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Assassin's Creed 2

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Average Customer Rating:	2.0
Release Date:	2010-03-09
Brand:	Ubisoft
Model:	008888685340
Format:	DVD-ROM
Language:	Unknown: English;
Primary Contributor	Windows XP
Weight:	0.15 pounds
Dimensions:	5.3 inches x 7.5 inches x 0.6 inches [Width x Length x Height]

Product Categories

DVD; Fighting; All Games; Fighting; Mature

Product description

Get ready to plunge into the lush and deadly world of the Italian Renaissance, an era of arts, riches and murderous conspiracy. Assassin's Creed II introduces you to Ezio, a new assassin carrying on the deadly lineage of his forebears. Confront an epic tale of power and corruption as you hone your assassin's art, wielding weapons and instruments designed by the legendary Leonardo Da Vinci himself in this gripping and deadly sequel.
In Assassin's Creed 2, you "relive" the life of an assassin during the Italian Renaissance in this open-world action adventure game. The goal is to exact revenge upon conspirators who have framed and executed loved ones; the goal is to be accomplished through assassination.
As players roam the crowded streets of Florence, Italy, they can creep through catacombs and corridors, undertake diverse side-missions, and tail-and-assassinate all manner of human targets-politicians, Templar soldiers, and conspirators. Players can also brawl with family rivals or engage in sword fights with Templar soldiers, but in most cases, they use stealth techniques to complete the mission; for example, players can sneak up on enemies from behind and kill them with hidden daggers, poisoned daggers, spring-activated blades, and swords.
When blades connect, blood shoots out in a fountain-like manner as targets groan or scream. These stealth-kills are sometimes depicted close-up and are somewhat graphic: the camera follows the "herky-jerky" thrusts of the blade; the player hears a distinctly "wet" flesh-impact sound. The most graphic depictions of violence occur during cinematic cut-scenes.
A short live-action movie (i.e., not animated) is included with the game. During a dramatic sword fight, an enemy's throat gets slashed-exposing a wide gash in his neck-as the body flails in front of the camera. The spurts and sprays of blood that accompany some of the stabbing attacks can be intense.
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The world of the assassin is one cloaked in shadow and steeped in danger. Ensnared in a web of revenge and conspiracy, the assassin embraces power at its most elemental, acting as the dividing line between life and death. As an assassin confronted by perilous new challenges and difficult choices, what path will you choose?

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Synopsis
Get ready to plunge into the lush and deadly world of the Italian Renaissance, an era of arts, riches and murderous conspiracy. Assassin's Creed II introduces you to Ezio, a new assassin carrying on the deadly lineage of his forebears. Confront an epic tale of power and corruption as you hone your assassin's art, wielding weapons and instruments designed by the legendary Leonardo da Vinci himself in this gripping and deadly sequel.

Key Game Features:

Explore the deadly, shadowed world of the assassin with new assassin Ezio
Roam freely through the lush and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy
Do whatever it takes to complete your missions in the game's all-new open world and mission structure
Thrive in an environment rich with power, revenge and conspiracy
Practice your assassin's art with all-new weapons and instruments created by Leonardo da Vinci

Stunning Graphics
View larger.

Roam Freely
View larger.

All New Weapons
View larger.

Key Game Features:

Explore the deadly, shadowed world of the assassin with new assassin Ezio
Roam freely through the lush and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy
Do whatever it takes to complete your missions in the game's all-new open world and mission structure
Thrive in an environment rich with power, revenge and conspiracy
Practice your assassin's art with all-new weapons and instruments created by Leonardo da Vinci

Features

Explore the deadly, shadowed world of the assassin with new assassin Ezio

Roam freely through the lush and dangerous world of Renaissance-era Italy

Do whatever it takes to complete your missions in the game's all-new open world and mission structure

Thrive in an environment rich with power, revenge and conspiracy

Practice your assassin's art with all-new weapons and instruments created by Leonardo da Vinci

Customer reviews

« Naysayers notwithstanding... »

This was an excellent game in every way. Despite all the naysayers' complaints, being connected to the internet in order to play had absolutely ZERO affect on the quality of the game. In fact, you don't have to manually save games because they're saved automatically. Yes, during the hours/days/weeks that I played, my internet connection went down for about 10 minutes. The game hung in limbo until the internet came back, and I was right back at it. I understand that the mandatory internet connection makes some people freak out, but it was really no problem at all. The game is terrific.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-09-07

« Best PC Game I've Ever Played- Period! »

Forget all the talk about the DRM stuff- I've only been disconnected once with Cable Modem. This is simply the best game I've played in 30 years of gaming! It's the most interesting, addicting, open, game out there! I loved AC1, and this game improves on that immensely. It's taken me about 40 hours or so to get every little thing in the game- all missions, side missions, treasures, etc. You definitely get your money's worth, and then some. I love that it's single player only. All the other games feel they have to have a multiplayer component, but for die hard old school gamers, a great single player game is fantastic! This goes right up there, and surpasses, my all-time favorite games- Bioshock, GTA series, and Prototype. It mixes the best of many gaming types, and it's not as lame as the RPG games. The attention to detail in this game is amazing. Just the citizens having conversations among themselves, guards chasing you up ladders- and using the same other means of movement you do. That is really unique in this game. Now it's still relatively easy to win every battle with guards, etc., but the puzzles in the tombs, stealth missions, etc. are quite challenging. I also like that you don't have to do everything in a single order. The game develops as you choose where to go and what to do for the most part. All in all, if you have a solid internet connection, don't hesitate for a moment to play this game- Easily the game of the Decade!

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-09-05

« El mejor juego que he jugado en mucho tiempo »

este es un titulo que a pesar de necesitar una conexión

permanente de Internet si tu eres de las personas que no tiene ningún inconveniente con la red lo podrás adquirir y disfrutar de este maravilloso juego muchas felicitaciones a la gente de ubisoft y espero por su próxima entrega

THE GAME IS GREAT..............................

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-09-04

« Perminate internet??? WTF????? »

Don't get me wrong I love the game its the best, I played it on ps3 for a little bit and decided to buy if for PC, but no where does it say you need a perminate internet connection till I got the game.... In the states I don't see a problem with this... but I am deployed to Iraq...

Rating: (2 out of 5) @ 2010-08-31

« Assassin's Creed - circa 1500 »

AC2 brought about the same kind of gameplay with very minor changes. It's about twice as long as the first game, with a routine of combing the cities for whatever is left in them, including the eagle feathers, which are basically hard to find gimmick items like flags in the previous game. Finding the feathers unlocks some features, which unfortunately are too negligible to make up for the time wasted. Locations of the feathers are not indicated on the map, which means that finding the whole one hundred of them is the hardest task in this game. You can still climb towers to unlock viewpoints and covered areas on the map as well as points of interest and merchants.

There are 3 kinds of merchants: healers, blacksmiths, and art sellers.
You can earn and spend money, the renaissance Italy version of money I think although I don't remember it having any particular name. Speaking of money, there are many treasure chests located throughout the game, which can be sought after for the sake of, again, `finding them all' and some spare change, but the money is unfortunately in abundance long before all the treasure chests are found.

The story is quite lengthy and includes a number of revelations, either of personal, to the character, or other kind. It's a matter of personal preference whether the story and revelations are interesting or cliche, I personally liked it. At the beginning you're just a young guy in Florence, from a wealthy family albeit a borderline criminal by today's standards and freely running the streets.
The bad guys in the story unfortunately are bland and obvious to the point of looking thuggish and serving only as a target practice.

The grand story is told primarily through cut scenes and an additional CGI sequence, which is unlocked through deciphering various `glyphs' hidden in the game world. I'll come back to this in a moment.

Now, the idea of the revelation unlocked by finding the `glyphs' is a good one, it's the execution of this idea, which is terrible. After finding a glyph you're basically presented with a series of ugly puzzles on a black background completely unrelated to anything else in the game. They include some pictures from history, e.g. a photo of an atomic bomb explosion, a picture of a tank during WW2, as well as primitive Monty Python-style cut-paste animation. The puzzles themselves range from very easy to hard. The biggest travesty of all is that they take you out of the game thus breaking immersion... (there is a stupid `find the apple [of Eden?] in the picture' in half of those puzzles.

There is also another kind of `puzzle' in the game, the GOOD one.
They are Assassins' Tombs, which are the best part of this game, IMO. They are in a sense puzzles of physical nature in which you are required to get to a particularly hard-to-get and very remote location within a building or a dungeon. These locations contain items used to unlock something that I won't spoil here...
Trying to find your way up (or down) to progress in those is fun and most of the time more exciting than the repetitive and "impossible-to-die-in" combat.

Combat is repetitive and despite not being able to control your moves correctly most of the time very easy, just how it was in the original AC. There were very few additions if any compared to the original.
Regarding killing people, I could relate to being a mercenary assassin in the previous game. Here, they introduced the main character as someone who's killing out of vengeance and ridiculously enough the head count of his victims at the end of the game is many times higher than what the bad guys did (combined).

Cut scenes are sometimes interactive as in oftentimes during a scene you are prompted to press a button to perform an additional action like shaking hands, etc. those actions are irrelevant to the outcome of a particular sequence and can be disregarded. As a matter of fact I couldn't do any of them because you only have a few seconds to hit a button after you see a prompt, which together with the horrid control scheme for keyboard and mouse and my bad reflexes made it impossible.

While the countryside is very limited, city environments are beautiful and vast. For example imagine Venice at night, when there is a full moon over one of many canals there and you look up at it and an eerie music starts playing and your jaw literally drops. The cities are larger this time. Venice alone is probably as big as the original Damascus and Jerusalem put together and has more variety, too.

NPC related annoyances from the original game are here as well: when the guy is running through alleys or streets and runs into people most of the time he trips over and falls down but they don't. Basically he can climb and jump on the rooftops like Spiderman but dodging standing pedestrians while running, quite slowly at that, is beyond his abilities. Adding more "challenge" by hurting realism is a no-no in my book.

In the same vain, traveling on the ground is now preferable to running through the rooftops because the rooftop guards "agro" at much longer distance than the ground guards... and are on every roof now. When you're incognito, you can walk side by side with the ground guards without detection but you are always shot-on-sight by the roof guards.

Help (in-game prompts) for keyboard and mouse control scheme is nonexistent. In fact the prompts you see are for the controller, which makes it confusing if you're not using one.

P.S. It took me around 40 hrs to finish the game.