If you made Assassin's Creed II this year, it was a good year - even if you had to trim the game, even if things didn't click until August, even if, for five minutes, you had to suppress your accent.
Patrice Desilets, creative director of Assassin's Creed II at Ubisoft Montreal, believes that "2009 was my best year ever," he told Kotaku in an interview recently.
Desilets and a team of more than 200 developers made a hit, a critically acclaimed game. That was just part of Desilets' year. He "learned to be dad," he said. He learned to deal with a two-year-old daughter "who could answer me back." He bought a house and renovated it. "It was a big beautiful year for me."
GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."
This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).
GF365: "Most games are not perfect and that may be because of a character or an enemy. Here are 10 mediocre bosses in great games."
The Pursuer from Dark Spuls 2 was great, I think the author just sucks at games.