I seriously don't know why I am so hooked at Assassin's Creed. I'm usually very bored about games where you do stuff over and over, and there's nothing to really push you to advance, except your thirst for blood. But aside from others I always found myself assassinating each target differentely. Either staying next to a column, 'praying', and waiting for my target to pass before giving him a nice backstab, or just jumping off the roof like a mad man and stabbing the target in the neck, or it might even be pushing a dead archer out onto the street to lure the guards away from the target, and then just enjoy massacring the target. The investigations are preety annoying thought. I also loved how they changed the Splinter Cell 'shadowy' assasinations to more of a 'sneaky stay out of view and plan' approach. They should've nerfed the throwing daggers thought, the one hit kill is too easy to kill archers.
Bioshock is awesome, it keeps you alive with AI, graphics, and the plot, but the enemy models and sounds started to get repetitive after a while. Not to mention that the big daddies are a bit too hard...
Halo 3 has awesome multiplayer, but the single player is seriously a piece of crap. It's like Halo 2 SP with a new plot.
1. BIOSHOCK - very engaging, amazing atmosphere and sound design (could have a lengthier and more epic ending though)
2. Mass Effect - awesome story, a lot of stuff to do
3. Halo 3 - i dont even need to explain why this game is aweosme
Id have to give it to the Orange box. Not only for the seamless transfer, but the quality of everything offered on the disc. They could have easily sold half life 2, and the expansion packs as separate products for $50 each. Not only did they give us all three of the half life games in one package. They also included tow other games which are impressive and entertaining. I felt as though i was being rewarded as a gamer with the orange box.
Id give Bioshock second place for being such an artistically original game with fluent engaging gameplay.
number 3 goes to mass effect and then call of duty 4
__________________ "If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything" -Twain
(sig by Scythe)
Ill give NHL props for surpassing 2k sports in game play quality for the first time, but it still isnt all that. 2k sports really dropped the ball with NHL this year
__________________ "If you tell the truth, you never have to remember anything" -Twain
(sig by Scythe)
Well damn. There were a LOT of excellent titles this year...
1. Portal - Seriously. Nothing else this year gave me the pure, unadulterated fun that Portal did. The only thing to be said against it is that there wasn't more.
2. Super Mario Galaxy - Is there any more that needs to be said?
3. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - First FPS on Wii to get it right, along with beautiful scenery, a good storyline, excellent voices, and fun extras.
4. Assassin's Creed - Excellent game with excellent gameplay and excellent ideas, marred only slightly by repetitiveness. Currently my only 360 game, and quite worth it.
5. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings - probably the best DS game this year. Very fun combination of Tactics and XII play.
Honorable Mention: Call of Duty 4, BioShock - The first FPS games I have well and truly loved to play. CoD4 is slightly higher, as BioShock is fun once, while CoD4 is fun over and over again.
__________________
WARNING: The above post may contain sarcasm and/or sophisticated satire. Any psychological damage sustained is purely your fault.
I think COD4 has a severe problem with the way the AI encounters play out.
I really hate the infinite respawning that occurs during the game, it seems like such a dated method that really shouldn't be in a game these days. Kill a guy, he pops back up in the same spot over and over until you arbitrarily run to a certain spot, at which point the enemies magically despawn.
Regardless, it was a great game, coulda been so much better with a more advanced method of AI conflict, though.
KMC Community Forums
Dec 5th, 2007 11:40 PM
