After playing inFAMOUS, Assasin Creed's climbing mechanics are terrible, although I am sure if I hadn't been spoiled by inFAMOUS, I would not have gotten nearly as frustrated
All have their goods and bads. Infamous has a smart get to where the game thinks you want to go but Cole would climb things i didn't want to. AC2 has great fluid animation but there are parts in which you think you could climb but all ezio does is jump off the wall(Same goes for PoP). Uncharted 2 is great all around but it's too limited/linear to compare it to either AC2 or Infamous. I'd have to go with Uncharted 2...it's fluid, drake jumps/climbs where you want him to, and most of the time if you die while climbing it's your fault not a window in the game that you can't grab on to(AC2).
Hmm, tough choice. I like how AC2's climbing is in that it's very fluid and can be rather satisfying, but I used to get to frustrated when my jumps did not go where I had intended them to be. Not sure if that is the game's fault or my own.
Uncharted 2 has pretty good climbing segments, but like someone else said, they are rather linear, and generally, there is only one way to climb.
I say InFamous because Cole automatically grabbed the ledges and what not. Its kind of cheap in a way, but with such a fail safe in place it didn't suffer from cheap falls too often which is soooo frustrating. The first Uncharted is a good example of what im talking about. Some of its platforming sequences were trial and error. Uncharted 2 got it just right, though. Actually Uncharted 2 has the perfect balance between cheap and frustrating. InFamous was still more fun though because there was a lot more climbing to do and you could climb on pretty much anything.
AC climbing looks pretty on screen but is plain horrible in terms of controle. And why does Ezio/Altair randomly jump off walls when your telling him to go up? *sigh* INfamous was definatly the most fun for clmbing and the animations were great too. Plus, it felt really good when you got his speed up and started darting/gliding/skidding from rooftop to rooftop
I voted Uncharted, but climbing the trash-tower in InFamous was the most epic, and exciting climb in a game since trying to scale the temple in Shadow of the Colossus.
Don't know if it was the best, but AC2 was certainly the most fun to do. I spent a lot of time climbing in that game. Finding all the viewpoints was fun.
Climbing the trash-tower in InFamous was the most epic, and exciting climb in a game since trying to scale the temple in Shadow of the Colossus.
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I totally agree! That was pretty freakin' awesome. That climb had an extremely vertical feeling to it. I'm scared of heights and was actually getting a bit uneasy on that one. What was almost just as cool was jumping off and gliding to the earth below. Man, that was fun.
inFAMOUS. You weren't limited like in Uncharted 2 and you were much more fast and agile than in AC2. Plus if you goofed up you could just either hover to another ledge or smash into the ground.
U2 isn't really in the same league as inFamous and AC2 for climbing, there's only very specific areas for climbing.
AC2 climbing was very fluid but it was a bit slow and awkward at times.
For me inFamous's climbing is the best because it's fast, has a good flow, especially combined with the gliding and grinding but the main reason I think it's better is it requires you to be more active with the controls whereas with AC2 you mostly just hold down the buttons.
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