Assassin's Creed II

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I am writing this review for gamers who are interested in this/or who have never have even heard of it.

I recently purchased Assassin’s Creed II from Gamestation. The cashier was rather jolly, and even gave me a personal review on it, which was a nice touch.

Once I started to play it, I got hooked. You play as a young italian boy called Ezio Auditore de Firenze. It is such an involving game, since there are 100 story missions and over 100 side-missions. After a while of doing the story missions you become the owner of an enormous Villa, with a Blacksmiths and a Doctor. As you go on, every twenty game minutes you earn Florins (Money) depending on how well tourism is going on. With this money, you can add new shops or upgrade them. You can also renovate places to increase profitability. I believe that the most important places to renovate/upgrade are the bank so you can earn more and the Blacksmiths so you can get better equipment.

There are a number of other good things about this game including, jumping off really tall towers into hay bales, assassinating guards from up above/down below/ hay bales, searching for the hidden Codex Pages and the mysterious elusive Glyphs, and the hidden loot everywhere.

There are also three factions that can help you along the way. These three are
the Thieves, the Courtesans, and the Mercenaries.

The Thieves will run along rooftops and climb walls with you, and their special ability is to lure guards away from a spot so you can sneak in. They will also fight if they have to. Their specialist weapon is the Dagger

The Courtesans will provide you with cover from guards. Their special ability is to distract the guards so you can walk by. However if a group of guards should happen to walk by while they are covering you, they will instantly distract them, leaving you out of cover. Their specialist weapon is the sword. (Even though they are easier to defeat)

Last but certainly not least, the Mercenaries will walk around with you on the ground, and when you attack someone they will help out. Their special ability is to attack any guards you choose, which will take the guards mind off defending the place that is important. However they are rather slow at walking. Their specialist weapons are two-handed weapons.

As you progress, more items become unlocked such as two capes which makes all your actions irrelevant in a certain area, the guards will still attack you nonetheless. Another fine thing that is unlocked is the dyes that you can use to colour your robes, colours such as Wetland Ebony, and Tuscan Copper.

Most of the achievements are quite easy to get, since each sequence awards you a nice little 30G. However talking of sequences, there is no sequence 12 or 13 which means that there must be some DLC for it in the near future, which means more special editions.

Therefore i believe that this is a worthwhile game to buy. Thank you and Goodnight.