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been praised for the most.
But does online gaming really work out in the Assassins Universe or is it just excitement for no reason?
The first thing you have to do is "forget" about Ezio and the Order of Assassins for the time being, since the Multiplayer is all about Abstergo and its agents.
That's not too bad because that gives you some entirely new story aspects, even if the story is rather trivial in this case.
The usual features of Assassin's Creed were of course kept:
Killing targets, climbing walls, trying not to be detected.
Those make the game unique and can actually match up to certain first-person shooters.
The controls are very easy to understand and allow "newcomers" to get along quickly.
The characters are creatively designed and for now there is enough variety.
The maps include places all over Italy and require different strategies. Still, there are too little.
Till now there are 6 game modes:
Wanted (and Advanced Wanted) = the player is on his own
Alliance (and Advanced Alliance) = the player acts in a team of 2
Manhunt = the player acts in a team of about 4
Chest Capture = the AC version of Ctf in a team of about 4
All these provide a great amount of fun and fortunately do not get tiring too fast.
You are also supplied with a couple of abilities which make assassinations or escaping easier. By creating many compilations of different abilities the game turns out much more diversified.
The graphics are quite alright but the spawning mistakes that are also present in the singleplayer remain. That doesn't disturb the gameplay though.
And of course there is the fact of transmission, that still seems kind of unfinished.
Sometimes the game just breaks down right in the middle of a session and in other cases it takes ages to even connect to a new session.
Another thing that occurred to me is the good balance of the single- and multiplayer mode. In my case I have finished the singleplayer first and then moved on to play the multiplayer. But there are still a few things left to explore in Rome so I'm switching between playing as Ezio and the Knights Templar. Meaning they are both equally interesting.
All in all I am very pleased with the Multiplayer and I also think that there can't be passed a final judgment yet since Ubisoft is still working on it (adding more characters, maps and the ability to go beyond level 50...I hope).
So yeah, a multiplayer mode in Assassin's Creed works very well and makes it even more special because there's nothing quite like it. All the enthusiasm is justified and if one is not completely averted to the AC series it's really worth checking out.
9/10
