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Assassin’s Creed - new types of investigations detailed

March 04, 2008 in News comments 12

Ubisoft’s Technical Lead Charles Beauchemin has given out information on what the four new types of investigations that have been added to the PC version of Assassin's Creed are all about.

For those that don't know, in Assassins Creed, before you can assassinate a major target, you have to first investigate. This is usually in the form of interrogations or doing a favor for an informer so that they'll give you information. The PC version is said to contain more investigations than the PS3/360 versions.

The biggest flaw Assassin’s Creed had was that even though the game world was magnificently realized, there wasn’t much to do in it except the same things over and over again. And after being forced to it nine times, this mechanic had outstayed its welcome for far too long. But as announced last month, Ubisoft plans to remedy the situation in the upcoming PC version, set for an early April release, by adding to the amount of total investigations that lead up to each assassination.
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  • 0
    Donnelly Mar 4, 08
    The investigations in Assassins Creed got tiresome.

    With any luck the new investigations will make it a bit less repetitive.
  • 0
    Red 9 Mar 4, 08
    Might they release these extra investigations as console addons? Eh, might be too much work.
    • 0
      X_MANBEARPIG_X Mar 5, 08
      And for gamers who've already played it through, there's not much incentive to play it through again just to play the new investigations - which'll still probably be the most boring part of the game.
  • 0
    Blackfalcon Mar 5, 08
    How did they not forsee that only having a few investigation types would get repetitive? Well, at least they have realised it and are fixing the problem. =)
  • 1
    iLLmatic Mar 5, 08
    Oh look, even more pointless and redundant investigations. Have fun PC gamers.
    • 1
      VeGiTAX2 Mar 5, 08
      Given that they don't need to dump $349 or $399 into a console to play the game I'm sure they probably will have some extent of fun with it. Although from what I hear the pirates are already having a ball because it's been leaked into the mainstream.
      • 0
        Seeker X Mar 6, 08
        Just make sure you get yourself a controller though, cuz AC looks like it will be hell on the keyboard as it is.
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    auctoria Mar 5, 08
    Would have been nice if it was on the console one though.
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    Stitch Mar 5, 08
    Hmmm, I wonder what these new types of Investigations could be?
    Still, I liked the current ones, repetitive or not.
    But I sure hate the ones some informers had, like collecting flags in an amount of time, or stealth killing people in some amount of time, ridiculous, why do we have to hurry for him?
    When you fail it, he's there again waiting for you anyway.
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    Oceanic Sun Mar 5, 08
    Too bad it's not going to be a console version. The investigations got way too repetitive in Assassin's Creed DS, and for the PS3.
  • 1
    Deathman48 Mar 6, 08
    Yeah, even though I have the game I was pretty much put off playing it much by how repetitive it got despite its good reviews, and I've played Dynasty Warriors so I know all about repetitive.
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    devil link Mar 6, 08
    PC versions of Console games = 50x Longer lol.

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