Assassin’s Creed II – IT’S-A-MEEEEE…. Ezio?

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Gameplay

Case – BitFenix Shinobi XL
Motherboard – MSI Z87-MPOWER MAX                                                                           CPU – Intel i7 4770K
RAM – Kingston Beast Series 16GB 2133mhz DDR3
GPU – OcUK GeForce GTX 970 4096MB GDDR5
PSU – Corsair TX850 850W
CPU Cooler – Corsair Hydro Series H100i All-In-One
SSD – OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
HDD – Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Internal

Another game in the franchise where unsurprisingly enough for me the game is easy as pie to play without a controller.  I’m not bashing anyone who uses the controller though, sometimes you do want to just casually sit back and play the game at your own comfortable pace, rather than sitting up at your keyboard and mouse.  I can also be a control pad user and just lazily sit back and run around as Altaïr or Ezio comfortably while eating some snack or whatever, and this game is perfect for that.  More Desmond sections again are something that really bothered me again, it’s just a part of the story that I don’t particularly care about, and I don’t really want to see it much, what would have been perfect for this franchise would be if you had an option of playing his sections or not.

For a game that released in 2009, you’ll have no problems running this game on almost any PC like the first game.  This is mostly because the graphics aren’t really pushed a whole lot more than the last game, when you look at how much they got out of the previous gen consoles, you’d think they’d push it a little more.  I can say on the PC port they still didn’t seem to do the same and left it the same as the console, I can’t say much to be honest though, this is what happens with TONS of PC ports anyways….

In this game they added double hidden blades which are super cool and add a new way to taking down enemies.  Instead of carefully getting guards one at a time, you can now get two at a time if they’re close enough together, which can be super handy when you’re in a tight spot!  You can also swim now!  Thank the lord for that, no more drowning in an inch of water for you anymore, along with this you can buy guns, throw money to distract people, use poison daggers, assassinate while hiding, buy all different weapons, and refurnish a villa in the game.  Now I know that’s not a hell of a lot of things to add into a game nowadays seeing that it’s almost the standard thing, but these things all being in the second game from the first back then was HUGE, and it’s made this game a bit more re-playable than the first.