I thought you knew my stance on these games. I avoid them like the plague. They are video game crack. Be cafeful on how addicted you get. I almost flunked out of college playing the old text-based muds online...I can only imagine these graphical-based ones are 200x more addictive.
On the other hand..Pup has played them all...and he tried AC2..and decided he did not like it as much as his current mmorpg (dark ages of camelot).
I've been spending all my home hours doing home improvement projects.