You pour money into upgrading your uncle’s villa, and in return you earn money back that must be collected from a chest in the villa. Once you get far enough in the game, you also unlock an investment minigame. Ezio doesn’t simply refill health automatically as Altair did, so it’s well advised to keep a good stock of medicine on hand. There are various shops strewn through the city streets in which to spend all this cashola, including Blacksmiths for new weapons and armor, Tailors for pouches and purely cosmetic clothing dye, Art Merchants for paintings and treasure maps, and Doctors for healing and pharmaceuticals. You earn some simply for completing missions, and can get more by pickpocketing, looting enemy corpses, or searching for treasure. Special flying machine and carriage driving set-pieces keep things fresh while being easy to pick up and play.Ī major new feature in ACII is money, in the form of Florins. There’s also a new quick-swap weapon wheel that’s accessed using R2 in order to accommodate the expanded arsenal. Instead, low-profile “feet” button pressing initiates “fast walk.” This move seems utterly useless at first, but is used to pick pockets for loose change once you earn the ability. There is no longer a “blend” button, as blending has changed into something you do automatically by walking into a group of people. Gameplay controls are strongly based upon those of AC1, with only a few changes. You therefore learn as you go, and the story missions are usually provided one after another instead of thrown around the map to do as you please (although that does still happen occasionally). At first, Ezio doesn’t even know he’s an Assassin once this knowledge is provided, it’s time to learn the ropes whilst on a quest for revenge. The plot structure for Ezio’s life is very different from that of Altair. The base is fully equipped with an “upgraded” Animus, thus explaining the improvements to the menus and HUD’s between the two games. Lucy plans to use the Animus’ “bleeding effect” to train Desmond as an Assassin by having him relive the training of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Renaissance Italy. After a short sequence of escaping the lab, you’re brought to a small Assassin hideout to be trained.
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Lucy Stillman, one of Desmond Miles’ captors from the previous title, breaks him out of confinement in Abstergo Labs, but not before saving some data from the Animus and plugging Desmond into it just long enough to re-live an ancestor’s birth (weird!). If you’re interested in the series, I advise starting from the beginning, a review for which can be found here.Īssassin’s Creed II starts off with a bang. For plot and gameplay reasons, this review will assume you’ve already played Assassin’s Creed 1. What’s amazing is just how much they improved upon the original title. This and the fact that the story was designed for sequels made Assassin’s Creed II an inevitability.
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Assassin’s Creed may have been met with mixed reviews, but it still sold extremely well.