Assassin's Creed or Left 4 Dead 2?

[Rotaretilbo]

L4D2 and AC2 both saw the game taking steps away from the original. With AC2, the story was very linear, but a lot less repetitive. With L4D2, picking a campaign is no longer just picking a setting, because the various campaigns have different play styles, such as the involvement of the Scavenge game type in the finales of Dead Center and The Passing, or the entire premise of Hard Rain.

At the end of the day, I enjoy L4D2 more because L4D2 has replayability, which AC2 lacks completely, since the introduction of weapons that you can get at your own pace made replaying the core campaign very difficult to manage. In AC2, once you've played it through, you're options are replay the side missions which weren't all that enjoyable, other than the initial challenge they presented, or to play through the game again from the start.

Meanwhile, L4D2 offers you many multiplayer options. Aside from playing the campaign in Standard or Realism mode, there is Survival, Scavenge, and Versus, the last of which offers an extremely unique multiplayer experience, putting a whole new spin on the Attack-Defense game types of old. And if that wasn't enough for you, L4D2 saw the addition of the Mutation game type, which appears to be a myriad of nearly a score of random game types that Valve has on rotation that make mild adjustments to other game types, like Realism Versus.

So overall, I really enjoyed Assassin's Creed 2, but I haven't touched it since I powered through to the end and got all (except for the damned Flying Machine one, which I can't be damned to play through the entire game again to get) the achievements. The story was very compelling (after playing for an hour at a friend's house, I went out and bought the game), and I felt that it was generally really well done and the environments were very beautiful, but beyond that, it wasn't a game that continued to capture my attention. Meanwhile, L4D2 has that ever important aspect of replayability. L4D2 offers an interesting and, while not necessarily unique each time, rarely the same experience when playing through a campaign.

[ivannatinkle]

assassins creed 2 is more fun

[The Reprisal]

Well they're both great games, both improvements over the first ones. However, L4D2 is an arcade FPS and AC2 is a 3rd person stealth game.

It's a really really tough decision...but I'd have to say AC2...gotta love killing two guards at once by walking in between them and stiff arming their faces with hidden blades