Glimpses

Look where you jump! Straight off the bat, Brotherhood has the worst parkour mechanics of the first 3 entries in the franchise. Considering that this was the first thing I had to say about it sums up my experience of this game. It was frustrating, to be kind. The character seemed to have a mind of its own, he just wouldn’t listen to me. On numerous occasions he jumped in an entirely different direction than intended and messed up my efforts of running away from the guards or reaching a difficult spot. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is just an expansion of the previous game. Playing it, one realizes why it wasn’t just named Assassin’s Creed III. There are some new additions this time around, and much of the action takes place in Rome now. Everything else is the same as the last part. Come out and play The story is picked up right where it was left in AC II, and carries forward the conflict between the Templars and the Assassins, and the role Ezio played in Rome. The enemy that he left al...

More than a year after playing the first entry in this iconic series, I moved on to the second one. The reason for this gap was that I didn’t want to bore myself to death playing entries in the same series one after the other. I would switch to some other game before coming back to a series   I was previously going through, but with AC this duration stretched on for a bit too long. This might have been because I didn’t invest myself very thoroughly in AC1. I played it just to play it, just to get a brush with a game that I had only seen attractive wallpapers of and heard great things about. Having bought a new gaming laptop (“budget” gaming laptop, budget being silent), I was eager to play the titles I had only been dreaming about up until that point. So I dove straight into AC1, but didn’t explore its depths. I was careful not to commit that same mistake with AC2. Also, by this time I had evolved into something of a completionist, having achieved 99% completion in Far Cry 4 and ...

[Originally written on 2nd Oct 2019]   Having just walked and fought in the land of knights, templars, kings, assassins, crusaders, thieves, thugs, and horses, my own reality doesn’t feel so real anymore. That is how rich the environment of Assassin’s Creed is. It feels so very real, even though it’s set thousands of years ago. The visuals are appealing, and much attention has been paid to every detail. Each small element is in its rightful place, so when the protagonist, Altair, climbs walls, he holds on to stuff that is actually there, instead of clinging to an invisible crack in the wall, thus making his climb more believable. Another thing is the ambiance. It felt like I was really walking in an actual city. The citizens had so much variety and they behaved in such a manner that I couldn’t help reacting the same way as I would when encountering them in real life. The beggars, for instance, keep following you, running after you, and that actually frustrated me. Then there ar...