Preview: Assassin’s Creed 2

* Ubisoft
* Ubisoft Montreal
* Historic Action Adventure
* Release PC: Q1 2010
* Release XBox 360 & PS3: 11/20/09
* ESRB: Mature

After two years of waiting, finally Ubi-Soft Montreal is ready to get their game on! Assassin’s Creed 1 was awesome until you hit the 60% marker when slowly redundancy began to set in. Around 80% completion I began to beg for the ending and could hardly stand the animus breakaway’s anymore. There were just missing elements to the game, but fret not, the two years between titles has given Ubi-Soft a chance to enhance what was already great about the game, and add additional features that propel this game into 2009 game release greatness!

First off, the game goes from graphically amazing to jaw-dropping gorgeous! Lucy, the much maligned & uptight scientist goes from video game noty to video game hoty as she sheds the stiff lab coat for a sleeveless and snug space scientist outfit. The game picks up literally right where it let off, however, Lucy is now jettisoning you in a whole new identity to Florence, the feature city in the game, for the Birth of the Renaissance.

As mentioned, this time Lucy drops you into a new character named Ezio Auditore, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed II.  So it won’t be long into the game before you find yourself running across rooftops and wasting fools with a wreckless, but fashionably stealthy, abandon.  As expected, there will be the typical starter missions to re-acclimate yourself to the fighting controls of the game.

The part of the game I think will be critical this time around in proving this isn’t another clone of the first title is money.   This time around you get to manage a store, and money will play a large part in breaking the monotony of completing missions and simply advancing the game story.  Your character will be able to loot enemies and buy better weapons and armor and then sell or better yet, keep the old gear and hang it up on a wall in your crib, errr villa!  No ground breaking creative inclusion there, but possibly the motivation needed that was missing from the first title!

Needless to say, this is a must pick-up title to close out the 09 gaming calendar.  See ya on the rooftops!

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