Assassin's Creed 2 (PC)

The first Assassin’s Creed won countless awards for its unique action adventure gameplay, visually stunning graphics, and engaging storyline. Now the developers at Ubisoft have raised the bar tenfold with Assassin’s Creed II.

You return right where you left Desmond Miles off in the first, who had just witnessed his ancestor Altair’s life through the Animus machine. With the help of Lucy Stillman, the insider within the walls of the evil Abstergo Industries, you escape and meet with the modern-day assassins. You use the Animus again by choice, and dwell into your ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze during the late 15th and early 16th century in Renaissance Italy.

The sequel comes with improvements everywhere. Scaling buildings are now a breeze, the storyline has greatly improved, side-missions are far more varied than its predecessor, the computer AI has smartened up, and money now comes into the equation, buying equipment and weapons. The combat is the most improved, with weapons from axes, hammers, swords and duel hidden blades giving assassinations more stylized variety. If you enjoyed the first (or never played it), this is the right game for you.

- © Gerard Ward

EZIO, A NEW ASSASSIN FOR A NEW ERA
Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a young Italian noble who will learn the ways of the assassins after his family was betrayed and he looks to seek vengeance. He is a lady’s man, a free soul with panache yet has a very human side to his personality.

RENAISSANCE ITALY
Italy in the XVth century was less a country and more a collection of city-states where families with political and economic strength began to take leadership roles in cities like Florence and Venice. This journey through some of the most beautiful cities in the world takes place in a time in history where culture and art were born alongside some of the most auspicious stories of corruption, greed and murder

A NEW-FOUND FREEDOM
You will be able to perform missions when and how you want in this open-ended world that brings back free-running and adds elements such as swimming and even flying to the adventure. The variety in game play adds another layer for you to truly play through the game any way you choose

DYNAMIC CROWD
Discover a living breathing world where every character is an opportunity for the player. Blending in with the crowd is easier, working with in-game characters provide ample rewards but can also lead to surprising consequences

BECOME A MASTER ASSASSIN
Perfect your skills to become a master assassin where you brandish new weapons, learn to disarm enemies, use their weapons against them and assassinate enemies using both hidden blades