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The Ezio Arc is the best within the Assassin's Creed universe and it all starts right here with the birth of Ezio Auditore in Assassin's Creed 2
I've played this game on Ubisofts own platform prior of this review since I've always loathed using Steam for Ubisoft published game, but since they are and probably will add achievements to more of the older published games. I've decided to give it a go and purchased a bunch of older Ubisoft IP games that I hold very dear, including some of my favourites from the Assassin's Creed series but also Splinter Cell and Far Cry.
I've played Assassin's Creed 2 on the Playstation 4. I still have the retail CD/ROM somewhere stored from playing it on PC and I have played it digitally from Ubisofts own launcher Uplay back in the day.
This is a really great game that you can't skip at all if you're going to play the full Ezio trilogy, I've finished AC2 quite a few times but I felt that I had to refresh my memory of this game and its' story since I've chosen to do a full playthrough of the Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. With the reasoning being that I've never completed the full storyline nor found out about Desmonds part in all of this and how his side of the story, outside of the Animus develops.
Assassin's Creed II shines really bright. This game is both to the community and in my personal opinion; the peak out of all Ubisofts Assassin's Creed games.
Please note this important info:
I'm going to play all of my sessions for this game on my OLED Steam Deck, but o'boy getting the tinkering and troubleshooting correct and managing to get this old game to launch was a nightmare, such a bad experience but now that the game works without issues, I really have no complains about it nor the new Ubisoft launcher Ubisoft Connect because it runs great.
To be honest, you cannot really hold a grudge towards a 15 year old game. Both hardware and software in todays gaming industry has had a massive jump, counting from the release date of this game back in spring of 2010. You can't really have the mentality that older gen games are going to work on the first boot, tinkering is necessary regardless of OS and hardware.
If you think otherwise, you're an idiot.