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Assassin's Creed Delayed, GRAW 2 Replacement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-like-knives-better-than-guns dept.

The next-gen beauty Assassin's Creed has been bumped out further into 2007, reports Gamespot. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is receiving similar treatment. Ubisoft is filling the hole in their lineup with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, which is some consolation. From the article: "GRAW 2 isn't the only thing Ubi is prepping for gamers' springtime. Also coming by the end of March 2007 will be seven more Wii games from the publisher, including 'one nonannounced new brand.' With the seven previously announced Wii launch games from the company, Ubisoft expects to have 14 Wii titles in stores before April 2007."

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  1. This is good news. by Kirin+Fenrir · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Game release date delays are almost always a good thing; if the developer does not feel the title is polished enough, please, please delay it and keep working on it. I wish more companies took the Blizzard / Valve route and waited until their games was not only finished, but polished to a fine sheen before release.

    Otherwise, you end up with KoTOR 2; a good game (could have been brilliant) turned into a major dissapointment by a rushed development cycle.

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    1. Re:This is good news. by masouds · · Score: 2, Funny

      Like Duke Nukem forever eh? :-)

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    2. Re:This is good news. by Das+Modell · · Score: 3, Funny

      Judging by their rapid pace, the only thing those guys are polishing are their knobs.

  2. Re:Not surprising by Aladrin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You seriously believe that's why?

    The PS3 will still sell out, despite Sony's recent evil. Those 'few' customers will buy anything they can get their hands of for the first few months. And the XBox 360 hasn't hit 'any impressive milestone'... ? It has out-sold the PS2 in it's first 7 months, compared to the PS2's first 7 months. If that's not a sign that it's plenty successful, I don't know what is.

    No, likely they've realized that Sony's devkit is harder to work with than they expected, and it's taking them longer to produce a quality game. So they did the smart thing and announce a new date LONG before the original date. Fewer customers will be annoyed, and the team has time to make the game right.

    And they can act like GRAW2 is to please the masses all they want. It's simply another money maker for them. Same engine, new levels = quick profit. I haven't played GRAW yet, but I'm not really into those types of games, so I wouldn't be a suitable reviewer for it anyhow. GRAW2 will likely be more of the same, though.

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  3. cliche, but.. by BenClueless · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever"

    -Shigeru Miyamoto

    1. Re:cliche, but.. by Das+Modell · · Score: 3, Funny

      "John Romero's about to make you his bitch"

      -A delayed game that was not so good

  4. Re:Not surprising by DJ_Adequate · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.vgcharts.org/usaconscomps.php?name1=XB& name2=X360&type=2 This one is even worse. According to the chart, anyway, the xBox 360 is so far underperforming the xBox. I think this whole generation is going to be slow starting up.