Assassin's Creed 2 ain't afraid of no Call of Duty

by Griffin McElroy on Aug 24th 2009 10:00PM

Though scores of once-Holiday releases have scattered in fear of the oncoming force of nature known as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, one title has held the line: Assassin's Creed 2. A juggernaut in its own right, this Da Vinci-inspired sequel has defiantly remained in its original November 17 release date -- just one week after the launch of Infinity Ward's megablockbuster.

Assassin's Creed 2 creative director Patrice Desilets recently stated in an interview with VG247 that Ubisoft isn't afraid of the latest Call of Duty title's proximity to its own holiday offering. He explained, "the first [Assassin's Creed] game we released two weeks after Modern Warfare, and we still sold 9m copies." That maybe true, but the first Modern Warfare didn't feature 50 Cent. You guys are totally screwed this time around.

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Assassin's Creed is also coming out a week after COD MW2. Most people will have the 6 hour campaign in COD beat by then.

AND it has Kristen Bell in it.

Now seriously, can 50 Cent hang with Kristen Bell? I think not. Just Google her.

a lot of people don't play COD for the campaign...

But they're willing to charge you for it, aye Sly?

he has a point....I think they should do a MP ONLY version of CoD Titles and make it like $40.....hell that shit would sell

Don't give Activision anymore horrible ideas. Single player should ALWAYS come first, no matter what, no exceptions.

lol....I'm sure they already have that idea....lol...I mean SOCOM has its loyal millions and did just fine with a Rocky start AND it being just MP

I don't think AC2 will sell as well as AC did, simply because people don't like playing the same level over and over and over again. I didn't even beat AC because I got so bored doing the exact same thing every 15 minutes. Jump around on the roof. Jump down. Do the same three side missions for a while. Assassinate a guy with the same technique every time. Go back. Jump around on the roof. You get the idea.

don't get me wrong, i play it. but usually as fast as i can so that i can jump into the multiplayer right after.

*googles Kristen Bell*... wow she is like a hot Kristen Dunst!

tmac, you don't represent everyone else. i personally only care about multiplayer. i know there are others like me, i know others who alternate between single and multi, and i know some, like you, who only play single player. aggie is right, a lot of people would buy a MP-only COD. the story (even though it's awesome) isn't exactly bioshock you know.

Rocky I think they have shown off enough for most people to realize that a lot has changed....I mean in terms of side missions and repetition and such

Sorry Kristen Bell is far more "thug' than fiddy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBu_mkcpSU

It doesn't have a good story, but it's fun as hell to play through even if it was short. There's more than enough games to play deathmatch in all the time, and besides they're just going to recycle 99% of MW1's online.

Again, single player comes first. All the time, no matter what, no exceptions.

The day people start focusing on online only is the day this industry stagnates and dies. There's only so many games people can farm deathmatches in before even they realize they've been doing the same thing endlessly.

again, let me say that you don't represent everyone. if all games were single player, my gaming hobby would have started and ended with super mario 64. playing the same deathmatch over and over? each person is different, and their play style reflects that. it may be the same general concept, but no one match is the same as another. but single player has no variations (within the same difficulty level). same AI, same setpieces, everything.

tl;dr version: your argument against multiplayer also applies to single player.

@tmac

I agree with you that singleplayer is important. Single-player only games like Bioshock, Half-Life 2, and Shadow Complex are the games that keep me amazed at video games, but really, the COD series has never had a very strong campaign, and most people buy it just for the multiplayer. I don't think there's anything wrong with them focusing on creating a fantastic multiplayer experiance and leaving single player, which they're just not as good at, on the sidelines. There are other fantastic developers that are better at making a single player experiance, Infinity Ward can keep wowing me with their fantastic online play.

I represent the health of the industry on this one. We'll be going down a very very bad path if too many multi only games pop up. It'll dilute the industry just as much or more than the mass of casual shovelware games we're getting now.

so i take it that you don't have a response for my argument that your complaint about multiplayer also applies to single player, possibly even more so?

and to reply to what you said, of course multiplayer only games will ruin the industry. that's why there will always be single player. but to say that single player should always be the focus is stupid. multiplayer in shooters is just as valuable as the single player. do you think COD4 would have had such lasting sales if it was single player only? of course, there are some exceptions that pop up - bioshock comes to mind, but that's one of the few shooters that relies heavily on story.

Single player should be the focus always, because there's no value in multiplayer. How hard is it to slap some maps together, make it so people don't spawn into enemies, and make a lobby so they can shit talk and be racists before matches?

Single player's where you get all of the classic games of all time, because of the story or characters or gameplay. You don't see multiplayer shooters near the very top, and for very good reason...because you just run around killing people. There's no value in that.

when i finish getting a full orgasm from modern warfare 2 -- i'll get used AC2

"How hard is it to slap some maps together, make it so people don't spawn into enemies, and make a lobby so they can shit talk and be racists before matches?"

alright tmac, you have 1 year to make a decent multiplayer shooter. let's see how hard it really is.

"You don't see multiplayer shooters near the very top, and for very good reason...because you just run around killing people. There's no value in that."

really? we've never seen halo at the top? we've never seen COD at the top? we've never seen gears of war at the top? REALLY?

and running around killing people? that's what you do in single player too. do you know what the difference is? in single player, you have a light story tying together all the maps, and you have stupider enemies. in multiplayer, you pretty much just lose the story, and play real people, who make real thoughts, and in some cases, work together as a team.

next response please.

Sly wins!!!!

again, just to make it clear, it's cool that you're a single-player guy. it's just that saying that multiplayer is unimportant and is always the same is just a purely ignorant statement.

I've never seen halo anywhere near the top 10 on just about every list i can think of. I've also never played any kind of multiplayer game where anyone even tried to use the slightest ounce of teamwork. I'd argue the enemies on veteran were tougher than most real people I ever went up against, and I'm by far not the best player out there online.

There's no value at all to mindlessly running around and killing people. It's the bare minimum of playing a video game. and requires no thought or skill to win.

of course enemies on veteran are harder. they kill you the second you pop out of cover. and yeah, i know most people don't work as a team. that's why i said IN SOME CASES.

and will you please clarify what you mean by top 10? because i'm talking sales, and i'm sure you're referring to something else.

Yeah I said the classic games of all time, not sales of shooters which as we know are mostly driven by frat boys and kids, most of them who have no knowledge of what a truly great game is.

They're almost as bad as casuals buying all that wii shovelware.....almost.

(Does Sly realize that Sly Cooper was a single player game?)

to be fair, true shooters rarely make top 10 video game lists of all times. and they don't know what a truly great game is? you do know that how much you like a game is an OPINION right? like i've said in this thread a bunch of times, YOU DON'T REPRESENT ANYONE EXCEPT FOR YOURSELF. i like LBP. i thought it was easily worth $60. you didn't. did i say your opinion is automatically invalid from now on? or how i didn't like fallout 3 that much. did i go around saying it's crap? no, i didn't. i understand how people liked it, but it just didn't appeal to me. it's cool to think what you think, as long as you don't think you're the voice of the universe.

Sly 3 had multiplayer, actually.

@tmac: Every week or so, Major Nelson posts a few different top ten lists for Xbox Live: heres the one from Aug. 10

Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on Unique Users)
1 Call of Duty: WaW
2 Halo 3
3 Call of Duty 4
4 Gears of War 2
5 GTA IV
6 1 vs 100
7 FIFA 09
8 Trials HD
9 Battlefield 1943
10 Madden NFL 10

The first 4... are multiplayer shooters with single player and in total half the list is multiplayer based. Interesting to note, is that he also posts the top ten for Original Xbox games, heres the one from the same week:

Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Fable
5 Splinter Cell Chaos
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Doom 3
8 Star Wars: Battlefront
9 SW: Republic Commando
10 Call of Duty 3

Halo 2 has retained the number one position, each time the list is posted... and on this list, 9 out of the 10 games are multiplayer shooters. Yes they have single player modes too.

So if you've never seen Halo 3 or CoD4 at the top of a top ten list... now you have. And I can tell you this... Halo 3, has bounced between one and two on its list, since its release in 2007.

tmac:
http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/scores/
that kind of top 10? the kind that has halo3, cod4, tf2 (orange box), gears, streetfighter4 in it?

Highest rated doesn't have anything to do with being the best of all time, specially when games like GTA 4 and Halo 3 suffered the hype effect. Just go back and read some of those reviews and you'll see how ludicrous some of them are, like Shu's splooging of Halo 3.

i think it's fair to say this argument is over. good night tmac and all.

"So if you've never seen Halo 3 or CoD4 at the top of a top ten list... now you have"

*facepalm*

You posted a list that is specifically for online games only, what else would be up there? I said best games of all time, not xbox live's weekly online list.

You might as well have posted a list of most played racers and then told me "SEE? THEY'RE ALL RACERS!!"

@tmac
You're making some mighty large generalizations there, buddy. Don't be ignorant. "Frat boys and kids?" Got any other stats you wanna pull out of your ass? As for the so called "best games of all time" top ten list; that's totally subjective. Here you go:

Silencio's top ten bestest games of all time:
cod MW
halo 3
cod waw
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah
blah

Sorry if I just blew your mind.

No teamwork? What? Get some friends. I love the online shooters. Saying they have no substance is pretty ignorant. Either you just had a bad time with a certain game, or you are horrible at them. I've had more fun with CoD4 multiplayer than i will ever have with most single player games. And saying they have no meaning is a really weak argument when you have only your opinion to back it up.

"There's no value at all to mindlessly running around and killing people. It's the bare minimum of playing a video game. and requires no thought or skill to win."

Opinion. This statement just makes me mad. If it requires no skill, I would love to see you go play with the MLG guys and beat ANY of them. Veteran on CoD4 isnt nearly as difficult as a well coordinated team online.

I agree with tmac. Without single player this industry would die. Single player games are where virtually all the creativity exists. And as he said, people can really only invest themselves in so many MP games. People usually pick one or two and stay with them until a better game or a sequel launches... which could be years. So without SP games not only would most of the creativity die, so would most of the cash flow.

Let me qualify that last statement by saying that I don't agree with tmac that MP games are mindless. I just think they are more important for the health of the industry than MP games.

its not like they are similar games tho...AC2 well sell on the Strength of what it is and there is nothing like it....

except for crack down and every other sand box aggie. Thats not to say that is a bad thing. I loved the first and in lieu of the price hike on CODMW2 I will choose the altair pokemon.

Ummmmm AC is FAR Greater than Crackdown....story and Gameplay altogether....and I suppose I should have said that its nothing similar to it coming out this fall....i.e. MAG & MW2 are Similar games

Sorry, I just find the acronym CODMW2 adorably hysterical.

Yea it's a little far fetched to say there's "nothing like it"

Prototype feels a LOT like Assassins Creed, as does GTA4 and Crackdown and all the others. Assassins Creed differs mostly in that it lacks guns, and takes place in the past.

Of course there are far more shooters than games of this type, but that doesn't make it one of a kind.

well you should be afraid very very afraid muhahahahahahaha

lol, watch AC2 feature its own gangsta rapper to combat MW2.

I could SOOOO See Slo-lil-boy-tell-em as one of the Assassination targets....

If they did that, the sales of AC2 would go through the roof...

I would make Slo-lil-boy-tell-em do the "bird walk" after I "crank that" foot up a$$, lol

I will be getting both for sure. Totally different game styles so that helps. The decision would be harder if they were both FPS.

Ezio... or Soap... ah, screw it, why choose? although i'm afraid i won't be able to be torn away from MW2 multiplayer for long enough to even start AC2.

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