2 games under my arm

            Long time no blog. I have a couple of games under my belt that I would like to talk about since my last blog. The first one is Assassin’s Creed 2. Boy was that game great. They really did improve upon the original. But the best part of AC2 was the endings. Whether you revealed the truth or not this was an middle aged adults dream!             Many of you have probably heard of the great conspiracy theories of our time. For instance, the countries of the world are not ruled by present government, rather they are ruled by shadow governments that are mainly headed up by big business or powerful economic figures. All of this comes under question when you play AC2 and I think they wrapped up all of these crazy theories quite nicely. I found it a blast to look at the ending and contemplate. The creators of AC2 made this game for the 30 and up crowd, I’m sure of it! Because only that age group can truly appreciate the ending of that game. What kid believes the Illuminati created all of this strife to keep the common man down?!?! I really appreciate the gritty writing of AC2 and I certainly am looking forward to AC3 not so much for the game play but more for the story. I really wish I was able to get more of my thoughts down as I finished this game because I had some much stuff swimming through my head by the end of it. Again this is why I appreciate a site like this because I sound like an idiot when I bring this up at work.

            For anyone who has not played AC2 I highly, highly recommend it. The other cool thing about the series is that it is more sandbox than you think it is. Many complained that it was too easy to earn the money in the game. I argue that they made the money system that way for those that were not willing to put in the hours to this game and still enjoy the majority of the game. Same with the Stealth kills. You could easily go into this game with just razor sharp reflexes and still achieve the goal. But for those that got into the lore you could play the game a completely different way and go for the stealth kills. This might have made the game a little misdirected but I think they left the game open for you to direct it. In other words, this game is truly what you make of it. Even the first AC was like this. You could go into it mashing buttons and prevail but you could also hold yourself to a higher standard and make the game as hard or as easy as you wish.