Assassin's Creed II

 PlayStation 3
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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2124 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 86 out of 2124
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  1. yartat
    Dec 14, 2020
    0
    Well done script and well-written characters, BUT the worst controls and camera in all games on PC!
  2. Iowntheworld
    Feb 15, 2022
    0
    Outdated, boring and extremely overrated. AC got good with AC 4 Black Flag, Everything before that was meaningless, soulless and boring. Ezio is extremely unlikable, because he is not serious enough. I want my main character to be actually serious and emotional, that's why Arno from Unity and even Aiden from Watch Dogs are million times more likable and relatable characters. Of courseOutdated, boring and extremely overrated. AC got good with AC 4 Black Flag, Everything before that was meaningless, soulless and boring. Ezio is extremely unlikable, because he is not serious enough. I want my main character to be actually serious and emotional, that's why Arno from Unity and even Aiden from Watch Dogs are million times more likable and relatable characters. Of course gamers who only like Nathan Drake type characters, will like Ezio, because they have never experienced real life. They want everything to be fun and edgy. No thank you! Edward from AC 4 works so well, because he is perfect balance between serious and fun. He knows when to have fun, but deep down he is serious and deep character, that's something Ezio will never archive. Awful game, hard pass. Thank god this series moved on to better games like Black Flag and Unity or i would have never even cared for these games.… Expand
  3. Mjr.B.
    Nov 19, 2009
    2
    God gfx and animations, but extremely poor gameplay. The Ai is basically non existent, the city feels like its full of mindless drones that dont care if a guy falls straight in the middle of the plaza. The crow blending mechanic is both unrealistic and lame. The whole future thing and animus contribute with absolutely nothing to the game experience, they bring the game no value. The story God gfx and animations, but extremely poor gameplay. The Ai is basically non existent, the city feels like its full of mindless drones that dont care if a guy falls straight in the middle of the plaza. The crow blending mechanic is both unrealistic and lame. The whole future thing and animus contribute with absolutely nothing to the game experience, they bring the game no value. The story is completely childish and cheesy. The combat suggests that our hero is from sparta, and not an assassin, relying on stealth. You can easily take out more heavily armed guards in face to face combat, clearly not an assassin way. In conclusion: nothing new, no assassin feeling, dull world, same problems, boring.… Expand
  4. TheQuietGamer
    Jul 28, 2012
    3
    The first Assassin's creed game was fun but needed improvement in order to be anything more than just decent. When I heard the how the flaws were fixed in this sequel (mainly that it wasn't as repetitive) I had slightly higher expectations about this one, but still held off on buying it at the full price. All I have to say is I really hated this game. The story which I found to be trulyThe first Assassin's creed game was fun but needed improvement in order to be anything more than just decent. When I heard the how the flaws were fixed in this sequel (mainly that it wasn't as repetitive) I had slightly higher expectations about this one, but still held off on buying it at the full price. All I have to say is I really hated this game. The story which I found to be truly unique and enjoyable about the first one failed to interest me in any way. And I didn't like Ezio anywhere near as much as Altair. The controls are somehow clumsier, less responsive, and more awkward than it's predecessor. The large amount of content it has is sad because I found that the game was either tedious or boring, and dragged on for way to long. Combat still sucks, actually it may be worse. And honestly it's just nowhere near as good as the first game. I may still play the other games in the series just to see of there's any improvement, but honestly even if I do they'll be low on my to play list. I hated the game and wouldn't suggest it to any gamer alive. Pass this one over.… Expand
  5. White
    Nov 19, 2010
    3
    Nothing new to deliver.
    They just fixed some glitches, the combat system still makes wanna through the controller.
    Overall, Same all same as AC1. Boring.
  6. GavinE
    Nov 20, 2009
    3
    The graphics in the cutscenese are terrible, you think it wouldnt be the case. but it is. The mini map is too small to see wtf is going on. the repetitive nature is more boring that AC1. In fact AC1 was better than this. I stopped playing after a couple of hours, i couldnt take anymore. THIS GAME IS VERY OVERATED.
  7. OmarHamed
    Dec 19, 2009
    2
    I absolutely loved the gameplay (despite it being a bit clunky) I thought the characters were alright, but the missions still didn't really break from that repetition and some things just didn't make sense. I really liked the game economy and all the different things you can do. I loved the fact that I can drag a guy off a ledge and then jump onto his buddies with my knives in I absolutely loved the gameplay (despite it being a bit clunky) I thought the characters were alright, but the missions still didn't really break from that repetition and some things just didn't make sense. I really liked the game economy and all the different things you can do. I loved the fact that I can drag a guy off a ledge and then jump onto his buddies with my knives in their faces. The already ridiculous story however became so convoluted and just so sickeningly weird. I was really liking the game by about the middle. Near the end it was getting weird, but still pretty good. The ending (which I won't spoil) Was just so terribly ridiculous that I got a headache. This game's terrible plot makes all the joy that came from stabbing your way through mobs of guards and corrupt officials turn sour. I wish that I had not wasted my time.… Expand
  8. RichardN.
    Nov 18, 2009
    2
    This game has pretty good graphics and acrobatic for sure... but the same boring repetitive gameplay, horrible AI and standard storyline and poor missions remains. I can't believe this game is rated 91, rent this game, this was the last time I play any Ubisoft's game.
  9. LeeL
    Nov 22, 2009
    4
    Average at best, only a slight improvement over the first. Having BATMAN and UNCHARTED 2 to contend with AC2 failed to deliver on the combat and adventure provided by its competition. Sloppy voice work and a complete lack of ambience made the city feel as sterile as the first.
  10. mikeh
    Dec 7, 2009
    0
    I love this game, as much as i love my neighbours wifes in the hottub. Chocolate, covered in hot chocolate. So the game is awesome, i can't wait to play her hmm IT*. i'm not doing this just to degrade the user overall score. seriously.
  11. DajaJ
    Nov 20, 2009
    0
    The game is the same as AC the graphics are bad and the story is just stupid and the ending is really bad enough said do not buy this game.
  12. ChrisW
    Nov 22, 2009
    1
    My score is not a reflection of the game - I think Assassin's Creed 2 is one of the best open world games out there and very much the game the first one should have been! Good mission variety, awesome city design, heaps of collectibles, and a great story to boot. HOWEVER - the PlayStation 3 version is a disgrace! There is so much screen tearing, I found it unplayable - it literally My score is not a reflection of the game - I think Assassin's Creed 2 is one of the best open world games out there and very much the game the first one should have been! Good mission variety, awesome city design, heaps of collectibles, and a great story to boot. HOWEVER - the PlayStation 3 version is a disgrace! There is so much screen tearing, I found it unplayable - it literally gave me a headache. So I took it back to and swaped it for the XBOX 360 version. Not only does the 360 version feature far less screen tearing, but also has a more consistent frame rate. Honestly, I prefer buying and playing games on my PS3, and am extremely dissapointed with the job Ubisoft has done with the PS3 version. Even more dissapointing is the fact is that not one of the professional reviews I've read reflect the PS3's screen tearing problem. If you have both consoles buy it for 360!!!!… Expand
  13. JedD
    Dec 26, 2009
    3
    The voice acting sucks. There is no emotion. I tried the first mission where you race your brother about 20 or 30 times still cant beat it. Im taking the game back. It is very linear, and if you cant beat 1 part, then u cant do anything else untill you beat it. The camera angle sucks, and when i run into people i fall down. WTF? This game is terrible, it looks like a ps2 game. Im back to The voice acting sucks. There is no emotion. I tried the first mission where you race your brother about 20 or 30 times still cant beat it. Im taking the game back. It is very linear, and if you cant beat 1 part, then u cant do anything else untill you beat it. The camera angle sucks, and when i run into people i fall down. WTF? This game is terrible, it looks like a ps2 game. Im back to COD MW2 within 2 hours of playing assassins creed.… Expand
  14. ELYK95
    Dec 3, 2011
    4
    This game was honestly terrible. I played the first one and the 2nd and i honestly DON'T want to play the 3rd. Yes this game was MUCH better than the first. but its boring repetitive and simply too long. In the beginning the first missions took too long and they were very boring. once the game really started and ezio got his suit the game took off and was fun. the story was forgettable andThis game was honestly terrible. I played the first one and the 2nd and i honestly DON'T want to play the 3rd. Yes this game was MUCH better than the first. but its boring repetitive and simply too long. In the beginning the first missions took too long and they were very boring. once the game really started and ezio got his suit the game took off and was fun. the story was forgettable and boring. it felt like i was just doing boring poorly laid out missions for no specific reason and a very loosely connected plot. Sure the fighting is fun but it gets VERY boring VERY quickly. Instead of fighting guards i would run away from them, and the game was too easy, i could just order some guys too do all my work for me. I actually had to FORCE myself to keep playing until the end. the ending felt forced, like it had to end that way to have another game and the whole time i was just bored as hell. The mission near the end when you had to get all of the codex pages was terrible. it resulted in me riding my horse across Italy for 20 minutes BORED OUT OF MY MIND!!!!! i don't even think this game was that long, i believe it was 12-15 hours which isn't long but it felt long, (and i play LoZ games, those are LOOOOOONG) overall this game was during hours 2-5. the rest was crap.… Expand
  15. Playstationguy
    Nov 18, 2012
    4
    I'm not trying to be biased towards this game, but it just does so many things wrong. The games graphics and sound are insane, and it's well polished too. But the story is hard to follow, I barely knew how he got back in time and who the characters are. The controls are confusing but it holds your hand all the way through, the mission structure is overall pretty boring, the combat is a bitI'm not trying to be biased towards this game, but it just does so many things wrong. The games graphics and sound are insane, and it's well polished too. But the story is hard to follow, I barely knew how he got back in time and who the characters are. The controls are confusing but it holds your hand all the way through, the mission structure is overall pretty boring, the combat is a bit twitchy in my opinion, and the game is really easy.… Expand
  16. TatsMcGee
    Sep 8, 2018
    4
    I have been wanting to give an Assassin’s Creed game an actual opportunity. I rented Assassin’s Creed III and once I arrived in North America the game disk just stopped working. I rented Assassins Creed Origins and then I started to play it but I didn’t like the combat and when I finally opened the map, I just said I don’t have it in me to run around this world. I decided to rent the EzioI have been wanting to give an Assassin’s Creed game an actual opportunity. I rented Assassin’s Creed III and once I arrived in North America the game disk just stopped working. I rented Assassins Creed Origins and then I started to play it but I didn’t like the combat and when I finally opened the map, I just said I don’t have it in me to run around this world. I decided to rent the Ezio Collection and go back to beginnings (or close to it).

    For me personally, playing Assassin’s Creed II feels outdated. It feels bad. Its a bad remaster where they didn’t update the game it just felt bad. I didn’t like the way the movement felt and there is nothing satisfying about the combat. I’m not going to comment on the story because I didn’t get far enough into the game for the story to get its hooks in me. After about an hour, I decided that I couldn’t play the game anymore.

    I am going to give Odyssey a chance but its the last chance for Assassins Creed. If it doesn’t do anything for me. I might have to give up on the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Which is too bad because I love history and I would love have games where I can experience certain time periods but I just haven’t been hooked by any of the games thus far.    … Expand
  17. Cml182
    May 2, 2023
    3
    Will never understand the hype.

    10 - All Time Favorite
    9 - Almost Perfect
    8 - Great
    7 - Good
    6 - Enjoyable
    5 - Average
    4 - Not for me
    3 - Didn't like it
    2 - Bad
    1 - Horrible
    0 - Unplayable
  18. Gefestaller8451
    Dec 1, 2019
    0
    Typical game from Ubisoft. This “game studios” isn’t able to do even medium games. A lot of bags and boring gameplay and story. This game is just for children under 15 yo
  19. Nysp
    Aug 16, 2020
    4
    In Brazilian Portuguese. I wrote the same review in English in Ezio Collection (PS4):

    O primeiro Assassin's Creed (AC) que joguei foi o IV (Black Flag) no PS3. Conhecia a franquia antes disso, claro, mas ela nunca havia me atraíodo. Black Flag tinha algo diferente que me chamou a atenção e me fez querer jogar. E gostei bastante. Muitos anos depois, virei fã da franquia. Joguei todos    In Brazilian Portuguese. I wrote the same review in English in Ezio Collection (PS4):

    O primeiro Assassin's Creed (AC) que joguei foi o IV (Black Flag) no PS3. Conhecia a franquia antes disso, claro, mas ela nunca havia me atraíodo. Black Flag tinha algo diferente que me chamou a atenção e me fez querer jogar. E gostei bastante.

    Muitos anos depois, virei fã da franquia. Joguei todos desde então e só não gostei de AC Odyssey, por diversas razões. Porém, ainda faltava jogar os anteriores ao Black Flag. E foi o que tentei fazer do ano passado pra cá.

    Peguei AC III pra jogar em 2019. Apesar de ter gostado do local e época onde ele se passa (independência americana), o jogo possui uma quantidade de falhas inacreditável. O jogo que mais tive problemas em jogar, em toda minha vida até então, havia sido The Witcher 3. A quantidade de bugs me fez perder algumas missões (tenho vídeo mostrando uma side quest que não conseguia completar devido a um bug). Mas The Witcher é excelente, mesmo com os problemas. O mesmo não pude falar de AC III. Ele conseguiu superar The Witcher em bugs de longe. Mas muito mesmo!

    E por que estou citando AC III ou The Witcher 3, jogos que tive problemas com bugs, em uma análise de AC II? Bom, é porque eu não consigo jogar AC II devido a quantidade massiva de problemas. Comprei há 2 meses a Ezio Collection em uma promoção. E ontem, tentei iniciar AC II pra jogar. Estou desistindo agora que estou escrevendo essa análise.

    Por muitos anos, escuto muitos fãs da série dizer que esse é o melhor jogo da série. Sempre achei um exagero e hoje não tenho qualquer tipo de dúvida que eles falam isso devido a nostalgia. O jogo não é, nem de longe, próximo de Black Flag, Rogue, Unity, Syndicate ou o ótimo Origins. É muito fraco, bem ruim mesmo. Em história é até interessante mas suas mecânicas são tão falhas, mas tão falhas que se torna injogável.

    Mecânicas como lutar, escalar ou pular são completamente aleatórias. As vezes funcionam, as vezes não. E sem qualquer motivo aparente para não funcionarem. NPCs aparecem do nada, de forma muito pior do que enfrentei no Unity. Inimigos aparecem e somem do minimapa e na sua frente durante o jogo. Por mais de uma vez, falhei a missão "Judge, Jury, Executioner" simplesmente porque inimigos apareciam e sumiam do minimapa e até na minha frente, em uma missão que você não pode ser identificado.

    Minha gota d'água pra desistir do jogo veio na missão "Arrivederci", em que eu deveria escoltar a mãe e irmão de Ezio. Ao final da missão, devo protegê-las do ataque de inimigos. A jogabilidade simplesmente não funcionava. A missão falhou diversas vezes porque meu personagem não abodecia os comandos e, pior, das poucas vezes que obedeceu, ainda atingiu a irmã do Ezio quem eu deveria proteger.

    Enfim, a quantidade assustadora de bugs fez de AC II o jogo com mais bugs que já joguei na minha vida (superando AC III e The Witcher 3), sem ter nem perto da qualidade de The Witcher ou mesmo a possibilidade de superar os bugs como em AC III. Uma experiência horrível que só não me fez pedir o dinheiro de volta pois a PSN não aceita após a conquista do primeiro trofeu.    … Expand
  20. Sanicthebiatch
    Apr 24, 2020
    0
    This game sucks dicks bruhhhhhhhhhhhhh̉hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbbbhhhbbhhhhhbbbbbhhhh
  21. iliasvosk
    Jul 10, 2020
    0
    All Ubisoft games is failure, boring and pointless is not worth wasting hours of your life.
  22. EfeAcikgoz
    Feb 11, 2023
    0
    Vallahi oyuna girdim bi baktım tuşların ismini yazmaktansa garip semboller koymuşlar. baktım durmadan birşey çıkıyor yok şuna bas yok buna bas alt+f4 çektim sildim oyunu zaten korsan indirmiştim. (4 saat bekledim bide inmesini)

Awards & Rankings

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#6 Best PS3 Game of 2009
4
#4 Most Discussed PS3 Game of 2009
11
#11 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2009

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91

Universal acclaim - based on 70 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 70
  3. Negative: 0 out of 70
  1. Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
    100
    The sequel has arguably changed for the better in just about every conceivable way...Assassin's Creed II truly offers an experience like no other, one that mixes history and brutality to sheer perfection. And it's absolutely massive. [Holiday 2009, p.38]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    90
    [Games are] about delivering a world that you want to invest your time in, full of characters you can have an emotional connection with, and Assassin's Creed II does that almost perfectly. [Dec 2009, p.102]
  3. PS3bloggen.se
    90
    Assassin's Creed II is such an improvement compared to its predecessor that it feels like a completely new game, rather than just a sequel. The varied missions really shine and the narrative is very effective, in all it's Forrest Gump-esque glory. Despite the quite slow start, Ezios adventures in beautiful Florence and Venice both look and feel amazing, and are well worth experiencing to the very end.
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