[Shin Densetsu]

All things Assassin's Creed here! Any of you thinking of buying the McFarlane Assassin's Creed figures? To be honest I was disappointed that they scored the license. NECA wanted to make a figure of Connor from AC3 but they could not get the license before the end of last year.

Right off the bat, what McFarlane will undoubtely do better is make a much wider selection of figures. Their 1st assortments indicate that they are not limiting themselves to just countless versions of Ezio and Altaire. They are already making different pirates(some yet to be revealed) from AC4, some of Desmond's other ancestors, and people for Connor to fight from AC3. Range of motion will probably be better but from what I saw of McFarlane's Connor prototype, NECA still has them beat for sculpts.

I got into AC somewhat late. I played the 1st one briefly a few years back, then bought Revelations last year or the year before(since it had AC1 on the disc). Beat Revelations, then 1, then 2, then Brotherhood. Brotherhood is my favorite so far. I have to say, story-wise, 2 probably had the strongest. The way everything culminated before Ezio fought the Pope....so awesome.

Discuss!

[Dr Kain]

You know, I have mixed feelings on the AC series. The first game was extremely subpar, as it got really boring almost halfway through and then the cliffhanger was an insult. I also hated how you could not kill any of your targets in secrecy, so you always had that hide and seek game after killing a target every time.

However, ACII was down right incredible. It was like they listened to every complaint about the first game and fixed it, making for one phenomenal experience. Not only was Ezio's story compelling, but I started to gain a big interest in Desmond as well and had fun with his little moments too. THe areas in ACII were a blast to play through, but the carnival was and still is the greatest moment in the entire AC series. Everything from the costumes, the masks, to the tournaments were fun. And even though the game still left off on a cliffhanger, it was still fun and did not seem like an insult as it had before. It felt like I had completed a story.

Brotherhood had some great moments to it as well despite it's slow start, while Revelations became more of the same. I did love the closure feeling to Ezio's story in Revelations, but you could definitely see that the game was rushed. Oh, and the tower defense bit was atrocious.

The Embers movie that finishes Ezio's story was quite good though.

Which brings me to ACIII, which was a vast disappointment. Connor was a supbar assassin, he was slow, the controls no longer felt fluid, and the assassinations became scripted QTEs instead of straight up assassinations I could plan out and do my self. Most important, this game was a friggin glitch fest. I cannot 100% it because of a glitch with the Homestead stuff, as even though it says I have scanned all of the workers, the game only recognizes that I have scanned the lumberers twice and any time I scan them doing something it gives me an error message. And then the ending was an even bigger insult to our intelligence than the first game's ending. In fact, it has completely ruined the series for me and I will not be playing Black Flag (which should not even have a number in front of it, as it is NOT a sequel).

[Electric Turahk]

I am disappointed by McFarlane getting the toy license as well, but since I never managed to get any of the NECA figures, I guess I won't have to worry now about hunting them down since they just won't fit together. :/

I do like how McFarlane is making more characters (dear lord NECA made too many Ezios), but at the same time, the sculpts really aren't nearly as good. Especially with the joint pins and whatnot showing. But I'll still probably try to/want to get them all...

Assassin's Creed was the first series I played on the Xbox. I fell in love almost instantly. I have really enjoyed it the whole way through, even if there were some bumps along the way. Revelations being a somewhat boring copy of Brotherhood, for example. Or that horrible ending to ACIII. But I like the premise of Black Flag, although it definitely leaves me wanting to know who our present-day protagonist will be that we're playing Edward through...

[Dr Kain]

Yeah, NECA doesn't understand the concept of character variation regardless of what it is. They had the license for God of War and chose to only make like 6 different versions of Kratos, nothing else. With Legacy of Kain, they made 3 different versions of Raziel and one Kain, again, no one else. With Resident Evil, they were doing variations of zombies and Las Plagas, but forgot about half of the actual cast. They did Jill, Chris, Leon with jacket, Leon in RPD, Leon without jacket, Ada, RE5 Chris, and Sheva, but they never bothered with Wesker, Claire, Ashley, Barry, Carlos, or Rebecca.

[Paladin]

While I found the first entry to be repetitive and forgettable, Assassins Creed 2 is one of my five favorite Xbox games of all time- it plays great and it has a very compelling story; Ezio is a superb protagonist. That mostly stays true through Brotherhood but stumbles a lot in Revelations-which brought in way too much unnecessary side stuff (Seriously? a Tower Defense subsystem for Assassins?)

Three i just recently picked up, and while I like it I do think its not as good as predecessors. The controls aren't as tight and the overall gameplay isn't as polished as before. And Connor/Raton's not explored enough to make me feel for him as a character.

I hope the timeline from game-to-game keeps progressing regularly. I'd love to see an Assassin in the Old West setting (think Zorro-ish gameplay )

[Shin Densetsu]

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

I am disappointed by McFarlane getting the toy license as well, but since I never managed to get any of the NECA figures, I guess I won't have to worry now about hunting them down since they just won't fit together. :/

I do like how McFarlane is making more characters (dear lord NECA made too many Ezios), but at the same time, the sculpts really aren't nearly as good. Especially with the joint pins and whatnot showing. But I'll still probably try to/want to get them all...

Assassin's Creed was the first series I played on the Xbox. I fell in love almost instantly. I have really enjoyed it the whole way through, even if there were some bumps along the way. Revelations being a somewhat boring copy of Brotherhood, for example. Or that horrible ending to ACIII. But I like the premise of Black Flag, although it definitely leaves me wanting to know who our present-day protagonist will be that we're playing Edward through...

What I hate about McFarlane is their insistance on using PVC construction and all the associated qc problems from it. Stuck joints, fragile parts, et al. I have some of their HALO figures, pretty decent figures but some are prone to the problems mentioned above.

What I liked about Revelations was the assassination abilities added to Ezio. You can kill Shakulu in the end from an extremely high altitude...in the previous games you would have just straight up died on impact. The ending battle was incredible too. I was very impressed by it.

Gotta admit, I haven't felt inclined to finish up Desmond's animus memories on Animus Island, they were kind of boring and I don't think they really added to the game.

Otherwise, Revelations felt, as some of you have stated, like a copy of Brotherhood with more assassination techniques and the Animus Island. It just didn't feel as fun. I thought the Altaire Codex flashbacks were great though. Thing is that could've just been made as a DLC bundle of side-missions for any of the previous games.

I hope that McFarlane makes the following:

• Ezio(Armor of Brutus from Brotherhood)
• Ezio(Armor of Altair from ACII)
• Ezio(Armor of Ishak Pasha from Revelations)
• Cesare Borgia
• Rodrigo Borgia as Pope
• Al Mualim
• Robert de Sable
• Abbas
• Old Man Hermit Altair(return to Masayaf/Abbas assassination flashback in Revelations)

[Switchblade]

I've been playing these very intensely since last fall, only slowing up recently when I got Injustice. I'm currently in the later part of ACIII - really loving it a lot. My favorite is definitely Brotherhood - love Rome so damn much - but III is probably just edging out II as my second favorite.

[Shin Densetsu]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I've been playing these very intensely since last fall, only slowing up recently when I got Injustice. I'm currently in the later part of ACIII - really loving it a lot. My favorite is definitely Brotherhood - love Rome so damn much - but III is probably just edging out II as my second favorite.

I will definitely get III sometime this year. It looks awesome and I want to now how exactly Desmond's role plays out in relation to Juno.

[Sentai]

Confession. I never made it out on the tuturiol for Assassins Creed, the first one. The part were you gave to gently push aside people without them spilling their vases? Yea. I failed it for an hour and said screw this I'm playing DC Universe.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

Confession. I never made it out on the tuturiol for Assassins Creed, the first one. The part were you gave to gently push aside people without them spilling their vases? Yea. I failed it for an hour and said screw this I'm playing DC Universe.

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