Recently, Ubisoft invited us over to their San Francisco warren to check out Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines. I wasn’t really sure how they were planning on jamming Assassin’s Creed’s exploration, climbing, and free-running into a PSP, but I’ve got to say, they’ve done an excellent job (don’t take my word for it, IGN agrees).
In a theme we’ll be seeing a lot of this year, developer Griptonite Games didn’t produce a watered-down side-scroller and slap the Assassin’s Creed name on it – this is a true follow-up to the original, only portable.
The story picks right up where the first one let off, putting you back in the familiar boots and blades of Altair. How do the controls translate to the PSP? What tweaks have been made to the formula? Has Altair stolen any cool new moves from Ezio (the protagonist of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II)? Producer Frederic Lefrancois and Senior Producer Dan McAuliffe answer these questions – with the added bonus of a bunch of brand new video.
Good thing I already have this pre-ordered… along with about 6 more psp games, and just got 2 psp games this last week with Disgaea 2 and FF:D , both incredible! I can’t wait for this game. I love AC1 , people moan about it, but I thought it was a fun game that was awe inspiring. Sure there was some repetition, but this game, I can tell fixes that. Look at the boss fight with the guy with the morning star, you don’t see anything like that fight on AC1.. I can’t wait, when is release date?
I’ve been playing FF7 on my PSP the last few months on and off, I love my PSP but there haven’t been any real PSP games that I wanted to play since last year. This love that SONY and developers are pouring out on the PSP is amazing, I love the system and it’s finally getting the support it deserves. I’ll be buying this for sure.
The DS Assassin’s Creed featured 2D graphics, IIRC.
In a theme we’ll be seeing a lot of this year, developer Griptonite Games didn’t produce a watered-down side-scroller and slap the Assassin’s Creed name on it – this is a true follow-up to the original, only portable.
That part right there.
Looks good, don’t have a psp but looking forward to AC2. Really like all the PSblog interviews and game updates, nice job jeff.
You have a problem with that Appo? I sure as hell don’t! There is a large vocal minority of DS fanboys who bash psp games, and ridicule it for having full console sized games , with full console sized graphics. I laugh at these people!!! You’d have to be a pretty pathetic to bash a game becuase it has the same visuals as the console version but with a different story and new elements. I don’t want a watered down AC:B. Hell no,
My psp gets the most use,even more than my ps3. I love being able to play on my lunch hour at work, on the toilet, in bed, on the couch while my girl watches tv, camping, realtives, and even on my hd-tv and it even looks better than the wii, and ps2. The full console game treatment isn’t anything new, and I am glad there is a handheld gaming unit that targets my 30 year old demographic, and it’s not the 4-12 year old babysitting handheld, thankfully. PSP/3-4LIFE!
This should hold me over for a while until birth by sleep comes out later! Whenever THAT is…
Bro I love you!
Should’nt Run at 60 FPS tho? 30 is way to little for me.
@57 it’s a portable system, 30fps on that display is amazing.
the psp’s display isn’t fast enough to really display 60fps properly to begin with (smearing on first-gen and even the newest models).
no portable device today can display these graphics at that resolution, even the iPhone can’t.
the Nintendo DS might be able to display 1 frame per second (lol).
you guys need a better vid played every time i cross my mouse pointer over the vid player it resets…
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