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I mentioned in my Assassin’s Creed II review that 2 bits of DLC were going to be published by Ubisoft. Well, Battle of Forli (the first DLC) turned up last month to a fairly muted reception. Too easy, too short and therefore too expensive. Here’s hoping that the Bonfire of the Vanities DLC fairs a bit better.
Ubisoft’s Christophe Grandjean has posted 2 pictures taken from the latest Bonfire of the Vanities DLC via his twitter account. Take a look:
Interestingly, the action forms part of memory 13 in which Ezio gains a new move – spring jump – which isn’t available in the rest of the game. I guessing Ubisoft have come up with some suitably clever way of making Ezio “forget”" this new move before the end of the memory sequence. Mmmm, decapitation, head trauma, excessive exposure to lolcats maybe?
Update 18th Feb 2010: This DLC is now available in 2 flavours. For 360 MS points you can get the new memory sequence missions. But for 560 MS points you get 3 secret Templar lairs to explore which were includes in the black edition of Assassin’s Creed.
Assassin’s Creed II – Bonfire of the Vanities DLC is out now on Xbox 360 and PS3.
AC2 was all about flashy looks… but it tried too hard to be a Venetian Fable, and didn’t try hard enough to be a Venetian Assassin’s Creed. The characters were mysogenistic/racist/both cliches, the cut scene dialogue was drivel (literally meaningless drivel in places), the in-game-pedia combined cheap wiki cut n pastes with smug arsehole attitude, and the side missions tended towards timed runs without the timed. Someone explain the point of the coach race? srsly?
Boy I hated this game. More so because the first game was so beautiful, and beautifully scripted. This just looked and sounded like some 12 year old’s e-number overdose wet-dream version of the original. Shocking.
/hating
LOL. You’re quite right on some of that, Dan. There is an awful lot of smug arsehole going on and I absolutely hated the “time” trials parts as well. The most annoying thing for me was that once you got into a time trial there was no way out without winning. I’m only about a third of the way through because I got blocked by a race across rooftops that I didn’t even intend to enter. Put me off the game for a long time. The coach race was pretty random too, but since I did it with only a couple of attempts and am appalling at any driving games, I assumed it must have been easy for everyone.
Still, the fact that you’re no longer trapped in a small room while a madman vomits plot exposition all over you is an amazing improvement over the first in my book ;)