Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - The Da Vinci Disappearance

 Well, this has got me very excited. AC Brotherhood was possibly the best game of last year, and any new DLC is to be welcomed in HiEx Towers!

Ubisoft announced today the release of the new downloadable content (DLC) for Assassin’s Creed^®Brotherhood for the Xbox 360^® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation^®3 computer entertainment system. The new DLC, entitled “The Da Vinci Disappearance”, will be available for download at beginning of March 2011 on XBOX LIVE^® and on the PlayStation^®Network. The DLC will be made available for 800 Microsoft points.

The Da Vinci Disappearance will include both single-player and multiplayer content for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. After the fall of the Borgias in Rome, Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by the Hermeticists, an underground cult dedicated to transforming mankind. Ezio will embark on a relentless quest to recover stolen paintings in order to find Leo before it is too late, discovering two new locations and two new gameplay features along the way.

The multiplayer addition is the biggest expansion to the award-winning multiplayer yet, including one new map, four new characters and two new game modes. The new multiplayer map, Alhambra, is a lush environment set in Spain’s Albaicin of Granada and provides multileveled indoor and outdoor areas perfect for predators to lurk in the dense crowd for unsuspecting targets.  The four new characters will undoubtedly be a huge hit with Assassin’s Creed fans, consisting of the Dama Rossa, the Knight, the Marquis and the Pariah. The two new gameplay modes, Escort and Assassinate, will provide a whole new gameplay experience for Brotherhood players.  In Escort mode, two teams of four players compete in this team-based mode where each team must protect their VIP target or assassinate the other team’s VIP. In Assassinate mode, six to eight players are pitted against each other deathmatch style in one ten minute round. 

For updates on Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, please visit the game’s official Web site at www.assassinscreed.com, via Twitter @AssassinsCreed and Facebook at facebook.com/assassinscreed.

Assassin's Creed Project Legacy is available on Facebook at: http://apps.facebook.com/projectlegacy

Far Cry Review

I'm not really writing this as a review of the game, there are tons to read from since the game has been out, but to help you out in making sure you get the right copy of the game. This is the DVD version of Far Cry, and it may or may not install on your 64-bit operating system. I have Vista 64-bit, and can run newer, as well as older games on it, older than Far Cry, but had a problem with this one. When I went to install the game, everything looked like it was going good, but then an error came saying install 32bit.exe, or 64bit.exe. Okay, so I open up the game files and look for 64bit.exe. But guess what, it's not there. 32bit.exe is however, but that doesn't work. Puzzled I went to the internet. After spending over two hours looking for a solution, and finding this was a widespread problem, it seems from the numerous forum posts I read that Crytek, the developer, or Ubisoft, the publisher, forgot to include the 64-bit installation on the disk. That is why it wouldn't work.

Then I found out another interesting bit of info. There have been at least three versions of Far Cry released on the PC. The original boxed five cd version, a re-release five cd jewel case version, and this dvd version. Well, It seems the original release,the re-release and dvd versions have different setup files. See in the original version, the install was simply called setup.exe, and the re-release, and dvd has the setup32-bit.exe version on them. The versions that have setup32-bit.exe on them are what is causing problems for people with 64-bit operating systems, and from what I read there is no solution for it. BUT, I read the original boxed five cd version would work. So after feeling bummed out about my dvd version not working, I decided to try and find an original release. I found one for dirt cheap on the internet. Before installing I checked to see if it had the setup.exe file on it, and it did and I went to install it. Well it worked beautifully. It installed without a hitch. I had to download a patch afterwards so the graphics would run right and after that the game ran great, with no crashes, freeze ups, or glitches anywhere. It was awesome.

If you are wanting to get this game, and you have a 64bit operating system, you may want to try and find an original release, and not the re-release, or this dvd version.

I hope this was helpful, and I hope I didn't make it confusing. The game is awesome, and was worth the trouble I went through to play it. It has some flaws, all games do, but the pros outweight the cons, and it is a fantastic experience. Thanks for reading this and I hope it helps.



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