TheSixthAxis looks at Ubisoft's Facebook application, Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy. The article is more of an overview as opposed to a review of any form:
"I’ve been using Facebook for the past two or three years now, logging around a couple of hours a day through both PC and mobile. In all this time I had only played two or maybe three of the game applications available, with Farmville being one of them (if a ten minute session counts) before I started plugging myself into Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy.’ It’s not your average social gaming experience; in fact it’s very hard to classify Legacy as a game at all despite the mechanics it employs. Launching Project Legacy is as simple as logging into Facebook and then clicking on the application; you still get notifications and can chat with your mates while playing."
In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Bitmob's Dan Hsu, Brett Bates, Demian Linn, and Rus McLaughlin mull over the topic of alternative gaming platforms.
The crew discusses GameStop's Flash-based website Kongregate, casual play on Facebook, iPhone apps, and their favorite non-digital games.
In this week's Mobcast, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Peter Galvin joins Bitmob's Dan Hsu, Demian Linn, and Brett Bates. The group discusses the 3DS, the future of game-dedicated portable devices, the biggest industy-wide shifts of 2010, possible trends for 2011, and moments in games that left them feeling embarrassed or foolish.
VGW: For those of you who play Project Legacy religiously like this humble writer, you'll know Ubisoft has been promising a special holiday surprise for the last few weeks. Today that gift has been given. So what's so newsworthy about that?
There has been a lot of speculation on where/when the upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 will be set. Perhaps the newest set to Ubisoft’s interconnecting Facebook game, Project Legacy, is a major clue.
Who ISN'T these days? Hell, if Dynasty Warriors can keep on truckin, I guess anyone else deserves to try.
Not really....
Assassin's creed brotherhood kinda seems like a potential attempt at "milking the series" but it was a great game and a really fun original MP came with it too.
But just because its the 3rd in the numbered games, doesnt mean its milking at all.
Would you say Mass Effect is getting Milked cause its on Mass Effect 3? No. Cause they are trying to tell a story that cant fit into 1 game just like Assassins Creed.
Look at Killzone series, they made 3 games AND a PSP game, are they milking it? No.
I fully agree, good comparisons as well. Seeing as how the first AC and ME came out the same day if memory serves me correctly.
"They are starting to milk the series"
As long as it's quality, it's no problem.
@BlmThug, if you actually played the games, you'd know the story is yet to be complete.
COD on the other hand...
I want an American Revolution 1700s setting.
As far as I know, there has never been a game in that setting, or even the Civil War would be original.
I want Paul Revere and muskets!
Do it Ubisoft.
Please not another WW1 or 2 game. Ugh...
For some reason, I feel the final AC game will be set in a dystopian wasteland destroyed by solar flare and the chaos that erupted afterward.
I think it would be so cool if the next Assassin's Creed was set in the age of pirates. You could set out to sea, going to a far land to assassinate someone. You could also be a captain of your own ship full of trainee assassins.
Now I actually want that. But it'll never happen. :(
