15.12.2007 13:40

My friend "M" drops by this week, for the last time, cause he's moving to another part of the Country. After some smalltalk, I've started up "Assassin's".He was amazed by the Intro. "Wow, that was cool," he goes, "I wanna see some more !" "Sure", I said, "but first, a little touch of the Story !" while I exited the Animus, and walked around as Desmond. His mind was like "????" as he heard about ancestors and synchronisation of remembrance.
Some explanations later I was Altaïr, 2 miles away from the gates of Damascus."Look at this !" M says, pointing at the trees and buildings and the stuff, flying through the air, " it looks so real!" I walked around a bit, then I climbed a horse and start my ride to Damascus. "Give me the Controller," Martin says, " I wanna ride, too!" 30 sec. later he was in a big fight with some guards,("Press R1 and Square when they start to hit you !" I said as they hit him bad ) and finished them all !
Finally we reached Damascus, after lots of "Wows" and "Ooohhhs", and I showed him how to climb stuff. " This is soooo amazing!" M was telling me, " I mean, we saw and did so much stuff until now, and then there is something like this. This is a very mature game !" He said that, while I was climbing a viewpoint, and as I was on top of it and let the camera move around.
"Now, it would be cool, if you had a rope, and slide down to the ground!" M added. I smiled and said " I don't need a rope. I am an Assassin. I JUMP!"
Well, I never saw a jaw dropping, but his eyes were wide open and his mouth was even wider open, as i did "The Leap of Faith".
"How ?....Why ?....Wonder ?" he don't know, what to say ! "Me too wanna jump down !" he finally brought up a complete sentence. "Nah, you first have to know, how move properly on earth !" I answered and showed him the meaning of every button.
( Well, he still don't know what "R1" is!!! ).

He walks around in the streets Damascus, did the "gentle push", LOL/most of the time too early or too late => big pottery party /LOL, hits innocent people instead of going into blend mode or vice versa and having a hard time to climb stuff, ( Press R1, move towards the Object and press X ) but finally, he did his "The Leap of Faith"! " Jäh, daas isch sooo geil!"
"But the main part is tokill 9 bad guys, 60 Templars and as many guards as you can get!" I said, and start to talk about weapons, combat, counters and how to run away and hide. I' ve had a fight with guards, escaped, climbed a roof, jumped from roof to roof. Some french soldiers were joining the others while I was fighting 2 of them on the roof.
"It's like watching a movie !" M says "It's fantastic !" One guard pushed me down the roof, and I landed in a small yard, enclosed by walls, and seconds later the yard was filled by at least 10 soldiers. That was a nice fight, with the throwing knifes.
" wow, you're gonna kill one after another !" M impressed. " My girlfriend wants a Wii but now, I definitely need a PS3 !"
" It's OK to start with a Wii !" I comment, "cause you don't need a HDTV for it, and it's a good way to start with video games.