Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Amazing"

*Warning contains spoilers from Assassins Creed 1.


I am going to try and keep this a little vague as I did with the review for the first game as to not spoil to much of it for you. So in the second game Desmond is now living the memory of his ancestor from the renaissance, Ezio. The game play is pretty much the same as the first game with a few changes. There are more places to explore this time around and more side things you can do as well. For example you can renovate the villa and parts of the town it is in to get more money. There are new weapons you can have as well and you can also buy armor to add and change your look. Your armor can get broken so at times you will have to go to a blacksmith if you want to fix it. Also health and memory synchronization are not one in the same as they were in the first game. Not a big deal though as you can carry medicine in your inventory to heal you and there are always doctors around that can heal you. The style of game play is a little different this time. It is not like the first game where you basically had to do 2 tasks before getting your assassination target and so on. Also there is less time playing as Desmond. I kind of liked how in the first game you got to control Desmond and get some dialogue in between memories about what was going on. In this game you only get to play as him 3 times, but there is conversations with the people running the animus while you are playing.


The games story is about Ezio and his rise as an Assassin. I won't really go into the details because I don't want to spoil anything, but the assassinations this time around are more personal. Unlike the first game where Altair's master told you that you were killing people to protect and help mankind and then later find out about the Eden apple, this game doesn't get to that until more of the end. The games story is about Ezio trying to get revenge for something that has happened. The Eden apple is brought up and in the game as well as the whole part about the Pieces of Eden from the first game as well. You do assassinate more people in this game, but it is more on a corruption level if that makes sense. The game takes place over the course of 20 years as Ezio tries to set things right and kills people to stop the corruption in the different cities. Your orders are not given to you from just one person like in the first game, but rather many different people. In a way think of Ezio as Batman, but a bit more secretive. By the end of the game all of the different people who were giving you orders and some plot points from the first game come together . Also the second story I mentioned going on back in my review of the first game not only gets more clarity, but it is bigger than you think and you learn there is more to this series than previously thought. Also this game has the greatest use of credits I have ever seen. I won't say anymore, but it makes the ending even better.