Jeremiah writes, "When Assassin’s Creed II came out for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 late last year, its award-winning tale of political intrigue and arcane secrets kept me up deep into the night for several weeks. When I learned that Ubisoft had created Assassin’s Creed: Project Legacy for Facebook in preparation for an upcoming sequel for consoles, I expected that my days would be similarly sucked away. So far, however, all I see is a clever clone of well-known Facebook games equipped with a few intriguing perks."
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.
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."
