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E3 2009 DEMO: Assassin's Creed II

Gameplay footage from the Sony press conference.

Jun. 3 2009

Posted by: Drew

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Assassin's Creed II

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Edited By Psych0Penguin

Sweet!!


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Edited By CL60

:O

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Edited By Dimitris

nice

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Edited By mrcool11

kinda badass double stab, game looks sick

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Edited By ahriman22

Looks like a big improvement.

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Edited By Gahzoo

I think I am going to like this time period more.

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Edited By MeatSim

Looks like there making some good improvements to the game.

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Edited By droop

Looks like the same animations .. Could have changed that ;(

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Edited By lasafrog

Wow. After quickly tiring of part 1, I wasn't interested in this, almost didn't even watch the vid.

Glad I did though, this looks amazing! Nice comeback Ubi!

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Edited By PeasForFees

I think overall Altair was "cooler" and more likeable.

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Edited By peerLAN

I always got lost when I've been in Venice, but no more... after I finish Assassin Creed 2 :P Thanks Assassin Creed 2 :) . I can't imagine how much work the design team had to do... it looks awesome

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Edited By maxszy

Looks  pretty good to me. But it wasn't this type of stuff that I disliked about the first one. I really hope they come out soon and explain about the missions and how you get to your targets and so forth. Those horrible, non-varying, tedious gathering missions were horrid in the first one. They either need a lot more of those to make a good variety so it isn't tiring, or a whole new system in palce for intel gathering.

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Edited By coonce

looks pretty badass

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Edited By PeasForFees

I think the guy meant "a warrior before and assassin" rather thatn the other way round

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Edited By uskomaton

He can swim now, sweet, hated water in the last game.
Looks like a big improvement to a game I already loved.

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Edited By Alphazero

Those dancers make me dizzy.

Can't wait. I'm glad it's still reliving Desmond Miles' ancestors. I want to do more in the modern age as well...

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@Maxszy:
Totally agree. I hope that the counter attack isn't as ridiculously godlike in this one as well.
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Edited By uskomaton
@PeasForFees said:
" I think overall Altair was "cooler" and more likeable. "
Yeah, cos we've seen SO much of this guy.
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Edited By Matches_Malone

Totally Batman.

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Edited By beomoose

That looks hot. If they can cut down the repetition, weird crowd issues, and the like AC2 could be damn good indeed.

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Edited By ahoodedfigure

That city was beautiful! :)  I hope the diversity of tools allows for diversity in solutions.

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Edited By BeanoFritz

I like

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Edited By DannyJ

As long as they remove the repetitiveness that plague everything in the first game, I believe this could be an amazing game.

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Edited By Nasar7
@uskomaton said:
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@PeasForFees said:
" I think overall Altair was "cooler" and more likeable. "
Yeah, cos we've seen SO much of this guy. "
Altair is a cooler name, though.
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Edited By Kohe321

Rad

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Edited By Tortoise

I just really hope the frame rate is higher and more consistent for this sequel.

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Edited By zoozilla

Venice is definitely a much more lively place; glad to see some more gameplay diversity as well.

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Edited By Origina1Penguin

Excellent.  I'm glad water doesn't kill you now.  All the new stuff they introduced looks great and is much appreciated by myself.

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HELL FUCKIN YAAA

this game looks 10 times better than AC1 and AC1 was epic
Ubisoft is tha shits
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Edited By sublime90

looks amazing

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Edited By Chummy8

I still would rather have the French Revolution setting.

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Hmm wow looks good!

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Edited By kmiddlestadt

SWIM!!!!

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Edited By otzlowe

Looking pretty great.

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Edited By Jedted

I saw this footage on the GS stage show and i got so excited when Ezio shanked the dude in the begining before he could expose him, and later when i saw how you could throw people off of buildings was pretty cool aswell.

In the first one i didn't mind the mission structure so much as the combat so i like the new stuff they've added.  I kinda wish they showed more of the guard types since those seemed to have the same animations as the others.

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Edited By Death_Unicorn

Didn't he say you can approach assassinations in many different ways, yet you could only reach that guy via flying?

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Edited By wazp

looks pretty slick for sure, but I gotta admit I'm getting tired of conspiracy theories involving Leonardo. it's not like it hasn't been done before ;)

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Edited By Speaker4TheDead
@sublime90:  Well one of the guys at Ubi said the French Revolution can still very much be used as a setting for the third installment in the series. He also said that the Renaissance was their setting since January last year.
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If the can deliver on the diverstiy promise this game should be awesome.  

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Edited By Reuben

This game looks so sick.

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this game looks good but so did the last one....

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Edited By Azteck

I really enjoyed the first one despite all the flaws it was said to have, this can only get better.

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Edited By giyanks22

Looks One billion times better than the original, and I thought the Original was pretty good.

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Edited By Jambones
@DannyJ said:
" As long as they remove the repetitiveness that plague everything in the first game, I believe this could be an amazing game. "
Yeah, that is what worries me too a little, since there were only, what, three mission types in the first? But still, I am pretty impressed with what I see here. The glider seemed good, but that is only one section that is understandably short.

Well, time will tell.
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It went from night to day within like 5 seconds lol.

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s!ck

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Edited By darkjester74

I also I'm also a bit worried that they are still relying on the old repeating mission structure.  What is shown here is impressive, if they can manage to keep the missions varied and interesting it will be amazing.

P.S.  Where is Jade?  =(

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I did't play the first game, but I hope to do so soon ;)

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Edited By aaox

I love the emphasis he puts on 'so'. "What was so great in AC1".

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Edited By Carlos1408

Looks great I just hope they fix that repetetiveness; it was the first game's major issue. If they fix that I'm sold definatly, I mean double hidden blade, what else can you ask for?! :D