Assassin's Creed II multiplayer, Rayman 2 out now on the iPhone
Two major league games have hit the App Store already this week, one of them for the surprise price of free. Ubisoft has released the multiplayer version of their Assassin's Creed II game on the App Store, and it's available for free for the first 48 hours. The game's a top-down multiplayer game that has you walking around the world of the console version, both targeting other players and being targeted yourself. All the reports say it's definitely worth a try, and if you can catch it before they raise the price back up (sounds like Ubisoft is trying to find a place for their releases), you should.
And as expected, Rayman 2 is also out on the App Store -- it's a port of the 3D Playstation platformer that was actually a Ubisoft property, but as you can see from the trailer above, this one's been ported by Gameloft. As with most iPhone platformers, the game uses virtual controls, but Touch Arcade says they work just fine. The save system is the biggest issue -- your iPhone is not the best platform for playing games for long stretches of time, and any game that kicks you back out to a menu if you happen to step away for a second will cause frustration eventually. Still, it sounds like a solid platformer port, and there are certainly fans of those out there. The game is $6.99 on the App Store right now.
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Two major league games have hit the App Store already this week, one of them for the surprise price of free. Ubisoft has released the...
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I loved Rayman 2 on the PS1. Am tempted to buy the iPhone version, but how well does it fare up to the experience of the original? I mean, the touch-controls must be a bit fiddly, and the aforementioned issues with the device locking, etc...
March 02 2010 at 8:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"Touch Arcade says they work just fine"? Actually they didn't say that: "[..] cumbersome controls that make even the simple tutorial levels much more difficult than they should be."
So they said the opposite, although not everyone agrees with TA.
Pretty sure the PlayStation version of Rayman 2 was just a port of the (much better) PC version.
March 02 2010 at 1:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks for the tip! I downloaded the assassins creed multiplayer app and signed up but I can't connect. It said something about not being able to connect to the server. Anybody able to connect? If so is it even worth playing?
March 02 2010 at 12:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen it would connect, it would say it couldn't find a game, so I should make one. Then it never found players for the game.
I've yet to play it
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