I loved Assassins Creed first time around and I have to agree with many of the other reviewers that after a while it did get a little repetitive.
AC 2 is without doubt, a significant improvement on what was already a good platform. The opening scenes have your new hero Ezio in a family feud that escalates and sees the beginning of the whole story.
Echoes of the original AC keep coming back with both the missions and the collection of the Assassins Symbols to unlock levels, weapons and armour but the missions are better thought out and progress in difficulty very well. There are no shortages of Assassination, Courier and Beat-up missions to keep you occupied if you want to veer away from the main plot line and earn a little extra cash and watch for other couriers that appear at random around the cities...there’s plenty of extra cash to be had.
This really is a go anywhere and do anything game but with consequences. Money is earnt through missions and rebuilding the family country residence to its former glory and then pursuing the opposition as the truth is revealed.
A superb game and I love it more than the first, which is saying something.
Easily 5 Golden Bagels
Ewen Rankin