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Here is the supposed reason why.
Dear inhabitants of the lands down under, Ubisoft is not keen on sharing their assassin with you. The release of Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed in Australia and New Zealand has been pushed back due to "manufacturing and freight difficulties". You know what this means, right? The South Sea pirates sailed off with their bounty -- copies of Assassin's Creed that were due for Aussie and Kiwi lands!
Still, do not despair, the French Canadian treasure fleet should be sailing into your down-under ports come November 21.
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Source: http://www.actiontrip.com/rei/comments_news.phtml?id=111307_4
 
Its not the only poor review. There's quite a few in the sub 8.5 zone on meta critic, not a good sign.

Still plenty of good reviews as well, but I think i'll be hiring this one before i buy just in case it turns out to be as repetitive as some are saying.

My next couple of weeks are taken up with mass effect anyway...
 

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Im not completely sold on Mass Effect but now Assassins creed is looking somewhat of a disappointment i think i will have to get it.
 
Hmmm I was going to buy it but I am now 50/50... Don't get me wrong, I don't really listen to reviews but I acidentally learnt the big spoiler and I don't really like it AT ALL....

It is funny though... IGN is normally generous as hell with big games... While other reviewers are normally tougher, particularly Gamespot... But this time around, GS gave it 9, which is pretty impressive for a PS3 game over there...
 
blues4flag said:
Pfft, Gamespot is horrible and has been for the last couple of years. Their Fire Emblem review proves the point. :mad:
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I know they are horrible reviewers and terribly bias, it just surprised me to see a PS3 review of all things to score a lot higher on GS then IGN....
 
Maybe it's one of those "we have lots of variation in gameplay" games...but that's only a cover for every mission being the same deal underneath.
 
melbournemartin said:
Maybe it's one of those "we have lots of variation in gameplay" games...but that's only a cover for every mission being the same deal underneath.
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Yeah, thats pretty much it
 
Have you played it? Perhaps the PC delay is a blessing in disguise because either they take the time to improve it or I can truly see that it sucks and not buy it.
 
melbournemartin said:
Have you played it? Perhaps the PC delay is a blessing in disguise because either they take the time to improve it or I can truly see that it sucks and not buy it.
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They cannot really change ANYTHING with games this late in development, especially when they are already released on other consoles.. .The only thing they could change would be bugs but there is no problem really with them in the console versions.... But it depends on what you want.... Story seems 'interesting' to say the least ;).

Gameplay can be interesting, bit repetitive...
 

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melbournemartin said:
Everything looked very cool on the previews but it kind of looks like an ancient style GTA but limited in what it can do.
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Awww it looks great and the small details are amazing. Its not bad because of its graphics or presentation, its just the gameplay and story have a few issues.... With me mostly, and maybe its just me.
 
Penny Arcade said:
I want to talk about Assassins Creed but first I need to get something out of the way. I have a lot to say about the game and I want to talk about some of the bad reviews it's getting but I want to make sure everyone understands I'm not saying this because of the comic we did for them. So I'm going to link you to an old set of news posts about Prince of Persia 2. Feel free to read those and come back if you like.

Now I'm going to tell you how advertising on PA works. Every other game site out there takes ads for whatever game they can get. It doesn't matter if it's a pile of crap, if the publisher pays for the spot IGN or Gamespot or whoever will run the ad. That's fine but that's not how we do it and the news posts you just read are part of the reason why.

We were huge fans of the first Prince of Persia game so when Ubi came to us and wanted to run ads for the second we said yes. We had no idea they were going to completely **** it over. So from then on we started demanding playable copies of games before we'd agree to advertising. No matter how early the build we tell the publishers that unless we can see it played in front of us or play it ourselves we won't run ads for it. Obviously a lot can still go wrong during development but we make the best decisions we can. We do not think of the ads you see on our page as ads. They are recommendations and we try extremely hard to insure that anything we put over there is worth your time. When Prince of Persia 2 came out and we saw that it was crap we said as much on the site. Ads for the game appeared right next to those news posts slamming it. Needless to say Ubi wasn't very happy and Robert got some angry phone calls but our loyalty is to our readers not the people paying the bills. We explained to Ubi that the reason our ads perform better than any other site out there is because our readers trust us and that means we have to admit when something we advertise doesn't turn out as good as we hoped. Obviously they understood because we're still advertising their games but like I said this isn't the way other sites operate. I actually give Ubi a lot of credit for not just telling us to **** off and buying more ads on IGN and Gamespy with the extra money.

I'm telling you all this because I want you to understand that if Assassins Creed actually was a 7.0 game I'd tell you. I also want you to know that when I tell you it's ****ing incredible I'm not bullshitting you because we're running ads for the game.

There are about four or five reviews of the game with scores in the low to mid 7's. I want to cover some of the common complaints these reviewers had in case anyone out there is worried about them.

Many of the reviews say that the ending is bad. Obviously I don't want to give away any spoilers but I will say that the final confrontation was exciting and gratifying. It was an extremely satisfying ending to this chapter of the game. Chapter is the important word here. This is a huge story, probably a trilogy at least. The game does end with a cliff hanger and it certainly sets up the rest of the arc but that's how the first part of any multi part story ends. If Star Wars had ended with Luke jumping into his X-Wing to go take on the Death Star that would be a shitty ****ing ending. It doesn't though, Luke destroys it and then we get hints about what's in store for our heroes. I'm telling you right now Altair destroys his Death Star.

gabe.
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I also can't be 100% positive but I'm guessing that some of these reviewers didn't let the credits role. Again, I don't want to spoil anything but wait for the credits to end. Until reviewers start posting their Gamertags along with the review we'll never really be able to tell how much of a game they played. But I'd be willing to bet some of them are missing the "Visions of the Future" achievement. I'm not gonna say why but If you don't have this achievement you can't say jack shit about the ending.

I think the biggest complaint I saw was that the missions become repetitive and boring. I actually didn't understand this complaint at all until just the other day. I had gotten an early copy of the game just like everyone else in the media but I was just playing it for fun. I'd cracked into it over the weekend and when I got into the office on Monday I started seeing these negative reviews. When I saw the low scores I was actually really upset and I wanted to talk about the game here on the site. I wanted to tell everyone that these guys were full of shit. However, since so many of the complaints were based on the ending I wanted to beat it first so I was sure I wasn't missing anything. I attacked the game again but this time with the goal of beating it as fast as I could. I was determined to get a post up on Tuesday and I was pushing through the game as fast as I could. I went from finding every high perch in a district to only getting the ones I needed to advance the story. I stopped saving every citizen and avoided any unnecessary confrontations. The informer missions that I had really enjoyed before, I now avoided because I knew they took too long to complete. I did the bare minimum of missions to progress the story and anything that "hindered" my progress was frustrating. Monday night after skipping over another combat (something I used to really enjoy) I stopped myself. What the **** was I doing? I wasn't playing the game because I wanted to I was playing it because I had a deadline and I needed to beat it. I stopped immediately and decided I'd write about the game whenever I got around to beating it. I spent another day and a half with it and during that time I hunted for hidden flags and explored the cities again. I came in this morning and finally did beat it but I did it at my own pace and I enjoyed every part of it.

Imagine what an open ended sandbox title must look like to a reviewer especially right now. How many games do they have piling up on their desks? A game like Assassins creed isn't meant to be played under a deadline. You shouldn't be trying to beat it as fast as you can so you can move on to Mass Effect or Mario Galaxy. As soon as I gave myself a deadline all of a sudden I understood all their complaints. It was like a ****ing Escher painting. I had put myself in their shoes and suddenly the landscape flipped and I could see games from their perspective. In the end I wasn't angry at them for their bad reviews. I actually just felt bad for them.

-Gabe out
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Faith restored.
 

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A little gem called Battlefield: Bad Company, looks like it could be even better than COD4! I know that's a huge ask, but it looks possible after i saw the preview.

On the topic of this thread, i still think AC will be a masterpiece!:thumbsu:

Not the best video i've seen, but couldn't find the one i was thinking of.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/17335.html
 
DeadlyAkkuret said:
A little gem called Battlefield: Bad Company, looks like it could be even better than COD4! I know that's a huge ask, but it looks possible after i saw the preview.

On the topic of this thread, i still think AC will be a masterpiece!:thumbsu:

Not the best video i've seen, but couldn't find the one i was thinking of.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/17335.html
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Not coming out for ages so we don't have to worry about that for a while.... No doubt it will be great 9based on previous Battlefields so it is virtually a must buy.
 
TheBrownDog said:
Haven't read this yet but don't Penny Arcade do alot of freelance work for Ubisoft?

Would take this with a grain of salt.

Even so, its just the opinion of two guys.

The general consensus from what I've read is that the controls are broken.
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Read the third paragraph.
 
Release date is being broken around AUS. Should be able to pick it up today. Same with mass effect, which came out yesterday at all EB stores
 
The GOAT said:
which to get? This or COD4
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Call of duty 4 i think you are more likely to get your moneys worth as it has online play. Where i feel that AC will be just another Heavenly sword type of game - great to put on when your friends come around.... wow look at the graphics etc... but it's going to lack variety in gameplay.... i hope that i'm wrong though.
 

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