Improved by leaps and bounds over the first one. I was very excited about going to Venice and seeing what they did with it. Jason wanted to see it, too, but unfortunately he had to leave before I decided to leave Forli for Venice.
Oh, hey, I got a mention 
. I'm about to head into Venice for the first time, I can't wait!!!
And curse you, young Michael! I now have a thriftbooks.com account and ordered a book and it's all your fault!
It does follow into the second one, though, which is why I'll have to go back and see what I missed.
The way I always look at it is that we will be set if the industry ever crashes again 
I followed the first AC excitedly through its whole development. I was excited about the setting, the story, being able to do all kinds of exciting stuff. And then came the reality. To be honest, it's not a horrible game, it just had been so built-up to seem so much better than it really was. When you check it out, play one chapter at a time and then go do something else, because all the missions are exactly the same. The second one is what I'd hoped the first one would be, just a later time period.
At least you're only playing catch-up with one system. I was a PC gamer until I got a Genesis in 1993, and then nothing for another 11 years. I'm going to be catching up for the rest of my life!
Mirror's Edge never really interested me, but have fun!
And now I have to try that!
Ooh! You can pet the animals?! Cool! And the jumping off the huge buildings is one of the best part sof the game.
Like I said before, if you can find the first one for cheap, it's worth playing because it's such a beautiful game. Just play it in very small chunks, because the missions are mind-numbingly all the same. The second one had me up until 3 AM this morning.
