I have no experience with 3, other than my nephew loved it. It won't be a purchase here in my tiny abode for a long while, as I am under a self-imposed "no game purchases" moritorium due to budgetary reasons and a huge backlog.
Anita did like Faith as a character, she talked a lot about how much she liked Faith and then made her complaint that the game was too hard. The part that got me was her blanket statement that more women would play Mirror's Edge if the control scheme wasn't so hard.
Well-written, Angelo. I have nothing to add and you have a bit of an idea what my take on things is, anyway.
I'm looking at the AC franchise as just a bunch of fun games. I'm not looking for realism in the story, just for fun gameplay and a decent story with characters that I can care about what happens to them.
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Gee, thanks, Julian! Actually, I mean that. I really enjoyed the first chapter, big jump at the end. I think my heart rate may have returned to normal at this point. Looking forward to Chapter 2, but I'll have to wait until it becomes free.
Yuri from Shadowhearts, over the course of the two games he's in, his character goes from being kind of a crude, selfish jerk to being a hero, but without going all goody-two-shoes about it.
Like I said, one of my most memorable visual moments in a game was from the first AC game. If you can find it for wicked cheap, try it out. It's a gorgeous game, and it's worth exploring the environments and climbing the viewpoints. And I really do want to see where the story takes me. But the second one is so much better.
I think I may have gotten through the first two thirds of the game, but it was such a slog to get that far. I do want to finish it some day just for the story, though.
Like I said, I really wanted to like the first one, but it was the same three missions over and over and over again ad nauseum. But it was so very, very pretty!
Oh, I'm having fun with it all right! It has the right mix of elements for me: exploration (and being rewarded for exploring), a good, solid story, fun gameplay that is easily picked up, combat that isn't the main focus of the game, and it's so very, very pretty. Normally, I don't go all ga-ga over graphics in a game, but the AC games are so absolutely gorgeous.
