All Xbox Live Gold members can download Assassin’s Creed 2 today for free with their Games With Gold program. While not anywhere near the value Sony gives you with Playstation Plus, a free game is a free game and you could do a lot worse than Assassin’s Creed 2.
Alright Assassin’s Creed. You and I have a checkered history. You were great in the first two games then it became hard to spend as much time with you anymore. You just couldn’t change. Like a lazy lover I kept coming back and expecting to be wowed and left disappointed. Then you put on a shiny new dress and got some plastic surgery and said you were a changed person with AC3 and I was excited once again and dammit if you didn’t do the exact…same…thing to me.
I’m done. That’s it. No more!
Not even you trying to do your best Jack Sparrow and becoming a pirate can sway me. I have seen your naval battles before, but I can’t justify $60 on you.
Sooo what you doing this fall? You free to hang out a bit? I know we’ve had rough times babe, but we can give it a go.
Alright Xbox owners, now there is no excuse for you not to pick up [amazon_link id=”B0050SYK44″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Borderlands 2[/amazon_link] because, for today only, it is $9.99 in the Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale. Our Game of the Year from 2012, [amazon_link id=”B0050SYV70″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Far Cry 3[/amazon_link], is marked down to $19.99. Assassin’s Creed 3 and Max Payne get deep discounts today as well.
Check out the full list of games below including the other titles for sale until July 8th.
One Day Only (July 2nd)
-Borderlands 2- $9.99
-Assassin’s Creed 3- $14.99
-Far Cry 3- $19.99
-Max Payne 3- $9.99
On Sale Until July 8th
-Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway- $4.99
-Far Cry Instincts: Predator- $4.99
-Crysis- $4.99
-Command & Conquer: Red Alert- $4.99
-WWE 13- $14.99
-Prey- $2.99
-Mass Effect- $4.99
-Bulletstorm- $4.99
-Perfect Dark Zero- $2.99
-Dragon Age: Origin- $4.99
-Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga- $4.99
It looks like the Assassin’s Creed movie is going to be a really real thing. 20th Century Fox has set a May 22, 2015 release date for the film which has X-Men: First Class star and all-around badass Michael Fassbender starring in and producing with a script from Michael Lesslie.
Let’s hope that Ubisoft can make an Assassin’s Creed game that I will want to finish all the way through before then.
I am going ahead and giving warning that everytime someone dies in this movie I am going to yell in the theater “Fassassinated!!”.
This is going to be exhausting and some of you already know how exhausting I already consider Assassin’s Creed.
Not content with one special edition worldwide or anything like that, Ubisoft has announced five special collector’s editions. Three will be available overseas in the UK and Ireland so if you live there congrats!! Here in North America we will be getting the Black Chest Edition and is available exclusively on Ubisoft’s UPlay Network and features a diarama of Capt. Edward Kenway, steelbook case, soundtrack, new in-game content and much more as you can see above.
The second collector’s set available here is the Black Island Pack which comes with mostly in-game stuff like a new treasure hunting quest, new pistols and multiplayer items. Try and contain your excitement.
No pricing was given for the collector’s editions. Assassin’s Creed IV releases on October 29th.
Check out the new gameplay trailer below and before you get all goosebumpy and ready to pre-order, just remember how great the ads were for AC3. The new trailer does appear to try ans take the series in new directions, so let’s hope Ubisoft can deliver on the potential.
PETA has spoken out against the act of whaling in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. In an interview with Polygon, Matt Bruce, PETA’s Bullsh** Job Title International Grassroots Campaigns spokesperson said this about the virtual portrayal of whaling.
“There are so many creative minds at Ubisoft that are involved with the Assassin’s Creed series, that we find it really disappointing that they feel the need to glorify whaling. PETA encourages video game companies to create games that celebrate animals, not games that promote hurting and killing them.”
He went on to tell what we as gamers will specifically feel when this senseless killing of a fake, virtual creature happens.
“In Assassin’s Creed 4, you get ahead by killing. Joe Shmoe who plays this game in his mother’s basement in the safety and comfort of his home will feel a sense of accomplishment by killing this whale.”
If you want to read Ubisoft’s response to PETA just hit the link above for the entire article. Here is mine.
Will I feel a sense of accomplishment for killing a whale in Assassin’s Creed IV? You’re damn right I will! If there was an achievement for killing 30 whales and selling their fat to Indians for a bunch of blankets and native girls to have on my pirate ship, then get ready, cause I am about to get 30 more points added to my gamerscore!!!
Or better yet I want to be able to hang their blubbery heads on the front of my ship as an announcement to all the other virtual whales swimming in the virtual sea of this VIDEO GAME that I am a pirate not to be f&!%* with.
LET’S KILL SOME WHALES!!!!! (fake ones I mean)
Ahoy! Avast! And get ready for almost a year of pirate jokes until Assassin’s Creed IV comes out. I know, I know, I will grow just as tired of thinking of them and writing them as you will of reading them, but what are we gonna do? This is the hand that Ubisoft has dealt us and we might as well run with it.
Back to subject.
Hey! Have you been wondering just where in the heck you can find that pesky trailer for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag at?! Why it is just below and it features that scourge of the seven seas Blackbeard, though sadly, not the Ian McShane version.
God, I miss Deadwood.
He is preaching up all the mateys at the local pub about the legend of Edward Kenway, a legendary pirate who would go on to father a boring British guy and grandfather an even more boring Indian grandson.
Those Kenway’s sure do like sampling the world’s culture’s, don’t they?
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flack releases on October 29th for every system imaginable. I am pretty sure there is a 3DO version also.
The worst kept video game secret of the past few weeks is official. Assassin’s Creed’s next installment will indeed have a pirate theme and apparently try to see how many weapons one man can have on his person at one time.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is the next chapter in the AC saga and will star Edward Kenway, who is father of Haytham and dear old grandad to Connor from Assassin’s Creed 3. It now seems likely the naval battles from AC3 were a testing ground to see if a whole game could be set around them. Let’s just hope you don’t spend the first six hours of the game as another character that is not on the cover.
As with past Assassin’s Creed installments, it was announced that the Playstation would be receiving extra content totaling about an extra hour of gameplay.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag releases this fall.
Yesterday Halo was the centerpiece of Microsoft’s huge Xbox Live sale and today it is Assassin’s Creed’s turn to take center stage. Assassin’s Creed 1, 2, Brotherhood and Revelations get a big slash in price today to go along with the other games that are taking huge discounts until March 4th.
The Assassin’s Creed games are on sale for today only.
Assassin’s Creed- $9.99
Assassin’s Creed 2- $9.99
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood- $9.99
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations- $14.99
These games are on sale until March 4th:
Dirt 2- $4.99
GRID- $4.99
Dark Messiah- $2.99
Rayman: Raving Rabbids- $2.99
H.A.W.X.- $4.99
Rainbow Six: Vegas- $4.99
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men- $4.99
Call of Juarez- $4.99
Tomb Raider Legend- $4.99
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter- $4.99
Virtua Fighter 5- $4.99
Bioshock- $4.99
El Shaddai- $2.99
The Darkness- $4.99
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2- $4.99
Oops. Seems like Kotaku may have uncovered a bit of spoilery news pertaining to the next game in the Assassin’s Creed series.
A picture they have posted show a promotional poster for Assassin’s Creed IV: Blag Flag which has a pirate themed assassin which matches up with some of the earlier rumors which suggested that theme and would be taking place in the Caribbean. So for those of you that the naval battles were your favorite part of [amazon_link id=”B0050SXFKE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Assassin’s Creed 3[/amazon_link] this will be happy news if this proves to be true.
Now if the guys at Ubisoft were promotional wizards they would combine this game with ads for Black Flag bug spray.