20 Something Gamer

Wow, I'm late on this one. I recieved the game on the day it was released. And I just started playing, not thinking twice about writing. Anyway, I've finished the main story now, so I've peeled myself off of my chair, let my eyes rest, and now I'm here to tell you about it.

The game is AWESOME. It's defiantly better than AC1, and they set the bar pretty high. The free running is more fluid, though the camera can let you down at points, causing you to sail of of a object in some random direction, letting you get more acquainted with the floor, and falling does more damaged than any sword does. Fighting is a lot more vaired due to the many types of weapons, short sword, long sword, axe etc. They also introduce "special" moves such as throwing sand in you opponents face, these require a small amount of charging time, and will fail if attacked even if you are halfway through actually performing the attack.

AC2 drops you right into action right from the start, with Desmond being broken out of Abstergo by Lucy, once you've escaped your taken to a new hideout where you will find the Animus 2.0. From here on you are the suave Ezio. You'll spend alot more time in the Animus this time round, only coming out twice the whole game.

For the first 20-30 min of the game, you run around the city not knowing of the fate that awaits Ezio. They start you off with basic hand to hand combat and free running, nothing to hard. You aren't even in you assassins cloths yet.
After this portion of the game you begin your journey as an assassin, which opens up the games stores for you, allowing you to purchase dyes for your outfit (I'm currently sporting a red outfit), larger pouches for your supplies, new weapons and new armour, amongst other things.
Speaking of shops, shops need money, therefore you need money, and you can get money in a few ways, completeing jobs, stealing from people, looting bodies, finding chests, and by far the easiest way, gaining income from your town.
Thats right, you own your own town, and using the money you've earned, you upgrage the town, causing more money to come in to spend on better instruments of death.

Great game a must have.

So the most anticipated first person shooter of the year, has been out for a week. and I really couldn't care. This is because I SUCK at FPS's, well, I'm OK if it has a story mode, but I never play then on any difficulty higher than easiest. What I am really bad at is online games, I have never been good at them, and due to the fact that everyone is better, I never live long enough to get any better, my average kills per match is around 4, whereas I get killed at least 15 times a match. Also, there is never any "good" sniping spot, which is where I excel, having some out-of-game experience with them.
Anyway, so you may have guessed that I've given this game a miss, and you'd be right. But my brother picked up a copy the other day, so I'd thought I'd give it a go. And to be honest, the story mode is great, much that we've come to expect from the CoD series. It follows 5 years after the events of Modern Warfare 1, with Soap having been promoted to Captain and the Russians have kicked up a fuss about the death of Imran Zakhaev (the Russian Dude with one arm, 'case you forgot). As before, you play as multiple characters throughout the game, fighting as the USA's Rangers and CIA and Britain's SAS 141 squad. 
The selection of weapons at you disposal is as always massive, with something for everyone's taste. The environments range from Russian tundra, to the slums of Brazil. 
MW2 newest feature is Special Ops, which has 23 short missions for you to complete, ranging from killing waves of enemies, or a racing against the clock on a snowmobile. 
And finally, my least favourite bit of the game, the online mode. New maps, new perks, new attachments for your guns, and the cool new "Callsigns" which allow you to display an banner and an icon whenever you kill, get killed or complete an objective. The banners and icons are preset and you unlock then by completing hidden tasks, such as kill someone as they are cooking a grenade. 
It is a great game, and I recommend it to everyone, but... if you aren't confident at FPS games, stay away from online mode, you'll just get frustrated.