My absence over the last couple days can be explained mainly by two words. Mario. Kart. That and it being my B-day. 28 years young
I was a MASSIVE fan of the origional (werent we all) and it's great that they've included a bunch of the old tracks from both the SNES version and the N64. Ghost Valley 2? Bowser's castle 3? mmmmmm good times
Assassins Creed: Pretty game- I've just been oooing and ahhhing and hopping about on things. Which is about as deep as the game gets- but its pretty. Some nice smoke and dust effects, soft edges and nice depth of field stuff too. The cities look amazing.
im not in deep enough to completely big it up but it seems engaging enough. The free-running element works great (you can literally hop onto or climb up anything- not limited to linear pre-defined areas). The control system was my only niggle, but once mastered is decent enough. It's more intuitive when mapped to a pad.
I'm still waiting on the main pressie I bought for myself- but it can be explained by this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MutvUfQcmMg
Looks like big big fun. Jumping 7 foot in the air and running at 25mph!
Let's hope I dont injure anything I need to play TF2!! I'm an ex-skater so good at falling over!
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