Assassin’s Creed II Review
!!Spoiler Alert!!
Assassin’s Creed 2 begins with a quick overview of what’s going on. If you’ve played the original game, then you know what’s up. If not, then its ok too. It begins with a quick minute and a half overview of the first game and you jump right back into it. Returning as Lucy, your Animus doctor from the first game, is the one and only, the beautiful, Kristen Bell. Lucy then helps you escape from William Benadict’s facility (only to put you back into another ghetto rigged Animus in a warehouse, but that comes later.)
Now you, (Desmond from the first game) see a side of Lucy that you have never seen before. What we’ve seen so far has been Lucy behind the Animus computer and that’s about it. Now, she is straight up kicking people’s asses in order to get you out o this building. You are fighting as Desmond, and Desmond is not very good. Desmond is actually horrible compared to what Lucy is doing.
You arrive at a warehouse where Lucy’s team is awaiting to get you right back into the swing of things. This is where there is a ghetto rigged Animus, awaiting your arrival. What is revealed to you at this point in the game is the fact that you are being trained to be an assassin. Every time you go back into the Animus, you are retaining all the moves and skills from your history’s counterpart. Speaking of which, here we go back into the real core of the game.
A nice addition to the game is the looting. You are able to pick pocket people for additional funds if needed. The amount of funds that you are able to acquire from each individual person depends on what area you are in, and how they are dressed. This is a really a great aspect of the game.
An hour into the game, and you have not yet killed anything. It kind of defeats the purpose of having a game called Assassin’s Creed, when you are not killing anything. You begin as a lowly street kid named Ezio who is constantly getting into fights in the streets between a rival gang and Ezio’s gang of merry bandits. At first, around two hours or so of the game, you are literally an errand boy for your family. I am just going to say, it was very boring so far.
One of the errands you run for your family is delivering a message to a political figure to prove that your family has not committed treason. Well guess what? That political figure is a back stabbing F#$%!. So of course, our family is put to death, and then you go hell bent for revenge. This is where you first start actually killing people. YAY!
During this game, you become great friends with the one and only Leonardo Da Vinci. You bring him these pieces of parchment called Codex pages. He deciphers them and it gives you either more gadgets or more health. Not to mention, he also creates this machine that fly’s. You only really use this machine once, and you have to fly over bonfires to have the flames lift you up again. It is a pretty exciting time in the game, but only lasts around twenty seconds.
Bottom line
The coolest new feature in the game is the double blade assassination. You can literally walk behind two people and assassinate both of them at the same time. You are also able to blend into the crowd by walking side by side with a group of people. You are also able to sit down on a bench to lower your alert rate from the guards. Another cool feature was looting. You are able to pickpocket whoever you’d like, whenever you’d like.
You are also now able to make money from a city that you rebuilt. It’s called the VILLA. You rebuild it by paying an architect to renovate building in the city. You can also buy paintings from all the cities on the map in order to boost the amount of money that your city is worth. Over time, there is a chest in the VILLA that accumulates money. You are then able to go and collect the money whenever you get around to it.
Your uncle Mario makes a Nintendo Mario Bros. reference. When you see him for the first time, he literally says “It’s a me, MARIO!!” I’m not going to lie. It was funny.
There was a glitch where you get stuck in wall in Venice. I was in there for about 5 minutes before I gave up and restarted from the last checkpoint. It really made me upset.
If you have played the first game, you understand that you reach a certain point where you say to yourself “Damn, I have to do that again?” This game gets so repetitive like the first one, which was kind of hard to finish. There was a point where I really didn’t care to finish the game. I did. I was not impressed. Oh yea, and of course they left it open for a part 3.
Assassin’s Creed 2 took at least 2 ½ hours for the game to pick up and finally be worth playing. Once that happens, your already ready to give up the game and say “F%!$# IT!! I’M DONE!!”
!!SPOILER ALERT!!
You end up being the child of Altair. SURPRISE! Not really though.
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