From: UBI SoftCategory: PC & Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $54.99
Rating: 
Sales Rank: 10
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 17 – 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
Publication Date: October 31, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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
Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
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?
Features
Amazon.com Product Description
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?
Stunning Graphics
Roam Freely
All New Weapons
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
Customer Reviews:
An unworthy successor, but still entertaining December 13, 2009
Leonard Yelverton (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Assassin’s Creed 1 (AC1) was an enthralling game, with groundbreaking visuals, cool fighting and climbing moves, and an original setting: Desmond Miles is the captive of a present-day organisation called Abstergo, and is forced to re-live the memories of his assassin ancestor, Altair, during the time of the Third Crusade.
In Assassin’s Creed 2, we pick up where AC1 left off. The setting changes from the Holy Land to 15th century Italy, and Desmond takes control of Ezio, a descendant of Altair.
At first, the game is a lot of fun, but it quickly becomes repetitive, consisting mostly of aerial acrobatics, church-climbing and monotonous fight sequences.
I prefer games that do not interrupt my focused cold-blooded carnage with cinematic sequences attempting to provide a plot. AC2 is an exception, with an interesting storyline that is both well scripted and well acted, and provides some context to the vengeful bloodletting that is a key feature of the game. (Ezio is an assassin, after all.)
The graphics are not significantly improved over AC1, but some game features have been enhanced: Ezio knows how to swim (whereas Altair met an untimely end when landing in water); there are some new moves and new weapons, a number of side missions, and some perplexing puzzles to solve.
The game claims to provide the player with an “open world,” giving Ezio the freedom to visit any location at almost any time. Although you can carry out most side missions whenever you choose, the overall storyline is still disappointingly linear.
As a successor to AC1, I thought AC2 was a bit of a disappointment, simply because it seems to be more of the same thing – more expansion pack than sequel. Aside from that, the game is enjoyable and has a captivating plot that will leave you impatiently anticipating the next instalment.
Simply amazing. December 12, 2009
Jarem J. Allred (Pocatello, ID USA)
This game is amazing. If you enjoyed the first Assassin’s Creed then you’ll be blown away at how much better this one is. The game play is fun, challenging, and with the new aspects of different weapons and more controls, this game doesn’t get old. You’ll spends hours playing it, or pick it up for 20 min and do a couple assassinations just to have a quick stress reliever. 5 out of 5 stars.
Travel through Italy! Meet interesting people! And kill them! December 12, 2009
C. R. Swanson (Phoenix)
Ah, Renaissance Italy. A time of great development in theology, culture, art, legal codes and the like. Also, a great time to visit if what you really want to do is run along roof-tops and murder people.
Yes, welcome to “Assassin’s Creed II”, the aptly named sequel to the original “Assassin’s Creed”. I haven’t played that one, but I have played this one, and I gotta say, molto buono!
The game features a lot of wonderful things; from the great eye-candy of places like 15th century Florence, to an engaging plot, excellent voice acting and a nice variety of missions.
The story concerns young Enzio, an Italian lad from a reasonably well-off Florentine banking family. Bad Things wind up happening which force him to go on the run. He learns, from a variety of teachers, including a prostitute (?!), how to become an assassin so that he can get revenge against those who have wronged him! Along the way he picks up all sorts of new weapons, many of them assembled with the help of a young artist named Leonardo…
The most fun part of the game for me is running along the rooftops, parkour-style. Rooftop-fighting can be interesting, if somewhat shorter than you might like at times, as your enemies have an annoying tendancy to fall to their deaths rather than letting you gack them.
Also, be careful not to fall yourself! I fell off a very tall building at one point, but landed on a monk, so that was ok. My shoes weren’t even damaged! He saved my sole.
One slightly amusing thing: you can play the game in several different languages. For fun, I tried playing it in Italian with English subtitles. That worked and was pretty enjoyable, but you only get subtitles with the main dialogue, and not the street sounds. Bummer, that.
I’ve not finished the game yet, but I’ve put in a fair amount of time. There’s nothing in it I care to criticize (aside from that language thing I just mentioned, but that’s so minor, who cares?). I won’t say that it’s perfect, because how can any game be?, but I will say that it’s darn fine and one of the best examples of what video games can be when they really put forth the effort.
Would be a good game, but the controls SUCK!!! December 12, 2009
M. Silva (NC)
There’s a lot right about this game. The story is pretty good (save the whole ‘matrix’ rip) and the graphics are great. It really does immerse you in Florence, Venice, and other locations in Italy. The only major problem with the game – THE CONTROLS ARE TERRIBLE!!!! I mean, really, really terrible. And of course it’s a game that requires a lot of finesse on the controls, which is near impossible to achieve. For example, the game requires you to do a lot of running jumps, but the control to jump is the same as the control to sprint, so you have to figure that one out. Same is true for the control to drop and the control to hang on – same button. The ‘free run’ concept is not well executed. You have many missions that involve a race situation, and while trying to speed through crowded street, you find your character running up walls, poles, etc, and grabbing onto ledges, despite your best efforts not to. You can not stop him from doing these things. Very, very frustrating. If the creators had spent half the time on the controls as they did on the story or graphics, it would be a great game. But sadly I’m left wanting to play and ending up incredibly frustrated.
Can’t stop dreaming about the game! December 10, 2009
Sarah M. Edwards
They fixed the things that were annoying–like not being able to swim–in Assassin’s Creed I and brought in new weapons. It’s just overall a much more in depth game and I after I stop playing it, I dream about it the entire night!
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