Assassin Creed 2: Game Review

Reviewed by Matthew on 9th May 2016
Our Rating: 8.0/10.0

Platform(s): PS3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
Genre(s): Action-Adventure
 

Assassin creed 2 is the second installment and is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft. This game occurs across two timelines; in the  21st century you play as Desmond Miles who relive the past of his ancestor genetics memories through the ‘animus’. However, the main narrative takes place Renaissance Italy during the 15^th and early 16^th where you play as Ezio Auditore da Firenze the other main character and explore Florence, Venice, Tuscany and Forli.

Assassin Creed 2 has a wonderful and well written story where you guide Ezio, a suave Italian dude with a fancy cape on his quest for vengeance against those responsible for betraying his family. Ezio is likable character not only because his looks awesome and has a nice accent, it because you care about him and about the people who are important to him. I like how they use real people from the history of that time. For example Leonardo Da Vini plays the role of helping Ezio on his journey by decrypt codes and builds all your gadgets for you so.

  

The game graphics looks amazing. They really did a good job depicting the Renaissance Italy nicely and worked hard on the boisterous, stereotypical Italian characters with all that bravado and personality. The gameplay mechanics has improved from the first installment from the fluent free running and the combat is innovative and not hard to master.  The mission varies from assassination, jumping puzzles and carnival game which make the game interesting and not repetitive like the first installment. Also there's many collectibles to collect and side quests for those hard core gamers.

However, when playing as Desmond in the modern day is bit bland and in my opinion it not needed as they not much to do and slow the pacing of the game. Furthermore, the graphic detail when playing outside the animus looks a bit bad compare to rest of the game

Overall the game is fun and enjoyable to play with likable characters and solid gameplay and it has improved all the flaws from its predecessor.

Pros:

- Likeable characters and great main character

-  wonderful graphics 
- variety if missions ans weapons

Cons:

- boring outside the animus