It's Heavly Raining Bloddy Creeds
03.2.10 Everyone out there with a Twitter account and access to the Internet has been talking about Heavy Rain since it came out. Well, screw you guys. I haven't played it yet and I don't know when I will because I have to rely on Gamefly. But, if anyone would like to send me the game I will whore myself out on the podcast and say anything that you want me to, Anything. Now that's out of the way I can get right into the post without any more Heavy Rain talk.
Anyway I have just Beaten Assassins Creed 2 and I wanted to talk a little about this game that I had no intentions to play so much. At first I had only added it to my Game Q because I figured it deserved the benefit of the doubt that it would be an improvement over the first one. With that being said I forgot all about this game being on my Q until it came in the mail. I would have played it right away except my raging erection for Mass Effect 2 stood in the way.
I forgot all about the game for a while because I was lost in the amazingness of ME2. It wasn't until I hit a wall in Mass Effect where I had to mine planets that I noticed AC2 lying on my table. I popped the disk in and 3 hours later I got a call asking where I was. I couldn't believe how long I had played that game while thinking I still had time left. Right then I knew I was going to have to beat ME2 before I came back to AC2, otherwise I knew Mass Effect was going to become a resident of my pile of shame.
After I had finished Mass Effect 2 (and messing around with it) I grabbed AC2 and set a timer so I would know how long to play. When I got back into the game I found the plot to be easy to understand, but the coinciding plot not so much. (It wasn't until I found all the videos that I had put it all together) the gameplay was nice as well. My only gripe with the whole game was the free running. Like Alex it was probably because the areas were not a grid like in the first one. Even though I was annoyed with the bugs that made Ezio jump far right when I told him to go strait, the checkpoints were often enough to ease the pain.
I can wait to see what they do with the next game. They took an average game, fixed it, and turned it into pure gold. The only other thing that I can say is I want Heavy Rain right now...

