Assassin's Creed II

Ezio Auditore's 2009 debut in Renaissance Italy.

Assassin's Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure game by Ubisoft Montreal and the second major game in the series. It came out for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2009, then on Windows in March 2010 and OS X in October 2010.

Desmond Miles now relives the memories of another ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in Renaissance Italy between 1476 and 1499.

Quick Facts

Developer

Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher

Ubisoft

Director

Patrice Désilets

Producer

Sébastien Puel
Jamal Rguigui
Vincent Pontbriand

Designer

Benoît Lambert
Patrick Plourde
Olivier Palmieri

Programmer

James Therien

Artist

Mohamed Gambouz

Writer

Corey May
Joshua Rubin
Jeffrey Yohalem

Facts from the source article.

Background

Ezio becomes an Assassin while hunting down the men responsible for the deaths of his father and brothers. The open world covers several Italian cities, among them Florence, Venice, Monteriggioni, San Gimignano and Forlì.

The game runs on an updated Anvil engine, and Ubisoft promoted it with Assassin's Creed: Lineage, a three-part live-action short film that serves as a prequel. Two chapters cut for time, The Battle of Forlì and Bonfire of the Vanities, were later sold as downloadable expansions.

Critics gave it universal acclaim for its narrative, characters and world design, and it is often listed among the best video games ever made.