As far as history knows these were never built or tested in real life, but in the game Ezio uses one to glide over the rooftops of Venice and infiltrate the heavily-guarded Palazzo Ducale. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci in Florence and the famous polymath supplies him with weapons, upgrades and gadgets, including one of his famous flying machines. Bumping into historical figures is something of a running gag in Assassin’s Creed, and the second game is no different. Then we skip forward in time to his unruly teenage years, brawling and shagging his way around Florence.įlorence is Ezio’s birthplace-that’s what the “da Firenze” in his name means-and the game’s opening hours are spent here. He pops out of his screaming mother and, in a truly bizarre tutorial, the game urges you to wiggle his arms and legs. And so, based on the lukewarm response to Altaïr, they brought in the charming, witty Ezio, who remains the series’ most likeable and charismatic hero. The two main objectives for the game, according to a GDC talk given by designer Patrick Plourde, were to “answer every criticism of the first game”, and to repeat its commercial success. When designing Assassin’s Creed 2, Ubisoft Montreal first looked at reviews of the original to determine which areas needed to be improved.

The new narrative jumps back and forth between the past and present throughout, but you spend most of your time as Ezio, thankfully.Įzio was a direct response to criticism of the first game’s hero, the sullen and forgettable Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad. Assassin’s Creed 2 opens with a dry recap of the original game’s story, which at this stage in the series’ evolution was only a fraction as madly convoluted as it is now. Back in the present day, Desmond Miles is reliving these events through the Animus, an absurd machine that can download the past from your DNA and turn it into an open-world action/adventure videogame. Ezio’s father is framed for treason and executed by a corrupt magistrate, which inspires Ezio to join the Assassins and embark on a quest for vengeance across Renaissance Italy.

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