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AC:R - Day 1 (Single Player)
This is going to be a giant spoilerific splorge about how much I'm probably going to adore this game now that I'm home and have been playing for a couple of hours. Here goes.
First off, I love and hate that they got Jon Delance for William. I mean.... omnipotent and arrogant, yes. A person you want to trust with your physical and mental health.... perhaps not so much. The little snatches of Rebecca and Shaun make me smile, and knowing that they did lose Lucy is one of the hardest things about the early bits of this game.
There's some concern about this game being too big, too complicated, and pushed out too soon... but then I know once I'm done winging on about the changes, I'll probably adore it.
The city is absolutely magnificent. Completely different in color and flavor and texture from any of the Italian cities. Distinctly foreign. (Masyaf looked amazing too! I wish I'd had more time to explore it!) The viewpoints in Constantinople almost all do that stomach-plummeting thing that Jerusalem and the very highest AC2 points did to me. Which is nice, and scary, but nice.
There's a tearing difference between Ezio, looking oddly thinner and sounding so much older and more tired and young Desmond, fighting to regain himself after a lifetime lived in the stretch of a few weeks. Sixteen breaks my heart, and I really want him to be played by Alan Tudyk if they ever make a movie. I wish there was a way to fix him, but I really don't know what can be done.
Desmond Story Part 1 was.... amazing. Beautiful and unlike anything else we've seen throughtout the games. I'm so so pleased that we get to see some of Desmond's story. Because while we've been in his head for so long, we know very little of his history - and most of that from off hand comments by Vidic and things. The animus island is also lovely, but unearlthly and very different from other places we've been. I didn't want to leave or advance the plot so much as just explore. And I feel the same way so far about Desmond's Animus Core missions.... they're just so cool to look at and explore!
First off, I love and hate that they got Jon Delance for William. I mean.... omnipotent and arrogant, yes. A person you want to trust with your physical and mental health.... perhaps not so much. The little snatches of Rebecca and Shaun make me smile, and knowing that they did lose Lucy is one of the hardest things about the early bits of this game.
There's some concern about this game being too big, too complicated, and pushed out too soon... but then I know once I'm done winging on about the changes, I'll probably adore it.
The city is absolutely magnificent. Completely different in color and flavor and texture from any of the Italian cities. Distinctly foreign. (Masyaf looked amazing too! I wish I'd had more time to explore it!) The viewpoints in Constantinople almost all do that stomach-plummeting thing that Jerusalem and the very highest AC2 points did to me. Which is nice, and scary, but nice.
There's a tearing difference between Ezio, looking oddly thinner and sounding so much older and more tired and young Desmond, fighting to regain himself after a lifetime lived in the stretch of a few weeks. Sixteen breaks my heart, and I really want him to be played by Alan Tudyk if they ever make a movie. I wish there was a way to fix him, but I really don't know what can be done.
Desmond Story Part 1 was.... amazing. Beautiful and unlike anything else we've seen throughtout the games. I'm so so pleased that we get to see some of Desmond's story. Because while we've been in his head for so long, we know very little of his history - and most of that from off hand comments by Vidic and things. The animus island is also lovely, but unearlthly and very different from other places we've been. I didn't want to leave or advance the plot so much as just explore. And I feel the same way so far about Desmond's Animus Core missions.... they're just so cool to look at and explore!