It can only be better than the first one.

Wow, for once screenshots look like concept art. Looking pretty good.

Looks really good and I can't wait but, are these magazine scans?

Really not interested. I couldn't stand the first one :\

Looks about the same I guess, was pretty disappointed when I got the first game. It'd been pretty hyped. Not too psyched about this one.

"I get the strong impression Ubi's team working on the game have looked at Canaletto's and English painter, JMW Turner's work to aid them. "

The screens look really awesome. I'm getting excited by the fact that with games like Assassin's Creed you're placed in new environments and time periods.

I hope they don't tone the violence at all and still have those kick-ass, bloody-as-hell reversal moves.

"Looks about the same I guess, was pretty disappointed when I got the first game. It'd been pretty hyped. Not too psyched about this one."

Looking at those screens, I can totally see water being a major stealth element in the game. The original had an extreme lack of it.

The first 2 screenshots are just amazing. Hopefully this game is less repetitive as the last one. I barely made it through the first game, but I've got a hope for 2.

Sweet as hell. I never got the first one, but surely this environment will be more interesting, and they'll have learnt from their mistakes in regards to repetitive objectives and what not. Day one if all goes well.

Awesome! Nice find, Linky. And I gotta say, it's nice to see Desmond's ancestors eventually caught onto the concept of swimming. =P

Nice, looks awesome! =D

"Looking at those screens, I can totally see water being a major stealth element in the game. The original had an extreme lack of it."

Nice looks likeAssassin's Creedwith swimming hopefully not so repetitive. 

Oo, awesome. I wanna touch. ;__;

Loved the first one. These stupid filters are pissing me off though. I just wanna SEE it.

"Looking at those screens, I can totally see water being a major stealth element in the game. The original had an extreme lack of it."

Honestly the only problem I had with the game were the repetitive side missions to do before assassinating each target. The actual assassination of the target and exploring the locales kept me going. Chasing that rich, obese man through the city streets or following that doctor around the medical area were so well one and genuinely unique. I like how every assassination scenario played out differently. If they can just give me more stuff to do before the actual assassination, I'll be set for the sequel.

Those shots actually look pretty amazing.  It's pretty awesome that the team at Ubi Montreal are exploring locations that other games in the past haven't really gone into.  I thought it was interesting when rumors first mentioned that Assassin's Creed 2 would take place during the French Revolution, but this is even better.

Looks nice, hopefully UbiSoft gets rid of the repetitive side missions and collecting of flags.

 It's pretty awesome that the team at Ubi Montreal are exploring locations that other games in the past haven't really gone into.  I thought it was interesting when rumors first mentioned that Assassin's Creed 2 would take place during the French Revolution, but this is even better."

Im not liking the swimming...

You would definitely not want to swim in the real thing, Venice while looking beautiful in parts, stinks something rotten in places. It's not romantic at all when you consider that. I think many couples must be shocked by it. I went five years ago, with my then girlfriend at the time who was Spanish. There were times where were both really embarrassed and appalled by it.. We sprayed a two bandanna's with perfume and wore them around our necks, just in case. When things get rough we looked like two Latino gangsters, lol

It's funny, because both of the supposed most romantic cities in the world, Paris and Venice, both reek!. Paris because of it's partially covered sewer system, and Venice for, I dread to fucking think.

 It makes perfect sense to me that both those cities back in the day, in the time this game is set in fact, were doing a lot of trade with the Arabs. They had something which was prized, sweet smelling spices and herbs, tree barks and saps.

this looks awesome...i can't wait

and as long as that info that was leaked is true, this game will be so much better than the first

"Looks about the same I guess."

I can't wait! Ioved the first one. I hope it Isn't as repetitive as the first though.

Dude whatever, that's concept art.

the first one was overrated. the gameplay was repetitve, and the story sucked. If this game is the total opposite of the first one, im all in. 

Hopefully Ubisoft listened to the players and fixed some things that were wrong with the first game. especially the repetitivness even though it didn't bother me.

"the first one was overrated. the gameplay was repetitve, and the story sucked. If this game is the total opposite of the first one, im all in. "

I liked the first one, and enjoyed it quite a lot...the only thing that got to me (like most people) was the repetitivenes of the side missions... and I really, REALLY dispised the collecting flag missions!
I loved the gore and bone crushing combat!!!
Hopefully they'll fix the issues it had...

"You would definitely not want to swim in the real thing, Venice while looking beautiful in parts, stinks something rotten in places."

Assassin's Creed was a lot like BioShock for me, beautiful game with a great sense of originality and design. But sorely lacking in the gameplay department.

I have mixed feeling on AC2. Much like I do for BS2 lol.

Just a logical observation here. Those guards in Armour, if they are wearing heavy Armour, they wont be able to swim and give chase.

Perhaps, the real Armour that city guards wore at the time had something akin to a quick release mechanism, where they could drop Armour plates with a sufficient degree of ease and give chase if need be. My thinking is that some guards, had to have Armour that allowed them to do that. while others had specialized Armour, made of bound leather that was flexible and light enough to allow for swimming at an instant.



 

Some dudes look like cops with swords in those screenshots. They can probably chase you.

The game definitely looks beautiful graphically, if they are actually screens which there are no proof of. Still, its just more of the same of the first AC, therefor its not even worth a rent to me. I honestly did want to like the game for more than 20 minutes.

he can swim! thank god do you remember the boat mission in the first one, aw the bad memories

"Just a logical observation here. Those guards in Armour, if they are wearing heavy Armour, they wont be able to swim and give chase.

Perhaps, the real Armour that city guards wore at the time had something akin to a quick release mechanism, where they could drop Armour plates with a sufficient degree of ease and give chase if need be. My thinking is that some guards, had to have Armour that allowed them to do that. while others had specialized Armour, made of bound leather that was flexible and light enough to allow for swimming at an instant.  "

The running and jumping and exploration was the best part of the first one.  This looks to be riding on the same things, the hiding in straw and stuff like that, hopefully they do what they say and make the lead up to the assassination more interesting.  I forget, could you swim in the first one?

I'm sooo buying this game.

Is it me or do the solider look a little like the soliders from the last game? Muslims?

Are those screenshots really in game? They are beautiful.

Looks awesome.  I'm excited, might go back and play the first one again.

To be honest I loved the story and the gameplay of the first one and I am extremely interested in what the story-line for the second one will be.

Those look great. Nice to see he doesn't automatically die in water now ahaha

Epic... SO EPIC!