Product Description
Assassin's Creed 2
PC
Product Details
- Amazon
Sales Rank: #1938 in Video Games
- Brand: UBI Soft
- Model:
008888685340
- Released on: 2010-03-09
- ESRB Rating:
Mature
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format:
DVD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .40 pounds
Features
- Explore
the deadly, shadowed world of the assassin with new assassin Ezio
- Roam
freely through the lush and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy
- Do whatever it takes to complete your missions in the game's
all-new open world and mission structure
- Thrive in an
environment rich with power, revenge and conspiracy
- Practice
your assassin's art with all-new weapons and instruments created by
Leonardo da Vinci
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Hands-On
Review
The world of the assassin is one cloaked in shadow and
steeped in danger. Ensnared in a web of revenge and conspiracy, the
assassin embraces power at its most elemental, acting as the dividing
line between life and death. As an assassin confronted by perilous new
challenges and difficult choices, what path will you choose?
Stunning
Graphics
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Roam
Freely
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All
New Weapons
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Synopsis
Get ready to plunge into
the lush and deadly world of the Italian Renaissance, an era of arts,
riches and murderous conspiracy. Assassin's Creed II introduces you to
Ezio, a new assassin carrying on the deadly lineage of his forebears.
Confront an epic tale of power and corruption as you hone your
assassin's art, wielding weapons and instruments designed by the
legendary Leonardo da Vinci himself in this gripping and deadly sequel. Key
Game Features:
- Explore the deadly, shadowed world of the
assassin with new assassin Ezio
- Roam freely through the lush
and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy
- Do whatever it
takes to complete your missions in the game's all-new open world and
mission structure
- Thrive in an environment rich with power,
revenge and conspiracy
- Practice your assassin's art with
all-new weapons and instruments created by Leonardo da Vinci
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Amazon.com Product Description
The world
of the assassin is one cloaked in shadow and steeped in danger. Ensnared
in a web of revenge and conspiracy, the assassin embraces power at its
most elemental, acting as the dividing line between life and death. As
an assassin confronted by perilous new challenges and difficult choices,
what path will you choose?
Stunning
Graphics
View larger. |
Roam
Freely
View larger. |
All
New Weapons
View larger. |
 |
Synopsis
Get ready to plunge into
the lush and deadly world of the Italian Renaissance, an era of arts,
riches and murderous conspiracy. Assassin's Creed II introduces you to
Ezio, a new assassin carrying on the deadly lineage of his forebears.
Confront an epic tale of power and corruption as you hone your
assassin's art, wielding weapons and instruments designed by the
legendary Leonardo da Vinci himself in this gripping and deadly sequel. Key
Game Features:
- Explore the deadly, shadowed world of the
assassin with new assassin Ezio
- Roam freely through the lush
and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy
- Do whatever it
takes to complete your missions in the game's all-new open world and
mission structure
- Thrive in an environment rich with power,
revenge and conspiracy
- Practice your assassin's art with
all-new weapons and instruments created by Leonardo da Vinci
|
Customer Reviews
SHAMEFUL: a new low for gaming
Gaming has hit an all time
low thanks to UBI Soft. If you didn't like draconian DRM schemes, you're
going to hate UBI Soft's new policy: you must be connected to their
servers 100% of the time to play Assasin's Creed 2. If you don't have
internet, or if your internet is out, or if you are on vacation,
stationed in Iraq, or want to play at the airport, you are out of luck.
No game for you. That in itself is very troubling and reason enough to
NOT BUY THIS GAME. However, there are additional reasons that are even
more frightening:
1) Setting the precedent for future games
If
gamers buy Assasin's Creed despite this huge limitation on game play,
it will open the door to many more games like this in the future. That
would be awful for the consumer.
2) Turning 'owning' into
leasing"
Tying games to some sort of server for activation is bad
enough, but making them DEPENDENT on a server is horrible for the
consumer. It takes away our rights (to play the game we paid for on our
terms) and creates a system whereby you are simply LEASING a game. If at
some point UBI Soft decides to take down their servers, you lose your
game. They can take away your rights to play the game at any point in
the future if they decided to. They have you by the cajones! If you give
into this model, expect to never own any digital medium again; the
makers of games, producers of music, and distributors of movies would
love to see our current model of OWNING a physical copy of your game \
album \ movie replaced with a system where you only own the 'right' to
access \ play that medium. It's their wet-dream to turn the current
system of ownership on its head so they can re-sell you things endlessly
as well as take them away from you at their discretion. As a consumer,
it's important that we speak out against this by supporting DRM free
games (Mass Effect II, Dragon Age, Fallout III, etc...) and DRM free
music (buy it from Amazon!) and REFUSE to buy this junk with built in
limitations and restrictions that SERVE NO PURPOSE.
3) Making
games dependent on 'phoning home' means you're at the total mercy of UBI
Soft (or whomever runs their servers)
If their servers are down,
you lose access to your game. If their servers are overtaxed, you may
experience problems connecting to your game. Think that isn't likely?
Think again. Currently (03/09/2010) the servers have been down for the
last 12 hours or so, creating chaos for all those who expected to be
able to fire up Assassin's Creed. It doesn't even matter if UBI Soft is
malevolent or not; if your service provider has a bad week you may be
out of luck. If there is a storm in your area, you could end up out of
luck for weeks (this happened to me when a tree knocked out my cable
internet for 9 says straight--I thought I was going to die). You're
screwed if your internet, their servers, or anything along the line
between the two goes down.
4) DRM is pointless (and this online
restriction is one of it's worst forms!)
Want to pirate games?
It's tragically easy these days. Even more tragic is that DRM,
supposedly designed to prevent piracy, is a total failure at actually
accomplishing that. Want proof? Google "Spore + DRM + Piracy" and see
what you come up with. I'll give you a hint: Spore was pirated BEFORE it
was officially released. Many games are unto torrent sites well before
their release date. The worst part of this is that the pirated versions
are in almost all cases SUPERIOR to the DRM infested versions: they
don't contain the invasive, crippling, and destructive DRM that past
games have been ruined by (Bioshock, Mass Effect I, Spore, etc...). I am
NOT ADVOCATING PIRACY. I think you should buy the games you want to
play. I am advocating NOT BUYING games that violate your basic consumer
rights (right to resell your game, right to play your game WHENEVER you
want to without restrictions). If a game limits those rights, I say skip
it entirely. Because UBI SOFT are morons doesn't give anyone the right
to steal. As your Mom (or at least mine) used to say: two wrongs don't
make a right!
I am not opposed to simple DRM schemes (disk check,
or even Steam which has established very good rapport gamers by being
both consistent, fair, and show a long track record of stability). I am
totally opposed to anything that PREVENTS ME FROM PLAYING THE GAME that I
paid money for. I don't want to see this standardized (and I don't
think it will be) and so it's time to take action NOW and refuse to buy
this garbage.
The bottom line is DRM is not and has never been
about preventing piracy. It's about CONTROL. Control over you and how
you are able to play the very game you paid your money for. It's about
wrenching ownership away from the consumer and replacing it with
something much lesser: rental \ leasing. Don't let them do that to you.
Final
Thoughts:
UBI SOFT and those like them have got to be taught a
lesson. The only way to get heard by these huge companies is by hitting
them where it hurts: their pocketbook. Refuse to buy this game or games
like it that infringe on your rights. Tell your friends not to buy it.
Write reviews that inform people about the risks of doing so. That's how
you get things to change. To the inevitable trolls who will tell me
that DRM should just be 'given in to,' I'd like to point out that
currently game makers are MOVING AWAY from DRM schemes. The reason is
because of the backlash against pointless restrictions by those like
myself who are unwilling to sit around and watch PC gaming be ruined by
greedy scumbags. It's because of grassroots action (Spore for example)
that the tide has turned and that DRM is now much less common than it
was a year ago. Top shelf games are being released DRM free. You know
what? I've bought all of them and recommend you do the same. Let's all
give our money to the makers of games that RESPECT us--after all, WE ARE
THE CUSTOMERS. Enough said.
Overzealous
DRM
This game is abusive to
consumer rights. You need a continuous connection to Ubisoft's servers
while playing. If the connection breaks, the game stops. And Ubisoft is
already having trouble keeping their server online.
The pirates
cracked this game within 24 hours, so the DRM isn't effective at
stopping the pirates. And it's also not effective at allowing paying
customers to play, so the DRM fails in every respect. It just ruins the
game. If you value your rights as a consumer, don't buy this game.
No Internet? No game!
Though it doesn't say
anywhere in the description, you *NEED* an internet connection to play
the game. Yes, you need to be connected to an Ubisoft server *at all
times* in order to be able to play. No playing out in the backyard, or
on the beach, or while waiting for your bus... Without internet, no
game!
And so far the Ubisoft servers have done nothing but crash, be
unavailable, break off your game-play, lose your saves and so on.
Officially, it's all because of attacks on the servers... yeah, right.
And irate customers who are trying to vent their frustration on the
Ubisoft forums are having their posts deleted.
I'm paying for an
*offline* game, not for an online one (I have enough of those). I sent
mine back.
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