Assassin's Creed 2: Game Of The Year Edition

I had been warned off AC1 but love this game. Spent hours and hours sneaking around medieval Italy and the developers obviously put so much effort into creating a marvellous replica of the era. Venice in particular is lovely, having visited, so much is familiar.

The fluidity when free running over rooftops is superb, the missions are really engrossing.

This edition has some DLC built in that fills in some story gaps. I wish I had activated it from the start, so if you get it I recommend you do so. It then gives you a seamless experience.

Overall the game is sublime in places, and just a solid five star elsewhere.

As an aside I did find the Templar lairs, unlike another reviewer. Maybe it was patched or something.

This game goes beyond the first....more to do, side missions and build up all surpass its sibling and ensures your always hunting for something. Whether its altairs armour or glyphs.

My only gripe is most missions are pretty impossible to do full on stealth...you`ll know what i mean when you have to assassinate a guy on a boat during mardi gras. its just not possible and thats sort of the point....to be able to slip in, kill someone and slip out. rather than run in, smash up a few guards, kill the target, smash up a few more guards then run off and hide lol.

Thats just me being picky as i never stopped enjoying this game. might help to play the first one first tho :o)

What an absolute class game, last few years I've been off and on with gaming but this game has thrown me right back into it.
And all for 9.99 too good to be true!!!!!!!!!
Talk about addictive I honestly could not put this game down, I did finish the game a little quicker than I'd have hoped but that's probably due to not putting the game down for a week, I just kept wanting more.
Parts of the game took me back to the very first tenchu on the PS1 where u had to 'stealth' every1 to get top end of level marks.
If I'm knit picking aswell when you go back at the end to the real life I was expecting to do more but is was a bit of a formality to finish with if I'm honest.
All in all tho to date THE best game I've played, oh and just a note to any1 might just be her but my wife couldn't watch the screen when I was on sum of them high rafters climbing and jumping from here to there said it was mekin her feel sick LOL
LOVE IT!!!!!!

in this game you dont carry on from the first assasins creed as altair so people new to these games can play this game without having to play the first. it is easy to follow and some o the things the charachters say can also be very funny ! a great open world to explore, just a pity you go to rome so late on. the new ways of killing are completely epic and the double hippen blades are wicked !! mission modes are mint and even when you complete it you still get to explore the world and do mini missions and find bonuses eg. posters, treasure. a great buy and a complete must have game !

Well, Assasins creed 2, the follow on to an outstanding game. This takes everthing that was good about the first game and improves on it and while their at it removes everthing that made the first one annoying (stupid horse controls for one). AC2 is more ambitious than the first, bigger cities and more targets to remove and more side misssion to boot. Sometimes when a developer adds more to a title, it seems like their just fiddling for something to do, but with this it carries its additions so well it make it a pleasure to find every last collectible and side mission. This is by far the better of the two and its story is way better than the first, epic game!