I've never played an Assassin's Creed game before, and was thinking about getting revelations, but after seeing it's meh meh reviews on metacritic, I'm thinking otherwise

Didnt want to up an old thread so I'll just ask here, was any of the preorder content for AC:Brotherhood available as DLC later on? Like the Best Buy,Amazon skins

Eh,honestly didn't like AC:Brotherhood MP.

just gonna download it for pc, like ive done for the whole series lol, dont care for the multiplayer

The reviews don't seem too bad. Excited to pick this up tomorrow Sucks the Defense thing is mandatory. It seems EVERY single person is complaining about it. I don't mind paying full price since I can just price match it later on at Best Buy since the price will tank to the $30s post-Black Friday.

Originally Posted by Luxuria The reviews don't seem too bad. Excited to pick this up tomorrow Sucks the Defense thing is mandatory. It seems EVERY single person is complaining about it. I don't mind paying full price since I can just price match it later on at Best Buy since the price will tank to the $30s post-Black Friday.

I read one review....maybe IGN?, can't remember.....that said the tower defense was a fun diversion. But, that was just one review. At least it's new and different, I suppose. The reviews seemed like the reviews for Gears 3..."more of the same, if that's your thing". Well, it IS my thing, so the scores in the 85ish range are just fine with me. Looking forward to tomorrow. I just need to finish up Batman so I can really dig into this one.

Originally Posted by dennisb407 Didnt want to up an old thread so I'll just ask here, was any of the preorder content for AC:Brotherhood available as DLC later on? Like the Best Buy,Amazon skins

No I'm 95% sure those were never released as DLC. They were mainly MP skins if I remember correctly (Gamestop and BB each had one.)

FYI for those looking to get this at Gamestop to get all the extra content in the signature edition, the redemption code for it has an expiration date of Jan. 15. Given that Ubisoft enforced the expiration date on the bonus content of the Brotherhood CE, it's likely they'll do that again (for Brotherhood they took out the in-game option for redemption and the code isn't a standard XBox/PSN code.)

For Revelations its 1 code but you have to use it twice: soundtrack and epilogue movie (takes place a decade after conclusion of the game but has no spoilers I'm aware of as it's Ezio living his golden years in Florence) have to be redeemed on a PC from the Ubisoft website (zip files, soundtrack- 80MB, movie- 1.9GB) listed on the flier and the in-game stuff is redeemed from the extras option in the main menu.

The reviews on Joystiq, IGN and Gametrailers have all been in the high 80s. Just got home from working the midnight release and am gonna play for a few hours. I need to know what happens to Lucy !!

Originally Posted by MrPiggles I've never played an Assassin's Creed game before, and was thinking about getting revelations, but after seeing it's meh meh reviews on metacritic, I'm thinking otherwise

You should pick up Assassin's Creed 2 mate, it's a beast. The GOTY edition is only £10 these days, I'm sure it's just as cheap wherever you are.

Pleased to say that I picked Revelations up at midnight; played for a couple of hours and so far I love it!

I made a comment earlier in this thread (based on a youtube video) that it didn't look as detailed. Well, I'm a tit. The game looks gorgeous. There's a great flow in this game, the cutscenes and gameplay mix really well. Much more slick.

It sounds like a small thing, but my favourite thing about the game so far is the new variation of the theme. You know, the one piece of music that will kick in every now and again whilst you're strolling along the rooftops. It was lovely in Florence and Venice, but in the Roma variation of the tune, there was a forboding in it. It sounds beautiful this time round.

Looking forward to getting into it properly today.

Originally Posted by dennisb407 Didnt want to up an old thread so I'll just ask here, was any of the preorder content for AC:Brotherhood available as DLC later on? Like the Best Buy,Amazon skins

I was just trying to find it the other day, looks like a big ol no. At one point a month or so after release I ended up selling my GS MP jester code for about $50 (forgot I even had it) so there was at least some lingering demand.

The only thing is it MIGHT have been included with purchase of the Da Vinci DLC as I had a cosmetic armor outift I didn't have access to before when I booted up my game post Da Vinci download and I'm pretty sure it was the BB armor.

Anyone watch the intro video for the multiplayer? I accidentally skipped it and cant watch it again. Care to fill me in on what happened?

About an hour in and I can't believe Lucy is actually dead. There's a bunch of dialogue talking about her death and funeral so unless it's all a gag or Desmond is imagining it...I'm actually pretty disappointed...

The graphics are holy shit amazing

I just picked it up from gamestop and I was able to get the CE of Brotherhood for $25the at best buy. Its an assassins creed celebration, bitches!

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Since there isn't an official thread for Revelations (there was another thread started, but it didn't look like anything official), I figured I would start one.

I'll update the OP later with more info, but for now, feel free to discuss the game.

Desmond is ing ugly in this. Anyone know why they redesigned him? I think it means they may've lost the license for Francisco Randez's likeness.

Originally Posted by BingoBrown Since there isn't an official thread for Revelations (there was another thread started, but it didn't look like anything official), I figured I would start one. I'll update the OP later with more info, but for now, feel free to discuss the game.

It was earlier than this thread, so now yours is merged into the existing one.

Originally Posted by shrike4242 It was earlier than this thread, so now yours is merged into the existing one.

Okay... whatever...

So far its been a little bit of a letdown. I really enjoyed Brotherhood though, i think it was the best in the series. But so far in Revelations im not really digging the map world.

- One thing i hated in GTA san andreas was when your hood is under attack! So how many years later and ubisoft think its a great idea to put in this game. Only its your assassins hideout place that is under attack. Then when you have to defend it you get to play play a pixel junk monsters type game. I only had to do this twice, and i lost the 2nd one. So i had to reclaim that fort, which took all of 2 minutes, but still, its annoying. I really dont want to waste my time playing these mini games. I would rather have them capture it and i can get it back playing the game the way it was meant to be played.

- Another one i hate, maybe its more my fault, but these coward templars you have to kill to get the area for yourself. Dude runs so i go to chase him and ezio decides its a good time to climb a wall instead of going through the door opening, by the time i get down from the wall he is gone and i have to retry tomorrow. -_-

Honestly i liked having assassins and recruiting them in brotherhood, but for some reason i dont really care about it this time around. Would have been cool if your recruits from brotherhood were transfered into this game. Then again that would just make it grandpa assassins running around with the time line.

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wow not 5 minutes later another hood is under attack. So i do it, and im doing really good. They couldnt even break past my first barrier. Then in comes the ram tank, and he plows through everything and they take over. WTF? Whats annoying is im targeting ram tank and shoot the cannon and it totally misses it even though im right on it and see it glowing. Im not even going after these anymore, they can kiss my ass. Once i get them ill buy all the shops and thats all i care about. If they get them back good for them, take them!

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Seems like im always in red, so guards are always noticing me. If i spend the time to get rid of the red, it eventually comes back not long. That is kind of annoying.

I was just doing a mission, did 2/3 of it, then used that tunnel to fast travel and it resets the mission and now i have to do it over. Which was annoying in the first place, trying to kill many guards is annoying in this game. The ones with the long spears you cant counter, and they end up trying to spear you when you are in a fight with someone else. Then i through down some spikes or whatever to make them hop around for easy kills and ezio sticks to this one guy so that whole thing was a waste. One guy left i try to grab, im pressing B, B, BBBBBBBBB and he is just standing there. Oh i guess i had to press LT to re engage my fighting stance, because for whatever reason he decided he was done fighting.

Wow totally getting annoyed by this game, and i LOVED the series up until this game. So far its been nothing but disappointment and frustration.