"Next week, Ubisoft releases Assassin's Creed 2, the sequel to the 2007 title that smashed the company's expectations and became the game industry's fastest-selling original property in years. This time, it's a different story. While Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is expected to be the biggest selling game of the season, Ubisoft's could be a close second. For Canadians, Assassins Creed might be more compelling given that the game was developed here.
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Where the game fell down, however, was with its repetitive missions and fights. After getting into a handful of skirmishes and taking out the first half-dozen or so targets, many players and critics found there wasn't much more to the game — the "repetitive quests tend to grow tiresome," as IGN.com put it.
The best way to silence those critics, the designers say, is to overwhelm them. In an advance preview with CBCNews.ca last week, Ubisoft Montreal showed off a game that will blow its precursor away with deep gameplay.
The second game picks up on similar ground — players control Ezio Auditore, a descendent of Altair, in Rennaissance Europe — and features the same level of immersion. Two history professors from McGill University were brought in to ensure realism. They helped prevent anachronisms by pointing out the little things — buildings and structures that were only half-completed in the late 15th century, like the Ponte di Rialto bridge in Venice for example, are accurately depicted in the game."
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Its going to be awesome. Definitely one of the best games of the year I think.
Graphics are stunning. And the developers are promising it will blow away the first one.
Any thoughts?
