Assassin's Creed was an amazing game when it came out. It surprised so many people with its amazing graphics, game play, and limitless possibilities. I never owned the game, but I was always eager to play it whenever I was at my friend's house. I didn't really know much about the storyline because I never did mission's. All that I knew was that you played the role of a man in the near future. He works for scientists as a test dummy who enters this virtual-reality chamber that allows you to experience medieval times through the eyes of an assassin. The group of assassins that the main character is a part of kills only corrupt government officials and helps peasants that are abused by knights. At my friend's house I never did the missions for story mode. I just messed around by killing guards. It was also pretty fun just to run around the small towns and climb giant buildings.
Assassin's Creed got many great reviews. Its review scores ranged from 9.5 to 10 out of a possible 10. Currently, the sequel to this great game should be coming out soon. But, this makes me and my fellow gamers wonder, how can they possibly make the sequel equivalent, if not better than the original? I watched the trailer and some game play footage, and I was in awe. Both the trailer and footage showed that this time, the group of assassin's are in the Renaissance era. Now this is great. If my parents wonder why I bought the game, I might be able to make them overlook the fact that the game is rated M and say "I find this highly educational because I'm learning about the Renaissance in history class." The other thing the trailer revealed about the storyline is who the assassin's are enemies with. Now they are against the corrupt Roman Catholic Church (which I am learning about in history class). In order to improve game play, the creators have added new tools, new weapons, new combat features, and Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine (its a glider). All of this is making me extremely eager to play this masterpiece of a game.
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the plot, if i remember correctly, is that you're playing some guy whose ancestors were part of the assassins guild thing. they're trying to get your ancestor's memories from you through this wierd machine thing because they're looking for something.
ReplyDeletei don't exactly remember it; i've only played the first one.
I'm interested in the connections between the game and your history class. I bet that's tricky...sure they based it off historical research, but to what extent can we really say we're learning about the Renaissance by playing a video game about it?
ReplyDeleteWell, the game does have realistic architecture that they based on the city of Jerusalem (that they had to work together with historians to create). And, in the trailer for the second one, this "posse" of assassins were angry against the corrupt Catholic Church (which was corrupt during the time of the Renaissance).
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