- Publisher: Ubisoft
- Release Date: Nov 17, 2009
- Also On: PC, PlayStation 3

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- Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, Historic, Historic, Open-World
- # of players: No Online Multiplayer
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 79 out of 82
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Mixed: 2 out of 82
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Negative: 1 out of 82
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Few games so deftly balance the contrasting qualities achieved here. It's at once both epic and intimate, earnest and lighthearted. The scale of it is truly magnificent, but often its largest and most moving moments come from the smallest and most carefully composed scenes.
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Assassin’s Creed II is one of those few games that manage to be both intimate and epic.
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Not only an unreservedly brilliant and compelling follow-up, but one of the finest games we’ve ever played. Boasting a suitably grand soundtrack, majestic aesthetics and masterful level design, Assassin’s Creed II is everything we could have ever wished for and so much more. Forget Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed II is without a doubt this year’s biggest and best.
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By being better in almost every department than its predecessor, Assassin’s Creed 2 does exactly what a sequel should.
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Perhaps the ultimate testimony is the fact that it left us longing for another sequel, something the original certainly never achieved.
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Minor annoyances aside though, Assassin’s Creed II is a superb game. Ubisoft have clearly listened to the reaction to the first game and have gone out of their way to remedy its problems.
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The game's variety and length come across as nothing more than smoke and mirrors, the endless, grinding busywork that contributes nothing to the overall gameplay is inexcusably plentiful and mind-numbingly repetitive, and to top it all off, the game can't even compete in the visuals department and somehow looks worse than the original.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 239 out of 287
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Mixed: 31 out of 287
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Negative: 17 out of 287
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reepermanxJan 14, 2010
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Jun 4, 2020the one that got them their franchise they really struck gold on this one. the story is what holds it to this day.
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