{"id":43284,"date":"2009-11-17T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=124961"},"modified":"2009-11-17T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:30:59","slug":"another-big-day-in-gaming-assassin%e2%80%99s-creed-ii-left-4-dead-2-tony-hawk-part-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43284","title":{"rendered":"Another big day in gaming: Assassin\u2019s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2 &amp; Tony Hawk Part 900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ac22.jpg\" alt=\"ac22\" title=\"ac22\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124964\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s another big day in gaming, friends. (You&#8217;ll notice that we&#8217;re practically a game blog now. I blame the publishers for releasing the biggest games of the year within a few days of each other.) Ubisoft&#8217;s <i>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/i>, Valve&#8217;s <i>Left 4 Dead 2<\/i>, and Activision&#8217;s <i>Tony Hawk Ride<\/i> come out today (I assume the <i>Tony Hawk<\/i> franchise is still around because it&#8217;s still popular. I haven&#8217;t played one since <i>Tony Hawk 4<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no <i>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/i> reviews yet, which I&#8217;m interpreting as Ubisoft either being control freaks, or that that game isn&#8217;t exactly a 10 out of 10. Hopefully the game is halfway as good as that Justice trailer:<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\" class=\"center\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D15DxFRD9uA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D15DxFRD9uA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I read one <i>Left 4 Dead 2<\/i> review (I&#8217;ll do my usual round-up later in the day), <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/left-4-dead-2-review\">from Eurogamer<\/A>, and it ends with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nWhereas once we treated Left 4 Dead as a stopgap between Half-Lifes, this is no longer a weird little side project with modest expectations, and Valve is confident enough to play around with it, safe in the knowledge that you can trust your players. Left 4 Dead proved it. And whereas that game had a personality, this one is overflowing with it.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering the PC version is the \u201creal\u201d version, and my iMac can <i>only just<\/i> run <i>Call of Duty 1<\/i> and <i>Medal of Honor: Allied Assault<\/i> (which I&#8217;ve been playing for the past week), and that I never played the first game, and that I&#8217;m really not the biggest fan of online multi-player games, well, what more do I have to say?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/modern-warfare-2\/\">Too<\/A>. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/new-super-mario-bros-wii\/\">Many<\/A>. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/17\/gift-guide-2009-gaming-consoles\/\">Games<\/A>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/XA9n1hsV77Aj9lqIN8KOyltLrH0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/XA9n1hsV77Aj9lqIN8KOyltLrH0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/XA9n1hsV77Aj9lqIN8KOyltLrH0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/XA9n1hsV77Aj9lqIN8KOyltLrH0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=K4iYA5j8Du8:C5MBSFZEhBY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=K4iYA5j8Du8:C5MBSFZEhBY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=K4iYA5j8Du8:C5MBSFZEhBY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=K4iYA5j8Du8:C5MBSFZEhBY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=K4iYA5j8Du8:C5MBSFZEhBY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s another big day in gaming, friends. (You&#8217;ll notice that we&#8217;re practically a game blog now. I blame the publishers for releasing the biggest games of the year within a few days of each other.) Ubisoft&#8217;s Assassin&#8217;s Creed II, Valve&#8217;s Left 4 Dead 2, and Activision&#8217;s Tony Hawk Ride come out today (I assume the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}