fucking game. Similarly, I somehow got lost down a Wikipedia hole around the time Assbro came out and got to Pope Alexander VI and was reading about him, then realized his name was Rodrigo Borgia and that I was just reading the fucking plot of the game. It's fantastic the amount of effort they went through, not just to make it historically accurate, but to take that history and all of these disparate moments in the Italian renaissance and tie it all together in an believable, intricate conspiracy that never even sort of happened.
Anyway, rumor is that the next game is gonna be the French Revolution and I have no idea which side the Assassins are on and which side the Templars are on, since I have to assume Louis XVI was a Templar and I can totally see Robespierre as an Assassin who acquired a PoE and became corrupt and I have no idea where Napoleon stands at all, but I bet he'll be an ally and I am so excited.
Tom:
That would make sense, but I could see Robespierre as Templar plant/agitator. I've got the remains of a random Shelley quote bouncing around in my head about how the Jacobins completely soured the Revolution. I may be wrong but the Reign of Terror was more or less a Reign of Fascism as well.
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