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Assassin’s Creed first thoughts
November 14th, 2007
Ubisoft were completely honest when they said the first few minutes would explain everything. I’m not going to say anything but it’s going to be interesting to see if they continue it into further games.
The game looks very impressive and plays very smoothly. Occasionly there’s some slight niggles where the control instructions are a little vague but once you work it out you can easily pull off pretty much any move you want when you need too.
The crowd is very impressive but there’s still room for improvement. I’m not sure if I like how quickly word of your actions spreads through the world. Instead of there being some delay or limit to the effects of your actions every guard instantly knows what’s going on. I don’t know if they tried doing it properly and found that it made the game too easy or whethere it was just something they decided wasn’t worth the effort.
Apart from that, I’m two hours in and so far it’s great. So far so good Ubisoft, so far so good. I’d like to talk about what an interesting idea the secret is but I can’t do that without spoiling it for anyone that hasn’t played the game yet, and since it isn’t officially released until Friday I’ll keep my mouth shut until then.
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Funny thought for the day
January 6th, 2007
Robert X. Cringely has come out with an entry for his 2007 predictions that is both funny, and quite scary…
7) The Sony news is SO bad that it deserves two predictions. I would predict the fall of CEO Howard Stringer again if there were clearly somebody at Sony who wants his job. The business is in such difficulty that Microsoft is discussing internally how to help Sony from going under, since that would create a raft of antitrust problems for Redmond. I am not making this up.
You can read the rest of the predictions, and the results of last years, over on his site.
It’s the last bit that is scary and funny. As crazy as it sounds, you can actaully believe that there are people in Microsoft worried that the PS3 will fail and leave them in a possibly nasty anti-trust situation. Ok, maybe they’ld be able to claim that Nintendo are enough competition, but even the most avid Nintendo has to agree that Nintendo’s past console sales don’t compare to that of the PS2. That isn’t to say, of course, that the Wii wont change all that, as the DS has already proved that Nintendo are more than capable of producting a market leading device.
I still find it strange that one company should have to worry about the stupidity of another. It’s not like Microsoft have tried to make the PS3 fail. If it does, it’ll be a mistake of Sony’s own creation.
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VG Cats does it again :)
December 11th, 2006
If you don’t get the joke, hurry up and complete Gears of War
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My latest software project
November 10th, 2006
It’s nothing to do with XNA I’m afraid, I just haven’t had enough time to sit down and play around yet. Maybe next week.
However, last night I decided to start work on a little project and I’ve got enough of it working that I know it’s possible to complete. I’m hoping to have something stable enough to release before Monday, but we’ll have to see how stuff goes. It should run on XP, Vista, Mac OS and Linux and here’s a little hint
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