Assassin's Creed II

Hands down the best game in the series. from the story to the overall improvements made after the first game, this was peak Ubisoft. To anyone reviewing this game badly because the graphics are " dated " , rate it on its merits for its time period. literally nothing that came out in 2009 can compare to modern day graphics. Giving this game a lower rating and having that be the main reason is pure trolling and this masterpiece does not deserve it

Okay I will never understand how a 7 is seen as a yellow/ mixed or average. Yall gotta fix these rating systems. This game is great don’t get me wrong, the story and gameplay was really innovative compared to the first installment. However, graphics wise and gameplay, this is dated. My favorite parts of these games are the parkour and on here it’s still pretty enjoyable. Stealth is good, but not great. Overall great game 7/10

I would give the game at least a 9, but it has one of the worst ideas: Timers. You have to complete parkour before the time runs out. And the only reason you fail is because the engine doesn't work properly. You have to go back and start again every time. The developer who had this bad idea of ​​the worst game design should try it themselves. I”m sure that no one tested it. AC2 has charm, but is not really the best AC. Just nostalgia. Today it’s more pain to play. Using timer in games is never a good idea! And it has other unfair situations too.

Still serving as a sketch for future better games, as much as in terms of gameplay and lore as it is as history, this gnostic propaganda urge with rage against every conceivable established notion of christian hierarchy, order, morals and codes, and invites the player enter in the most contratitory methods to achieve freedom allying with lumpenproletarian figures like prostitutes, thieves and mercenaries to take down templars, priests, mongs and the Pope. If it didn't end making its point abundantly clear with its targets and agressive explanation of reality and genesis of humans, it could serve as a simplistic piece of fiction, despite still being cynical. However, the way it presents, it's just propaganda, and a bad one. The dialogue, terribly written; the history unfolds a quite linear path merging with the gameplay evolution, as secrets of the lore are discovered at the same time the protagonist uses them to enhance his skills and weapons. The drama is underperfomed by the characters facial expressions and the twists are quite uneven for general arcs; it didn't help the fact that the direction of Sylvain Bernard opts for the most uninteresting angles and framework, making the decoupage of cutscenes look extremely poor. What saves the product of being unbearable is the visual splendor of the textures of the faithful architecture, buildings, churches, water, clothes and green fields. The same level of details cannot be said to have been applied to combat and the precision of parkour - although pretty functional -, none of them explored as in-depth as Batman Arkham Asylum was - released at the same year. Being better playable, with more variety of main missions, and bigger than the atrocious first game is not a grand merit, but having an infantile conception of the world and not being executed with compromise with deep action gameplay or stealth gameplay, trying to please two consagrated styles, is one hell of a "good to look at, average to play" demerit.

The first thing that comes to anyone who plays this if they played followed the series from the first through to present day assassin's is wtf happened to the graphics good god I purchased this and was like wtf happened to the look of the characters it looks very horrible in assassin's 2 very horrible