The Guildmasters

It seems this is the final day, yes I actually completed the game, now I know that seems fairly quickly but I only really completed the main story, there were more assassination side quests, beat quests, race quests and also not forgetting more treasures to find and feathers, I only found around 30 of the 100.

The only thing i’m disappointed in is the fact that I wanted it to go on forever, it is a great game, and the ending wasn’t disappointing either, there is definitely room for another assassins creed at a later date which could follow on.

I did complete all the codex pages which was needed to complete the game anyway, I didn’t get all paintings, i’m missing one, I did collect all armor and i’m one weapon short, don’t know what that one is yet.

I’ve just finished letting the credits role and it’s started me off in my room at the villa so hopefully I can complete the rest of what I didn’t do before the end of the story.

Ok this is cool, i’ve just run down to the fast travel spot and travelled to Venice and everything is still open, even the assassination contracts which I thought would go away with the completion of the game, all the treasures are still there to collect so even though i’ve completed the game I can still play through to complete the unfinished sections, that’s cool.

Well I don’t know if this play by post would actually help anyone, just wanted to write down my progress as I played. Now I will start fresh next week on the complete walkthrough, in my own words so it won’t be a copy of an original walkthrough or anything like that, and I will list everything, including all hidden treasures, seals, feathers, side quests and even trophies for the PS3 and how to get them so keep a lookout for that.

Tony

I’ve had to post for the last few days here in one as I lost my internet service provider and it’s taken this long to get back online so my apologies for that.

Well over the last few days it’s been an amazing game, i’ve ridden a boat, I believe they are known as “punts”, the ones used for travelling the canals of venice, i’ve also ridden a stagecoach, flown in Leonardo’s invention of an aircraft, primative but it flew enough to get me to where I needed to be for one quest.

One of the more difficult quests is the one where you have to get all six seals from Assassins tombs to unlock the large gate so you can acquire the rare armor of Altair, these six seals I have now acquired.

I’ve also managed to discover all but 5 of the Codex pages, each of which has to be decyphered by my friend Leonardo.

After many quests involving assassinations I realized that I shouldn’t have just been killing guards like I have been doing (but it was so much fun), I should have been more stealthy in order to keep my notoriety level down, you can hide the guards bodies in gullies on rooftops or in haystacks (after robbing them of their gold obviously).

I have strayed from the main storyline several times in order to gather “feathers” for my mother, or hidden treasure, which is various amounts of gold hidden inside chests, some are fairly obvious and easy to spot, others are either well hidden or make you really think “how on earth can I get to that?”.

Another amazing thing about this game is reactions, by you, by other people and even by the horse you ride, it’s so lifelike. I decided in a side quest (riding a horse to beat a time) to run a bunch of people over with my horse, sure i’d knock them flying instead of going round them, to my surprise I got knocked off my horse and even my horse fell over, probably exactly how it would happen in real life.

I think I might be fairly close to finishing the main storyline but it’s impossible to tell with this game, i’ll try and complete the rest of the codex pages tomorrow and some more assassination quests, it’s the assassinations which enable you to progress through the story.

I will be looking forward to writing the walkthrough, there will be so much to do and it will involve finding everything in the game and getting all the trophies, i’ll do that on the second time around, I look forward to that a lot.

Tony

Well i’m more amazed today than I was yesterday, I managed to find the other 3 codex and also the remaining statue I was after, what amazed me was just when I thought i’d seen pretty much all the game had to offer something else emerged that took me by surprise.

I went back to the fortress, my uncles mansion/villa is inside the fortress and there are many houses and shops within the fortress walls, anyway on my return my sister was sitting at a desk with an open book, apparently my uncle had put her to work, the problem was after checking the books the whole estate wasn’t bringing in enough money so this is where me and my sister put our heads together and organize a way of making some income.

It turns out if I get enough money, I can then give it to the archtect who will then upgrade buildings and shops which in turn brings in more people, more people means more money so we earn an income.

So indirectly this massive villa or mansion is sort of mine, I pay money to the architect, he renovates the shops and there are quite a few, a bank, blacksmith,armory and several other places, each have 3 upgrade amounts which in turn gives me a better income as well as bigger discounts when I shop there, that is so cool.

I’ve now learnt more moves, got more weapons, I have acquired the other gauntlet now with the hidden blade and can perform pretty impressive assassin attacks, if a guard is standing near a pile of hay then I can hide in the hay and press the square button for assassinate and i’ll drag the guard in the hay as I kill him, another move is if i’m standing above an enemy, I can lock on to him using the L1 trigger and hit “assassinate” ( square ) and I will jump down with hidden gauntlet blades revealed to deal a death blow, looks pretty awesome, i’ve also learnt extra techniques like dodging and disarming an opponent.

You can also use groups of people to your advantage, you can pay groups of thieves to follow you and distract guards, I think this game is going to be massive, it seems I haven’t even scratched the surface yet.

I’ve also learnt that I need to find hidden crypts or tombs and i’ve also got to find six discs to unlock the most poweful armor so i’ll keep my eyes open for those.

That’s all for today, will progress some more tomorrow, i’m actually looking forward to writing a full walkthrough on this game which is something as i’ve never felt the need or the inclination to write a walkthrough for any game.

Tony

Wow, second day saw me complete getting my mother and sister away to my uncles fortress, bandits attacked us on the way and my uncle came to the rescue, his place is huge.

I’ve also found out you can ride horses, and if like me you thought oblivion was cool Assassins Creed 2 makes oblivion’s horse look like a rocking horse, the movement is as close to real life as it’s going to get.

At the moment i’m trying to find 4 codex but i’ve only managed to find one. I’ve also found all but one of the statues that need replacing in the gardens I suppose you would call them, when two statues are replaced on each of the pedestals the statue base opens up and you get rewarded with a chunk of cash, I love those shiny’s lol.

I really thought this game was going to be short but after playing it and checking the map and everything else available it might just end up being longer than Oblivion, at first I thought I was going to be stuck in just one city but that’s not the case, it’s very open ended which again was a surprise.

I really enjoyed playing a game called fable, this is in some ways a lot like fable but like 100 times more advanced, it seems everything I do reminds me of another game only better, you have certain puzzles to solve although I don’t think it’s neccessary and hidden treasures/secrets which remind me of tomb raider (only better), you can pick up bodies and hide them like splinter cell (only better) and get this, you can actually search the bodies and recover your throwing knives and get cash from their pockets, and it actually shows you searching their bodies, it’s amazing, I also love the things people say too, the conversations are great.

Anything you’ve ever enjoyed about a really good RPG is in this game, I struggled to leave it alone just to write this.

I’m off to try and find the other 3 codex now before bed then i’ll play some more tomorrow, I will definitely write a review on this game and I may even write a full walkthrough if I have the time.

Tony

Well Assassins Creed 2 arrived in the mail today and i’ve been playing it for about 3 hrs. It would be hard not to call this game awesome, cool and all the other great words that come to mind when discovering a new game that doesn’t let you down.

After only 3hrs this game is way beyond expectations, there is so much to do, the story is unbelievable and it’s an enjoyment to play at every turn.

For the first two hours I didn’t even have a weapon but it didn’t give me that feeling of “where the hell is my weapons”, there is so much to do and explore, and just when you think you’ve got most of the moves down it gives you something new to learn.

The graphics are excellent and it’s as close as it gets to playing like a movie.

So far i’ve learnt to steal, to blend in with a crowd to avoid detection by guards, and i’ve just had my dad’s glove and dagger repaired by my friend leonardo.

It seems i’ve now taken on my fathers role of an assassin since he was betrayed, carted off to prison and hanged, yes I witnessed the hanging which is why the guards are now after me, it’s so cool.

To distract you can throw coins on the floor, there are many different moves when fighting, I like the idea of grabbing an enemy and being able to throw him in the line of fire.

You can swim, dive, steal, upgrade weapons, there looks like there are plenty of unlockables, you can easily scale walls and the scenery at the top of some of the highest buildings is very cool, then after a look around dive off and land in a cart load of hay.

I’m thoroughly enjoying this game and i’m going to take my time, I want to find all the hidden treasures so i’ll go on a bit over the next week or so, it really is amazing, if you can’t afford to buy this game at least definitely rent it, i’ll definitely pay the keep price for this one.

Will post more tomorrow night as I progress through the game.

Tony

With Assassins Creed 2 out now I will be playing it hopefully tomorrow or the next day, just waiting for it to be delivered and it sounds like an awesome game, top reviews so far so i’m very much looking forward to this game.

I will probably write a play by play post here each night as i’ll play the game at least once all the way through and update each evening.

From what i’ve read so far, apart from awesome graphics, scenery and storyline there seems to be a lot of upgrading weapons and so forth. I’ll let you know more when the game arrives and I start playing it, I eagerly await my mailman for a change, let’s just hope there are no bills, lol.

Tony

Saboteur looks like another great RPG and just in time for christmas,

the good thing is you can pre-order it now at amazon with the pre-order price guarantee, which means if the price comes down by the day it's shipped you get it at the cheaper price.

So what's Saboteur all about? Here is the storyline, and if that isn't enough, i've seen the graphics, this game is on my save queue for renting now.

Description:Welcome to Nazi-occupied Paris, a unique open world where you are The Saboteur. Play as Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish racing mechanic seeking personal redemption on a Nazi officer that has taken everything away from him. Now, it's time for payback with the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn, you must exact revenge on those who aimed to destroy your life. Motivated by retribution and armed with tactics of sabotage, blow up zeppelins, derail trains, implode bridges, destroy armored tanks, and level enemy facilities in the name of vengeance, in the first open-world action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Available on xbox 360 and PS3 sounds and looks like another great RPG for the wish list, game releases December 8th so get in early.