This time around, the action moves to 15th-century Renaissance Italy, and you play Ezio Auditore, a young Florentine playboy who witnesses the stitching up and hanging of his father and brothers, and becomes an assassin in search of revenge. T he first Assassin's Creed flattered to deceive: lavished with praise pre-launch for its moderately cerebral Crusades-era Middle East setting, its graphics and its free-running engine, it was let down by gameplay that proved repetitive and often downright tedious.Ī suitably contrite Ubisoft is adamant that it has addressed that problem in Assassin's Creed 2 and, indeed, it isn't lying.
