Gaming blog Destructoid has scooped what are allegedly the first solid details on Ubisoft’s hotly anticipated adventure sequel, Assassin’s Creed 2.
The info comes via an email from a fellow gaming journalist who claims to have seen an early build of the game in action, revealing a few interesting tidbits including the game’s setting, which places us in Venice in circa 15th/16th century.
After describing the events that transpire in the footage, the sender goes on to state that the game will be shown at a trade show later this year, possibly the E3 Media and Business Summit in June. In terms of a release date, it looks like we can expect the game in late 2009/early 2010.
See below for a full round up of the footage – label it as a rumor for the time being, though, as nothing is confirmed as of yet.
"A trailer for lo and behold, assassins creed 2, all be it in production and not finalised i will explain what i saw
Venice 15th/16th century, The camera pans onto the city focusing on the hussle and bussle of daily life. think the civilians from assassins creed 1 but more interactive with each other. During this scene we see a man passing money to the hands of an attractive girl, (originally i didn’t notice this but was told by the rep that it does happen).
2 Men, a relatively large one and a skinny one step off a boat with a cohort of guards and proceed to a Square within the city, where a masked ball was taking place. Every ones dancing around, not much to say here other than that it was a ball.
The girl seen previously accepting the bribe, approaches the skinnier of the two men and takes him off to the crowd, for a dance, she was good looking, who’d say no. The camera spins around them centrally, but focusing on the dancers as a whole.
A guy comes out from the side, dressed in dancers garb and proceeds to stab this skinnier man in the neck, with what looks like the finger blade from AC1. Man dies spewing blood, garbble garbble etcetc.
The 2nd of the men, the fatter one, notices this and proceeds to run, after sending the guards after the protagonist. Who, by this time has reached the roof and runs parallel to the target who continues to run on the floor. The player jumps off onto the ground and the fat man stops. commenting on the fanciness of the jump.
Facing off, the fat man continues to speak. i cant quite recall the exact words but it was something along the lines of
"It was a shame that your mother had to die, she was a beautiful woman … Your father on the other hand, it was due to your arrogance that he died"
The protagonist then shoots at the fat Man with a bolt pistol, and the trailer ends."