Lineage

NOTE: You can watch the first 15 minutes on YouTube right over here. You can catch the full movie on Spike in the next few days. And I apologize for the picture of Giovanni which makes him look like an alien assassin.


Well, last night Assassin's Creed Lineage was on Spike at midnight. Despite getting four hours of sleep before school, it was epic. By the way, there were four commercial breaks, and six porno commercials. Just sayin'.

The movie did exactly what it should've done - get me excited about Assassin's Creed 2, and Assassin's Creed Bloodlines (for the PSP). I was wondering if Assassin's Creed would fall underneath Left 4 Dead 2's giant release on the 17th, but it's starting to look awesome.

The story starts off not with Altair or Etzio - but with Giovanni, an assassin himself who is the father of Etzio. He captures a soldier and discovers, after torture, a group of rebels is planning to kill a duke on Christmas. Yes, that sounds cheesy, and it is - the duke is standing in a temple, there are people there, cheering him on - a citizen approaches the duke and kisses a ring on his finger, and then stabs him in the chest. Another man stabs the duke in the neck, and chaos erupts between rebels and soldiers, with Giovanni in the midst. Giovanni watches as his son grows up, while he discovers another, larger scheme - he intercepts a letter, and to understand the language, has to deliver it - he delivers it to a man who walks into a curch, and after Giovanni walks into a trap and gets stabbed in the chest, Giovanni returns home. He is called again by his masters, and observes as his son makes out with a chick. Because he's stealthy like that.

It left off there, but there was a game trailer - it shows Etzio, watching his father be hanged. Etzio shouts out, and it cuts to a scene with his father in prison. Giovanni tells Etzio to go to his private quarters and to take his cosplay costume. Just kidding. But, that's how Etzio becomes an assassin.

The movie was awesome. It was full of awesome, bloody, knife-y violence and introduced the villian, hero, a bit of backstory, and got me so excited about this game, it's stupid. I'll be traveling to GameStop on the 18th to pick up...

Left 4 Dead 2
Assassin's Creed 2
Assassin's Creed Bloodlines
Modern Warfare 2
Uncharted 2: Among Theives

So, that's a total of 310 dollars, in video games. Oh, great.

But, that's that, Borderlands review tomorrow on EP's Blog, see you then!