Assassin's Creed 2

With this game being nearly 15 years old at the time of this review, the game has certainly not aged like fine wine. With very lacklustre combat, ageing graphics and overly repetitive quest design there's a lot the industry has improved upon. That being said, this game is still an instant classic in my book (bias warning: I grew up hooked on AC games).

This game offers a superb story, this being the kickoff of the much beloved Ezio trilogy, that knows when to calm it down or give the player more excitement. Besides the story, the game possesses great level design, with sprawling cities that provide the player a nigh-perfect playground to run around and mess about in. There's always a new alleyway or climbable surface to mix up your foot pursuits down.

The two DLCs, sequence 12 and 13 (aka 'Battle of Forli' and 'Bonfire of the Vanities'), feel relatively out-of-place. Ubisoft initially took them out of the game upon its release for a reason (presumably money), but seeing them force the player to engage with them now I might see another reason for its non-existence at launch. They disrupt the flow of the story quite heavily and offer no tangible progression besides a single good speech from the protagonist. Worth playing through to get to the game's ending of course.

Honored to be able to play this video game, once you get used to jumping you will be able to enjoy the beautiful Florentia, and thrilling stories of Ezio. I must say that it is a legend. I can't believe that 12 years have passed but it is still so enjoyable, so content-rich and so beautiful,

The game is preaty good. The story is the best part of this game. However because of how old this game is in this point, the fighting mechaniques really sucks. Often I get bored through playing with the same fighting style. The assassin's game which got created after this got a lot better fighting style. I would recommend only to play this game if you want to get the complete experience of the franchise or u just seems to enjoy game mostly because of it's story.

Amazing game. Getting used to the controls takes some time, and they can be wonky at times, but overall I absolutely recommend this game.

Ye, Still a great game even by today's standards.Did kind of suck having to map stuff to the controller.

Great game. I played this so much when I was a kid. This steam version works great but you will need to install a fix in order to use a modern gamepad. The fix is super simple, you'll find it in the guides here on steam. I played through the game at 1440p, 144hz. Didn't encounter a single bug. The game is still really beautiful.

Really the only negative thing I have to say about the game is just that the combat lacks any challenge. There wasn't a single point in my playthrough that I was killed by an enemy, and there wasn't a single point where I came close. This is a pretty common criticism so just be aware of this before you try the game. It gives you many different ways to approach combat but so few reasons to actually strategize and avoid combat. You know you can just run through an entire army of guards so there's isn't much reason not to. The game would be 10/10 if it was more challenging. I give the game a 9 it's great. Story is great. Voice acting is great. Gameplay is great. Awesome game all around

Such a fantastic story line and real world backgrounds with well designed treasure hunt puzzles. Enjoyable Renaissance Italy tour.

shit of a game
really horrible
would be forgotten if it wasn't for the lore and game culture

Absolute classic that took the best from the first game a made everything way better. There are few minor imperfections but nothing too annoying. The story is amazing. The music is astonishing! And the whole Italy looks so beautiful.

On one side, this is one of the best games ever made, a true classic that will stand the test of time.

On the other side, you have to deal with ubishit and their garbage practices.

The penultimate Assassin's Creed game this game defined the franchise for so long that even now it is still remembered as the golden age of AC games. None have surpassed it since though a few have tried, yet they all miss the point of why this game was the best. It was because of the characters, the setting and the in-depth attempt at keeping things loosely based on real life history. Ezio is THE Assassin and his growth and development in this game and the next two are excellent and the best Ubisoft ever had done in their games.

Unfortunately it was quickly lost after this and the sequel, but I definitely recommend this game to any and all.

Overall Score: 9/10.

game is full of bugs, some textures arent loading, and eagle vision is broken

Felt many emotions while playing this game, and this game had new mechanics as well. Loved the experience.

Good game, graphics a bit outdated, but parkour, combat and stealth are good. Story line is the best.

it's really fun game and better than the first game, more fluent at climbing is the most upgrade that may i first fell in this game, for the story it's good

Such a unique game and deservedly an all-time classic. The gameplay did not age well and might sometimes feel frustrating, but the story and level design are superb and still stand strong. Trust me when I say you will feel cool using the knowledge gained from playing this game to navigate real-world Florence, Venice, and Rome.

Game is OK. Ezio story is pretty decent. But the game overall has not aged well at all. Graphics popping in and out. Controls are out right HORRIBLE, one of the worst controls in a video game imo, even with a gamepad. I think i died more of just Ezio leaping out of nowhere when climbing etc. Got really tedious real fast.

The game becomes very repetitive after a while. Classic open-world ubisoft game.

Overall, its a 6/10. Grab it on sale.

This game does not work. The UPlay launcher would not let me log in or create a new account.

Closed the servers you cant play DLCs any more.

Amazing story, great character about 20 hours of gameplay to beat the perfect game if you want story games. All tho some of the controls are wierd still the game is perfect.

Just finished Assassin's Creed 2 again, and wow, it’s just as incredible as I remember. Ezio’s story is so personal, and exploring Renaissance Italy never gets old. The improvements in combat and parkour over the first game really stood out. Honestly, this game needs a remaster ASAP—it’s a classic!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Great Game. Lovely historical areas with great contexts that we can read about with great story line. It has a fun gameplay but sometimes because of the controls being a bit wacky, the characters don't do what I want them to do. But a great game overall, would recommend to have a play

A Timeless Masterpiece in Gaming, and Ubisoft’s Lost Legacy

Assassins Creed franchise is my favorite game franchise and Assassins Creed 2 is for me my second most favorite game but for a lot of people this is the peek of this franchise. This is a really great game the main character is the absolute peek of characters in this franchise. The graphics are a bit out dated its a 2009 game but still top tier of games.

This game improved so much after it's first game damn such a good improvement

The first few hours aren't that bad, sneaking around and parkour is pretty fun for the first few hours. The stealth is as shallow as it gets, run behind (or in front) of a guy and stab him, hide in haystack if stopped, repeat ad nauseam. I started playing AC2 because I wanted to get into stealth games, a genre I am extremely unfamiliar with. I enjoyed it at first but it gets so repetitive, same goes for the missions and non-stealth combat. I felt brain dead after a while. It seems this kind of stealth that (I believe) AC franchise helped popularize is called popcorn stealth. Games like MGR:R, Insomniac’s Spiderman and Elden Ring all have stealth, but it sucks donkey dick. It's so incredibly lame. While I haven’t gotten far it in, MGS3 seems like the perfect stealth game to me, especially on European Extreme. There is no room for failure, you can't just run up to a guy, shank him and run away. Getting back on track, while I find AC2 to be a brain-numbing slop, I can't say I hated it. Ezio is really cool, especially his kill animations, the parkour is fun and snappy, the graphics are pretty good for its time. I’d recommend AC2 if you just want something to turn your brain off to, if you aren’t too picky

The most interesting thing I have left to do in this game is to explore the Secret Location of the Auditore Family Crypt. On my map, I don't have an icon for it, and when I go there it says "Unlock this map through the Ubisoft Club.
Shouldn't the Crypt be available to me since i bought the game and there is no addon for that location

Still the best Assassin's creed to date. This phrase is definitely overused at this point and tbh rightfully so. The storytelling, pacing and the emotions you get from this game is out of this world. Maybe it's all outdated at this point but back then this game's story packed a punch. I'm replaying this after 9 years myself and the bucket of feels I got from playing this (with its God-tier music playing throughout the game) is unreal. Hands down, the best title of the series and yet it feels tragic knowing Ubisoft will probably never reach this peak.

"Assassin's Creed 2" is a masterpiece that elevated the series to new heights. With its rich historical setting, engaging story, and memorable characters, it's a must-play for any fan of action-adventure games.

forces you to create a ubisoft account,which did not work for me for some reason. then, customer service requires you to have a ubisoft account...????? absolute degeneracy, death to ubisoft

I would love to play the game I spent money on but “ubisoft service is currently unavailable“. Ubisoft, why do I need to connect to your crusty servers to play a 10+ year old game… and more importantly why can you not support the servers that I am mandated to connect too.

Great game that really started the whole series becoming one of Ubisoft's main staples for both better and worse. Unfortunately the port over to PC ain't that great and the game-play while good, definitely feels aged.

bought this out of nostalgia. no controller support but still a good play

Assassin's Creed II Review

This game has an amazing story and the combat system is definitely really good but I do have to say that both stealth and parkour are absolutely atrocious.

I can't play the game here on steam because of the cr4p uplay keeps popping up, it is bugged out, nice joke, I need to do the black magic in order to play it.

Dont buy
it is not controller supportive considering it was a Playstation game. Make sense dosent it. ruined the experience and can not get refund
if you play pc controls and dont mind playing this on pc controls then by all means

Thank god for the internet for allowing me to cheat on some of the puzzles.

I played the first game long time ago and am glad to play this game while it was on discount. It's plays about the same as the first but has a bit more content. If you enjoyed the first game then you should be fine with this game too. The flaws in the first game are still here too so hopefully you didn't mind them too much.

I should mention that there are some puzzle elements that weren't in the first game and they are really though. There are also tomb raiderish levels too that you can find that eventually lead to a great reward. There is one optional collectable but far fewer of them when compared to the first game and I didn't bother to get them all.

I would be curious to see what the online multiplayer is like and who knows, maybe one day I'll get to try it. The single player is just fine for me

I eventually get assassin's creed 3 and see where the story goes form there. Genentic time travel, who knew??

Do NOT waste your money on this. Ubisoft does not work and will not help you make it work. You will not be able to play the game without downloading Ubisoft's launcher and the Ubisoft Launcher does not work.

Still holds up in 2024. Surprisingly good graphics, intuitive and virtually seamless controls/parkour, and an engaging story.

Great game and i like the story of the family
for the new player if you meet issue in uplay when launch the game, should unistall it from your device and install ubisoft connect create account if you haven't and enjoy

Its an fantastic game with great gameplay and an amazing story

Up there with Halo 2 and MW2 as one of the best sequels ever. Improved game play, characters and veriety, it took the potential of AC and realised it, still worth a play and unlike the orginle has aged very well.

even though it has old graphics and is from 2010 I still recommend playing this game,it just shows u what the italia was like in the 15th century.

I love the game.
Why dont the do them like this no more.....

The problem with this game as well as with all games by Ubisoft its the fact that even though I bought the game from Steam, I do not have any Steam functionality (no cloud saving, no time tracking no achievement). Furthermore, when I look at this game in my steam library, I get the same view I would get with a pirated game: no description no nothing!
It is a shame but until Ubisoft does not fully support the steam client with all its features I will simply play other games and spend my money on other titles.
The game itself is really good but the problem is the unsopported steam client experience and beign forced to launch the game from Ubisoft launcher which is inferior under every perspective when compared to the steam launcher.

Bought it on sale for $4.99USD. Tried to run it but Uplay doesn't work. Went to Ubisoft Connect website, installed UC, tried to run it again. Still doesn't work.

Lesson learned: don't buy Ubisoft games on Steam. They won't work, at least not without forcing you to jump through several hoops including installing malware on your computer.

I hope Steam likes me asking for refunds, because that's what this garbage earned them.

I love this game but FUCK UBISOFT THE GAME DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY ANYMORE FOR SOME REASON THEY CAN RUIN A GAME FROM 2009 THIS IS RIDICULOUS I AM SO FUCKING MAD. "This game wasn't designed to support controllers" WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE GAME WAS LITERALLY MADE FOR THE X360 AND PS3. I should buy a jailbroken x360 Ubisoft will never again get even a single penny from me.

Assassin's Creed 2: A Gaming Legend

Assassin's Creed 2 isn’t just a game—it’s a masterpiece that elevated the entire series. With the charismatic Ezio Auditore as the protagonist, players are taken on an unforgettable journey of revenge, betrayal, and power, all set against the stunning backdrop of Renaissance Italy. Florence and Venice aren’t just beautiful; they feel alive and demand exploration.

The improvements over the first game are massive: smoother gameplay, more engaging combat, and deeper character development. It was the perfect game at the perfect time, and to this day, it remains a timeless classic. If you haven’t played it, you’ve missed out on one of the greatest games of all time.