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Assassin’s Creed was a beautiful box painted with impeccable finishes. A box with three buttons on pants for any treasure, since despite a graphics engine avant-garde for its time, the contents quickly revealed its emptiness and its mechanisms. After a return mixed critics and gamers, Ubisoft has recorded his observations in a notebook. Notes for later, for the next episode.
After playing a final version of Assassin’s Creed 2 in the studios of Ubisoft Montreal, it is clear that the book was used, because almost no comment has been forgotten.

- Read the review of the first Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed, it was primarily the nimble stroll in the medieval towns of the Middle East, a conspiracy theory to the Da Vinci Code, the narrative pivots a little naive and most importantly, a hero of marble smiles when he gets stuck a finger in the door.

At the conclusion of Assassin’s Creed first name, none had finalment little to the fate of Desmond and Altair. The imbalance between the two personalities and especially the excessive insurance of Altair had placed a barrier between empathy and subjects.
There was something missing from these two figures to hit the player instead of staying playful tools. Assassin’s Creed 2 shows the first few minutes he realized that he wanted to issue the license to develop a more intimate level.

The first scene up Ezio and his friends against a gang from a rival family. From West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet, this passage shows an impulsive character Ezio, Latin, mocking Eroll Flynn as a great time.
The character evolves by force of circumstance in the early hours of gameplay to live a kind of duality Batman / Bruce Wayne. He alternates between his psyche noble reckless and immature, with that of the avenging assassin, following a family tragedy. Plagued by doubt, anger, Ezio is a fallible man, the Altair was not as professional indoctrinated. In restoring the humanity of the killer, explaining his journey and its gestation, the designers have created a credible hero with which chemistry operates quickly.

Desmond, as for him, enjoys the “Bleeding Effect” knowledge acquired in the virtual reality machine which rubbed off on him. It is gaining confidence, and became an active role which does not suffer more or less events.
The nuance is that it lacked the protagonists.

The quality of writing is not foreign to this overall improvement. Family of Ezio to supporting roles that shoulder Desmond, the script develops the link between social and emotional characters.
Better, he attempted humor on several tables, either by falling cold or dialogues and peppers replica referenced. Assassin’s Creed took himself too seriously and became deeply annoying. The second opus takes the risk of being wrong.
Everything works well enough to give depth to the roles, confirm the impressions that is forged during the game.

Immersion and the alternation between the two worlds are also treated more appropriately. Desmond phases are more concrete, active, populated.
As for the phases in the Animus 2.0, they are clearly established as virtual experiences both in their graphics as sound details. The supporting roles are addressed in voice in the headphones of Ezio for comment on the action or give evidence, places visited are listed and documented as and progression, while the city appears by blocks, as downloaded by a machine for astronomical calculations.

AC2 consolidates the “real” and its virtual reconstruction with details that score. Other elements fall flat, lacking in impact, but they have nevertheless been attempted and the feeling is rather positive about the efforts.

Assassin’s Creed 2 is for gamers, and a wide audience of amateur action. And yet, he can go to meet his public, as it goes against him. We pass on some approximations Da Vinci historical and fictionalized events since AC2 sinks in fiction as well as in science fiction. This latter aspect is also more present and less clumsily brought in the previous episode.
In fact, AC2 is both highly imaginative and well documented, and that he will try to communicate these two facets in entertaining the player but also in the overwhelming sum of unexpected information. Sheets characters, scene reports, descriptions of customs documents read aloud, the game shows that he is proud of its past Wednesday at the library.

This completeness can slightly feverish countenance the player who wants to stay in the assassination and waterfalls. This is another risk measure taken by Ubisoft that is visibly trying to raise his content over the blockbuster backfiring. It’s artificial substance from the rest, but that adds to the writing and casting to form a coherent, if not solid.
In opposition to this teaching indirect AC2 fun with his subject to do gaudriole nod between historical and pure speculation. Dan Brown would be proud, but also Umberto Eco.

The serious surface Assassin’s Creed 2 is frequently reduced to this particular humor, very geeky, which will arise at the most incongruous to remind us that after all we are here for fun. The dubbing is in this spirit. Doubling Official Italian-English way of Nintendo plumber or Tony Danza can be replaced by any language, with choice of subtitles free.

Ubisoft encourages elsewhere, without seeming to make the game text in Italian, with subtitles in your language. Another ruling against the current editorial policies, which impose too often a single location. It has the choice of VO. Blockbuster or Arthouse.

It notes that the team at the same time taking the time to give meaning or narrative where Assassin’s Creed is simply to tax situations. The main plot takes its epic rapidly from a simple classical scenario of revenge, while the optional missions annexes and earn context. The character that delivers the missions, where the letter is for you, give a rationale for unnecessary tasks.

The collection of hidden objects has changed too. Exit flags by wheelbarrows, the only purely mechanical collection used once to complete a secondary character out of his silence, by accumulating the object of his mourning.

Similarly, the inclusion of an economic system is (in) directly to restore a decrepit villa, revitalize a dying town, and fulfill its armory of collectibles. It was therefore an opportunity to breathe between two contracts, with the micro-management and the gold-farming slightly obsessive.

In the final session, we will charge Assassin’s Creed 2, provided that its content far larger, the gameplay is still as fluid, in which many variants have been injected. The execution of tasks is more organic, choices are more open with the findings putassières sometimes, often intelligent. At times, it sees a touch of Hitman, a bit of Tenchu, a movement or a modus operandi.
The fact that part of the team has worked on Prince of Persia has surely contributed to a level-design richer and more pleasant stroll on the roof of the Italian Renaissance.

With this first impression, Assassin’s Creed 2 manages to dispel the doubts of a carbon-copy result, cobbled big scotch to get out before the fateful Christmas.
The title simultaneously creates expectations very high, which leave him no right to be mediocre. Final verdict in the review, where we will finally if this game is a murderous killing, or a swindler.