But is Bloodlines any good? I'm a huge ac fan (1000/1000 on both ac games) and I'm curious to hear real gamer/ac fan impressions.

Equipping the Auditore cape makes you notorious automatically in every city except the villa with no way to lower it.

Makes it a lot easier to gather a bunch of guards for the combat achievements.

Bah, this was supposed to be a reply @Samuel Vimes

There's still some collection for cheevos/trophies. 100 feathers spread out throughout the whole game.

A lot less painful than the flags with a good guide. The DNA sequence secondary objectives will also show you exactly how many feathers you've collected in which sections of the city down to the quarters so it's a lot more granular and your search area if you're missing only one is greatly reduced.

I'm incredibly happy the game is doing well. It's a fantastic game that should be on most people's x-mas list(if you haven't bought it already).

We're in 2009. I like to carry light. A carrying case with a UMD collection is a LOT more inconveniant than just having the games on a large pro-duo.

I wanna play Dissidia, I just need to turn on my PSP. LBP, same deal! It needs to be hassle free.

I have a PSP 3000 and I refuse to buy UMD's. I bought the system because it was portable. Lugging around a case full of those dumbass disks does not promote portability. (especially when I bought a 16GB ProDuo Stick.)

That last line was supposed to read "love-in"..

The stuff Microsoft is doing with Twisted Pixel, The Behemoth and Ninja Bee tends to prove that Microsoft supports small studios quite well.

But hey.. who am I to disagree with a Sony lone-in..

I gots my AC2 pre-order already. Tomorrow at 8AM I can go pick it up. I was torn between the PS3 and 360 version(PSP tie-in with Bloodlines and all) but I went with the 360 version in the end anyways.

This makes me quite happy.