{"id":688,"date":"2009-12-09T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2011-01-12T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T05:12:58","slug":"assassins-creed-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/assassins-creed-2-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed 2 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5082\/5351312566_ca1703ce60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-689\" title=\"assassins_creed_2_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5082\/5351312566_ca1703ce60.jpg\" alt=\"assassins_creed_2_logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter some discussion on whether or not I should play Assassin&#8217;s Creed before playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00267RVX4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jighcsranrev-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00267RVX4\"><strong>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/strong><\/a> I decided to just go ahead and play the sequel and skip the first one.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve finished the game and have 48 out of 50 of the achievements now. My save game is right at 30 hours. Since I never played the original I can&#8217;t compare the two, but I did really enjoy the game. There are a few cases where the controls and camera are not quite perfect, but they were never so frustrating I thought about not finishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2473946\/assassins_creed_2_xbox_360_review.html?singlepage=true&amp;cat=19\"><strong>You can check out my full review here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some discussion on whether or not I should play Assassin&#8217;s Creed before playing Assassin&#8217;s Creed II I decided to just go ahead and play the sequel and skip the first one.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve finished the game and have 48 out of 50 of the achievements now. My save game is right at 30 hours. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,7,5],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-assassins-creed-2","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}