World size

[Toad]

How large is ACR world compare to AC2? I heard there is only 1 city-Constantinopole, but how big is it? And I also would like to know which game has more content: This one or ACB or AC2.

[Coldhands]

With the possible exception of AC3 (which I'm only a little ways into) AC2 has a the largest overall world in the series so far. Constantinople in ACR feels just a little smaller than Rome did in ACB, but that's partly because there's a large body of water in it.

Personally I like Constantinople more than Rome (or any of the cities in 2); partly because of its look and partly because I felt like it was laid out a little more logically. And I enjoyed ACR more than any of the previous AC games as well. Yes, the story is pretty much just fleshing out the existing plot instead of advancing it, but if you like the story in Assassin's Creed, you'll enjoy Revelation's contribution to it. As for gameplay, if you've played 1, 2 and Brotherhood, then you'll probably get the most out of the fairly minor changes they made in Revelations. The hook-blade improves your climbing a little, the zip lines get you around the city a little faster, and the bombs allow for quick and easy crowd management.

The assassin recruitment/leveling meta game is now larger and serves more of a purpose, and the tower defense mini game they've added doesn't come up very often, but works well as a nice break in the action.

In terms of overall length/content ... I think Revelations was a little shorter than Brotherhood and noticeably shorter than AC2. I bought the game of Amazon and I'm not sure if there's anything in game that tracks play time, but I basically played nothing by ACR for about 5 days until I was done (with about 75% total sync). ACR is a smaller game than 2, but it does everything a little better.

[Der Ungrund]

Definitely get AC2 over any of the other games in the series. It's the best game in the series by far, also the biggest. AC:Brotherhood and AC:Rev are OK, but they are kind of like glorified expansion packs padded out with tons of pointless busywork and tasks.

[Dog]

You won't be disappointed by AC2, the story is soooo long, the missions vary across cities and you got the puzzles to stress over for hours like I did.

[effinate]

Originally posted by Der Ungrund:

Definitely get AC2 over any of the other games in the series. It's the best game in the series by far, also the biggest. AC:Brotherhood and AC:Rev are OK, but they are kind of like glorified expansion packs padded out with tons of pointless busywork and tasks.

AC2 side quest: here's a bad guy that has nothing to do with the main quest! Go kill him!
ACB or ACR side quest: here's 4 soldiers that just finished their training and joined the antagonist's army! Go kill them!

AC2 had filler side quests. The other two had side quests that could've been main quests.

[teed]

Originally posted by Coldhands:

With the possible exception of AC3 (which I'm only a little ways into) AC2 has a the largest overall world in the series so far. Constantinople in ACR feels just a little smaller than Rome did in ACB, but that's partly because there's a large body of water in it.

Personally I like Constantinople more than Rome (or any of the cities in 2); partly because of its look and partly because I felt like it was laid out a little more logically. And I enjoyed ACR more than any of the previous AC games as well. Yes, the story is pretty much just fleshing out the existing plot instead of advancing it, but if you like the story in Assassin's Creed, you'll enjoy Revelation's contribution to it. As for gameplay, if you've played 1, 2 and Brotherhood, then you'll probably get the most out of the fairly minor changes they made in Revelations. The hook-blade improves your climbing a little, the zip lines get you around the city a little faster, and the bombs allow for quick and easy crowd management.

The assassin recruitment/leveling meta game is now larger and serves more of a purpose, and the tower defense mini game they've added doesn't come up very often, but works well as a nice break in the action.

In terms of overall length/content ... I think Revelations was a little shorter than Brotherhood and noticeably shorter than AC2. I bought the game of Amazon and I'm not sure if there's anything in game that tracks play time, but I basically played nothing by ACR for about 5 days until I was done (with about 75% total sync). ACR is a smaller game than 2, but it does everything a little better.

well said