Assassin's Creed 2

With all of its shortcomings (although it was called Director's Cut Edition), the PC version of Assassin's Creed has numbered between the best titles of 2008 and the excellent sales of the game and the feedback received from the community and the critics were enough in order to cool down the guys from Ubisoft who thought that it is a mistake to blindly finance a trilogy. Since then 2 years have past and now Assassin's Creed 2 invites us again to go between the lines of those who consider that "Nothing is true. Everything is allowed".



Assassin's Creed you ran wildly on the Holy Ground, this time you will jump through time with approximately 300 years, landing in the Italian Renaissance in the 15 century. An Italy made out of state-cities, where the banks had something to say, the art and culture were in top, the powerful families were fighting each other with the help of the mercenaries, and conspiracies and crimes for the usurped power were happening daily. More important is that the events from Assassin's Creed 2 go for about 23 years so you won't be in action right from the beginning, but you will slowly transform into a master assassin along with Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Unlike Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio is a noble young man who at the beginning of the story lives a careless life with his family, being preoccupied on how to entertain the young ladies from Florence, having no clue about the night activities of his father, Giovanni (who you can follow on the video Assassin's Creed 2: Lineage). This existence is brutally destroyed in the moment the Auditore family is betrayed, and Giovanni is executed with Ezio's two brothers, and he swears to get his revenge.

But wishing somebody death is not enough in order to get this done, especially when you are dealing with the Templar Knights, so Ezio will need the help from anyone who wants to help him, either it is about his uncle Mario or a young artist and inventor named Leonardo da Vinci. Here we are dealing with the main plus of the game - the way the characters and the historical events fit in the story.



I'm saying this because you will meet also Niccolo Machiavelli, Caterina Sforza, Girolamo Savonarola and Lorenzo de' Medici, and are added letters or discoveries related to Dante Alighieri, Marco Polo, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Ghandi, Joana D'arc, Hitler, Rasputing or even J.F. Kennedy's assassination. And what is really impressive is the fact that introducing these events and famous names is so natural, that the first reaction you have when you will discover them is "this is so cool" instead of "yea right", thing which can only make the producers happy.