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30 ASSASSIN’S CREED II

“STILL THE BEST TIME WE’VE HAD WITH THE SERIES TO DATE.”

FORMAT PS4, PS3 / RELEASED 2009 / PUB UBISOFT / DEV UBISOFT MONTRÉAL

There was always the chance Assassin’s Creed could have been a blip on the radar rather than the behemoth it is today. Ezio Auditore da Firenze is what saved it.

The charming Italian has no knowledge of the Assassins or Templars when we meet him as a carefree 17-year-old. Then, in a Batman-like tragedy, he loses most of his family and discovers his father’s secret life as a cloaked agent of justice. Picking up the paternal mantle, as Ezio you move around Italy from city

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