Florence, the end of XV, the height of the Medici dynasty: on the streets walks the young Leonardo da Vinci, the genius Leon Battista Alberti, is finalizing a remake of the facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella, and the trees, of which very soon will be prepared for burning firewood libertarian Girolamo Savonarola, a young and does rustle their crowns. The air smells of oil paints and the sun. The young aristocrat Ezio Auditor da Firenze flits carelessly on the roofs and frightens pigeons: more than anything to excite his mole on the cheek of his girlfriend and disassembly with other similar turns reveals.
Run across the sky A few hours later his father and two brothers, Ezio upekut behind bars, and then executed - but it will be a couple of hours, and oh, Florence! Let these hundred minutes with a little last forever, let the sun still kiss your eternal roof, and working people in surprise throws his simple tool, as it sweeps past the eternal youth in dandified jacket - past and up to more humid beams and ceilings, along the ledges and balconies, the window grates and gutters ... great city, a heartless city, give this guy a little more time! Do not give: his father and brothers under the hooting of the crowd and chuckle a traitor be executed in the Piazza della Signoria, the sun will hide behind a long leaden clouds, and run across the roofs of the song of the soul will become a grim necessity. Ezio Auditor wear a painfully beautiful costume that hides his face ashen under the hood and start your own personal crusade for justice and revenge - this will be the same eaves and balconies, but the rate will be quite different. Posters with his own image and the promise of a reward for unruly head, archers on the rooftops and are ready to slander a penny of any scum beneath them ... it all must be destroyed, otherwise Ezio very soon will leave behind his parents. However, despite all efforts, Florence still throw insolent in their walls. He will remain alive, but a birthmark on the girl's cheek no longer worry about it - this city is tough, and for every step of the warm tiles, he will charge in full.
 | |  | A new model of "Animus" and its new operator - episodes in reality were not only entertaining, but also shorter. Hooray! | | Magical early years. Oh, not on what Ezio his talent wasted. |
And let everyone know! Tuscany, Forli, Venice, Rome: a better illustration of the philosophy of Assassin's Creed does not exist. On the first part should be forgotten completely - it was an experiment, test pen, the first hesitant steps. This Assassin's Creed did not appear until now! Passionate Italian speech - this is her real language, expressive patio and unbearable beauty palaces, plazas and churches - that her interiors. Let them go to hell with all these Desmond Miles, God forgive me, "Animus": the poetics of murder graceful movement of the blade, death is not the goal, but as an act of art - all this was possible only during the innocence of the average human soul.Even the villains are here conduct their business with unprecedented black chic: They betray an unusually elegant and fiercely debating with his doomed opponent from the gallows. Such villains want to punish equally effectively, preferably in front of the entire city under his side a dozen guards ... and, of course, Assassins Creed 2 simply can not do with the player differently. Everything happens exactly the way more than that: after a valid incident of retaliation Ezio deliver a fiery speech in which he will announce the townspeople were taken aback that it was hiding under the hoodie he was a survivor of a family member of viewership, and that no one will escape his righteous anger. Then a young man in two jumps will be on the next roof, and the cries of "Bravo!" Rush to Madonna Paola, principal Florentine courtesan who gives him shelter and advises to behave less bright (unless of course he wants to live another couple of days). Science, of course, preserve the boy will not go: yes, it in no time be able to mingle with the crowds ... but the exuberant character no-no, and yes will have an effect - and the next body they sprinkled the blood of the ancient cobblestones of the city. Less bright? In Florence? On these streets? Oh, come on.
 | |  | With a box of pictures in their hands and da Vinci at hand naturally feel a resident of Venice. And you look just as detailed street. | | Do not think why - so impressive gesture Ezio stealing from passers-by from his pockets. |
 | Horror |
In fact, interfere with getting acquainted with one of the best games of this year you can only one thing: the monstrous system of copy protection, to which this time resorted Ubisoft. So, the important thing: the game requires constant internet access. If for some reason the connection breaks off, the game will be on the forced break and will resume only at the time of signal restoration. It's not all: the game is tied to an account at a special online service, and saves all your files on a remote server - which makes the game with one copy on different computers virtually impossible. Authentication is also done online - so you can safely say that these anti-piracy measures gaming industry has never seen, even considering the relatively recent examples of GTA 4 and Bad Company 2. The seventh of March, by the way, servers, Ubisoft did not stand a custom activity, and fell, thus depriving the legitimate owners of Assassin's Creed 2 opportunities to continue playing. On the one hand, it's all very sad ... but then again, that's exactly what brought the much-loved by our compatriots torrents and sites with pirated releases. Accuse Ubisoft of inhumanity can be any number, but before that it is desirable to recalculate the amount of illegal software on your own hard drive.
Lump The scope of work undertaken creators AC2, beyond all imaginary limits: as compared with the average Hollywood "Avatar" - so, a minor episode, a Florentine (training, in fact), the episode easily puts the blades last vision you biopic.You can talk about details until the last brick re-established Italian town, and you can talk about the thousands of extras scurrying for him - and in small groups and individually, we can speak about the characters and dialogue ... but just no words experienced sensations, in fact, not describe. After Italy and then came out not exactly what it was - but exactly what we would all like to see her (as France in our "Three Musketeers"), and Italians then - pretty often colorful artists, tradesmen, peasants, one ... In short, the classic fictional inhabitants of the Mediterranean, and indeed the whole drama - one big cliche, the historic stamp on the box ... But just the way it should look like an interactive tour of the Italian Renaissance. This is like animated paintings of Botticelli and Carpaccio, a perfect world, a better world! And in fact the most important thing: besides the fact that Assassin's Creed 2 is currently the most beautiful computer game, she is also one of the most interesting games.
 | |  | Venice - city of tall buildings, then run across the roofs should be cautious. | | In other games are trying to get rid of the labels on the screen in Assassin's Creed continue to show all the way to the location of the keys. Very useful, it must be admitted. |
Wind and Night At sverhudachno selected key here is imposed multiple layers of interaction with the player. First - these are the animated pictures: stun from what you see is big enough to at first just walking along the winding streets, forgetting everything. The second plan - this volume, the boundaries of each of the locations Assassin's Creed by today's standards are ridiculous, but owing to the fact that any wall or any fence - this is not an artificial constraint, and can easily overcome the obstacles, the levels of the game seem to be truly enormous. Sometimes here you can find some guy who offers a run on a dare - who is faster ... and, strange to say, this painted in Florence, painted in this Rome, there is no random architectural element. The so-called free running corresponds to a unique button: holding her, be a few seconds with the grace of deer fly over Venice without the slightest effort, looks and feels everything is absolutely fantastic. Such thing as a "ceiling" for Ezio Auditor does not exist in principle.
The third plan - story line. What initially looked like a cute anecdote, with each new job is getting darker and darker. One of the most powerful moments - the invasion of the city nightlife and the murder of a scoundrel Vieri: This combination of multipass ends in one of the city towers, and when Ezio furious enemy starts to beat them with selected Italian obscenities, his uncle suddenly puts his hand on my shoulder and asked to show to the fallen respect. Around - the darkness, somewhere at the bottom of the guards are still struggling with a detachment of auditor, remained behind tall towers with strange symbols on the masonry walls and gloomy urban neighborhoods. Suddenly comes the understanding that the game ended: then everything will be very serious, and all this talk about a long road and the frightening discoveries to which it may perhaps not so preposterous. Mother still said nothing and spent whole days in his room, an unexpected one-eyed Leonardo carries ancient manuscript, in conversations enemies are increasingly sounds terrible word "Templar".From the perspectives of some point simply breathtaking: it does not happen, it's too much even for this game!
 | |  | Ezio as Altair, can summon to the aid of members of different groups - the thieves, for example, and courtesans. | | Auditor tenure improves here on this screen. The brothel was built, it remains to dig a well, and can thrive. |
| Bonuses |
In the PC-version of Assassin's Creed 2 includes two additions, which were not in the original console version of the game. One of them adds to the game world is a vast area of Florence, the other - the storyline in the town of Forli, and the ability to use a prototype of a flying machine by Leonardo da Vinci in free mode. The developers do not preclude the emergence of new additions and the original downloadable content for Assassin's Creed 2 in the near future.
Son of a banker But beyond this life as a revolutionary Ezio filled with thousands of daily affairs: interacting with other members of the underground (you can hire to create a group covering), buying the necessary things in all sorts of shops, repair of ammunition replenishment of medicines. The Doctor will sell the drug, a tailor - a new suit, a blacksmith restore leather armor, and a painter, if you're lucky, a lot of money will part with a detailed map of the area. Also, you need to take care of the family estate, where forced to hide who left Florence Auditor Jr.! At first, it is quite dark and neglected, but if you do not feel sorry for funds for the renovation and decoration, with time villa transformed into a palace. Proper family's housekeeping will receive a discount from merchants and a certain amount of regular income - the financial issue in the Assassin's Creed 2 in general is one of the most important. Need money, and you need a lot of money: their main part is given as rewards for completed missions (both primary and secondary, of which tens), but not bad can get hold of and treasure chests, hidden all over Italy. And, you can go through the pockets of opponents (as well accusingly at this point on you will be looking to urban audience!) And just rob onlookers - a large revenue it will bring, but sometimes it helps to produce a florin or two. These florins a moment of danger can throw right and left around him, thus creating artificial "cork" in the narrow lanes - on a similar trick, by the way, being not only simple townsfolk, but also threatening the guards.
 | |  | From Ezio and Leonardo turned to be surprisingly nice couple of friends. | | After several hours of playing catchy whitish costume will change to something more suitable profession Ezio. |
As if all this were not enough, Assassin's Creed 2 can boast yet another level of perception, in which the game today, too, has no equal: it is the level of secrecy. This is not about conspiracy and palace intrigue (this generally built all the storyline), and about some insane amount of hiding places and secrets. On the chest of gold we have said (their number, by the way, is about four hundred), but what about the pages of the old code - so mysterious that they are able to do the translation himself only da Vinci? How about twenty special characters hidden throughout the game, each of which is surprisingly tasty puzzle (for example, choose from the eight classic works of art five thematically similar)? How about a mystery that is filled with an estate auditor, hidden pictures, letters and documents? How about a survey of sites that offer stunning panoramic views? How about a hundred are not celebrated on the main card feathers (the award for the extraction of which is really worth the effort it)? All this and without unbanal game world to the limit saturates the action, players are constantly motivates him at any given time there are at least two goals - sometimes even a little angry: the plot tasks need to be vigilant to follow another character, but here, in two steps that sparkles, shimmers something interesting.
 | |  | With boats hero managed to the best of disgusting: looks like the movement of water completely unnatural. | | Guardians of the traditional for the genre, deaf in both ears: if the murder itself, they have not seen, at the sound of a falling body will not respond. |
Bygones Assassin's Creed 2 got so much better than its predecessor, that of Altair does not want to remember at all. Alas, the series was originally constructed in the form of a trilogy, so that none of Mr. Miles, neither of these idiotic synchronization-desynchronization, or from changing the main character in each new episode, we can not escape. Very certainly would not want to force the last Assassin's Creed, as slander evil tongues, took place in feudal Japan, or, God forbid, in the trenches of World War II, - but also parasitical in their own creative success, too, would like to avoid. Who knows, maybe the third part will surprise us as well as adventure Ezio Auditor, but like anyway, Ubisoft has announced a new game called Assassin's Creed 2 Episodes, in which a young Florentine again become the main hero. Site of action will be mostly Rome, besides the story line players for the first time in the history of the franchise will be available to a network mode.And it's very good news, whatever the fate of the show: you might not know about the universe, absolutely nothing - and Assassin's Creed 2 will still easily win your heart, in the case of the multimillion-dollar blockbusters unique precedent.
 | |  | And a spear pierced his chest dishonorable knight Ezio. Wait, no, not pierced - this is a bug. It happens, unfortunately, are often suspicious. | | Eagle Vision mode returns, but benefit from it is not so much. Is that the goal is to find help. |
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2004. The company's earnings for the year was a record 508 million euros.
2007. In the light leaves the first part of Assassin's Creed.
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