Assassin's Creed II - First high-quality screenshots

Italian site MondoXbox published 14 Assassin's Creed II screenshots, some already seen in the GI scans and some new, but all in better quality than the previous scans.

[Lucreto]

It sure took a graphical leap.

[PatDH]

Pun intended or not? :)

[JeffGUNZ]

I am finding myself to be more and more excited about this game. I hope it avoids the repetitiveness of the last one.

[locos85]

I hope we will be able to have change of clothes. It looks too obvious when you walk around the assassin's clothes..... that you are an assassin, even though it looks badazz

[AssassinHD]

That is just silly. Everyone knows that putting your hands together and tilting your head down is the perfect camouflage. It beats the heck out of Superman's glasses.

On topic: I am glad to see he made up that day he missed in Assassin school when they were teaching swimming skills.

Edit: To the person who disagreed: Seriously you should try it. I get into military installations all the time with the patented monk praying camo trick.

[Lucreto]

@1.1 no pun intended but I can see why you would think that.

@1.3 I thought I read somewhere he is a master of disguise. He be able to change his clothes and blend in to a party, assassinate the target and make a quick escape.

[LastDance]

I hope we get a better Protagonist this time. Desmond is the biggest girl ive ever seen. Seriously that guy whines like he is at the doctors with his mum. He's not even a well rounded or interesting character. He is just a wuss.

Alas, I was hoping he would die.. or atleast make out with that actor chick.

[Toenado]

about time he can swim. In the first one I wondered why one of the worlds most highly trained assassins was unable to even doggy paddle.

@1.8
He doesnt have all the weappons until later in the game, and equipment weight hasnt prevented other games from allowing the character to swim. Also the weight of his equipment doesnt prevent him from scaling buildings, and rooftop jumping like an acrobat.

[AssassinHD]

I always just attributed it to his heavy boots, the metal in his gloves, his longsword, his shortsword, and the plethora of throwing daggers he carries around. Honestly he should not be able to swim.

[AssassinHD]

You make a very reasonable argument. You are right he should also not be able to perform all of those acrobatic feats with that heavy gear on. I guess he really did just miss a day in Assassin school when they were teaching swimming.

[Raul_7]

I still loved it, and i am more excited for this one as well.

[Pika-pie]

Hes got a flying maching :)

[WhittO]

i cant even see the images ! lol, they wont load :(

but looking at the thumbnails looks great !! the first one was great looking aswell, just hope they improve stuff like AI, as you play through what the crowd say begins to drill into your head as they only have an option of like 3 sayings haha.

[DaTruth]

I just realized the entire first game was played in the day! That's really crappy; He does a whole bunch of assassinations in one day!

They need a whole new engine.

[shadow2797]

If you're having trouble viewing the images, turn off the translator. It isn't needed.

There are some impressive images in there, but there are a few "meh" ones as well. I can't wait to see it in motion.

[thereapersson]

Uncharted 2 might have some close competition in the graphics department.

edit:

OK, if you're going to disagree, please explain yourself in a mature fashion...

[koehler83]

In a mature fashion:

These screenshots are tiny and can't be used to judge the graphical quality of the game running real-time in 720p on a moderate to large screen.

Uncharted has given us many full res shots as well as in-game footage. Uncharted 2 is clearly running at a much higher poly count and the textures are superb.

Assassin's Creed II will likely look awesome, but comparison to U2 is unwarranted until they have the balls to release some 720p footage. (preferably for all platforms)

[thereapersson]

Well thanks for the post, at least. It's more than most people can manage to do.

Bubbles for ya

[DelbertGrady]

I'll keep it simple. You don't compare multiplat games to PS3 exclusives on N4G, no matter how good they might look.

[PotNoodle]

http://playstation.joystiq....

It looks great, but i don't think Uncharted 2 has much to worry about.

(PS: No i wasn't one of the people who hit that disagree button ;))

[PatDH]

I prefer koehler83s reply over yours.

Go moan somewhere else. "Boohoo N4G has more Sony fans boo hoo i'll post this on as many N4G articles as I can be bothered to."

Sure, it may have more Sony fans.. but it's not like there's no websites that lean to the Microsoft/360 way of things either.

Just get over it.

Anyway.. got the first game. Enjoyed it even though it was repetitive but it sounds like AC2 won't have that problem.. I hope :)

[Pennywise]

Soda instead of being the negative person you always are, why dont you stop and think to yourself WHY there is more Sony fans than 360 fans.

[Perjoss]

WARNING: just my opinion...

I really liked the effect used in uncharted to make nathan's clothes look like he just came out of water, was very nice. apart from that, graphically I thought the game looked good, but not amazing.

[ultimolu]

Oh dear, someone get that Soda a tissue.

[Why dis]

I find it funny that you even say Uncharted is the milestone that needs beating when uncharted isn't the graphical milestone unless you are talking about whats on PS3 alone which is still stretching it with even the multi platform games.

[Pennywise]

Why Dis, while we dont expect more than mindless drivel coming from your mouth... even you have to be laughing about how uninformed and WRONG your comment is.

[butbutbuttehcell]

Which gave this kaohler bell a keyboard then?

"These screenshots are tiny and can't be used to judge the graphical quality of the game running real-time in 720p on a moderate to large screen."

Right so here you're saying these screenshots are too small to be able to judge.

Uncharted has given us many full res shots as well as in-game footage. Uncharted 2 is clearly running at a much higher poly count and the textures are superb.

And now you're saying that Uncharted 2 is clearly running at a much higher poly count. Correct me if I'm wrong but you just said you couldn't judge Assassins 2...so how can you tell? The Uncharted 2
textures are superb, that much is true, and the graphics do look amazing don't get me wrong, but don't say stupid things like 'you can't compare the two' because of the screenshot quality of the non ps3-exclusive then say 'the ps3-exclusive is clearly much better looking'

Game looks sweet tho, hopefully there's a lot more variety cos if there is this game will be incredible.

[Arnon]

You mean on this site? Well, that's because this site is mainly consisted of international countries.

In the world? I don't think there is, considering the sales numbers.

On topic:

I believe Assassin's Creed II will look better than Uncharted 2. Everything that I've seen in my Game Informer proves that to me. And I own both the Uncharted 2 and AC 2 GI's.

The level of detail in AC 2 when they're comparing in-game screenshots to real-life photos blew my mind. In fact, the first screenshot looked nicer than the photo.

[IcarusOne]

Uncharted 2 is certainly shaping up to look beautiful. But my problem with the first was with how it played. It was fun but not stellar. Conversely, while a lot of Assassins Creed was repetitive, the core gameplay of free-running and the fighting engine were so tight, so expansive and rewarding that I practically forgave all other failings. Kind of the opposite of my reaction to Uncharted, which was so loose and twitchy and clunky that I almost lost interest in finishing it entirely.

Ironic that the PS3 cult, who seemed to pioneer the phrase "There's more than just graphics!" are now obsessed with how pretty their games are starting to look.

I'm much more excited about AC2.

[JBaby343]

I disagree with you and would actually completely switch what you said. I thought Uncharted played very well and the controls were very good. The first Assassin's Creed however gave me problems at times like trying to switch weapons during combat where I would have to press the button for another weapon multiple times to switch and then would usually take a hit because of that and then I would frequently get tied up with on-screen characters when I did not want to. I'm hoping this one plays a little better and of course is not as repetitive.

I also find it ironic that 360 fans have moved from talking about graphics to now talking about gameplay and frequently try to bring down the gameplay of PS3 exclusives with Uncharted and KZ2 as frequent targets.

I'm more excited for UC2 but AC2 is looking good.

[thematrix1298]

Superb!

[techie]

He can fly/

[DelbertGrady]

Musketeer's Creed ftw?

[Toenado]

What else did people have to wear in Italy at the time?

[PatDH]

I'm guessing Levis jeans and turtle-neck sweaters. I kid :D

[DelbertGrady]

Not the place for jokes I see...

[Mikelarry]

if you look at image 11 it seems the bad guys are just as agile as you are hmmm seems your really going to have to be stealthy and only risk exposure if there isnt any other option.cant wait for this game

[PatDH]

Perhaps they're on your side? :O! Who knows..

Game is (from the tiny screenshots) looking pretty good :)

[Christopher]

You are correct. From GameInformer they said there would be soldiers who are unarmored and agile and able to follow you on the roofs while other soldiers who are heavily armored would be more dangerous in combat, but easier to evade.

[JustinSaneV2]

Aren't these just the screens that were posted in the latest GameInformer?

[II Necroplasm II]

No. Metal Edge

[Christopher]

As opposed to just holding onto soldiers from the first game.

I'm waiting to see what Ubisoft does. They say they've got tons of improvements, but will need to see them in action.

@JustinSaneV2: Some of them were in Game Informer, but some are new.

[KingKionic]

Wonder how more options ou have to be stealthy now.
Maybe a tree top? or coffin.

Ah ...coffin would be nice.

[Ninjamonkey82]

Good looking game hope it loses the repeativness form the first game.

[ultimolu]

Maaaajor graphics leap.

Looking good!

[Slime]

For the 360 at least. Like Assassins Creed before it, the PS3 version will suffer from reduced texture detail, framerate and so on so forth.

[micro_invader]

And how do you know what console they've taken these pics from, eh? they could be either from the ps3 or xbox360.

So shutup and GTFO, fanboy.

Anyway, yes the graphics look like they have gotten a boost, The water looks great in that screenshot with him diving. Can't wait for this :)

[ultimolu]

Har, har, har.

Joo so funni! Considering the game isn't even finished yet, lol.

[butbutbuttehcell]

"For the 360 at least. Like Assassins Creed before it, the PS3 version will suffer from reduced texture detail, framerate and so on so forth. "

If anything the PS3 had better textures, definitely not worse. Having said that, the framerate was factually worse. (Disagree all you want but I had both so I could actually compare)

[Bigbangbing]

I believe he can fly, I believe he can touch the skaaaay :P

[LinuxGuru]

what's the skaaaaay?

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

to make me or several people I know to even get interested in this game, yet alone to buy it.

The first AC was such a let down to me, unless this game gets a huge gameplay overhaul... spare me the graphics!. I won't be visiting this title!

[Pennywise]

Your comment is 100% on point. All the AC hype made me buy the game and I didnt even finish it. Horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE.

[Dnarbeis]

Like the sphere

[XPC HARDonE]

its got the pretty graphics, the parkour style climbing, and hopefully Ubisoft listened to what people did not like about the 1st one.

Peggle XBLA > Uncharted 2

edit: I'm assuming the disagree is for my comments on assassins creed II and not the peggle comment.

[likedamaster]

The irony in your comment. Bubbs up

[Javier19]

Wow.. looking good, cant wait, despite it getting insanely repetative i thought the first game was awesome.

[SyluxPT]

Cant wait, i want a demo on xbl or psn :)

[Socomer 1979]

I hated assasins creed so much i just couldnt continue to play it.
i got headaches. it was so boring. I kept thinking why o why isnt there a new hitman game for me out there?

Agent 47 where are you ???

[xg-ei8ht]

When i click the pics, i get.

Did you know your baby could read at the age of 1.

ROFL.

Awsome baby graphics though. That nappy has 8xaa.

[likedamaster]

Click on the website instead, same thing appeared except pics do show up.

[kaveti6616]

DID YOU GUYS KNOW YOU CAN SEE THE IMAGES IF AFTER YOU CLICK THE THUMBNAIL, ANOTHER LINK COMES UP AND ITS LIKE IN ITALIAN OR SOMETHING AND INSIDE A BOX.. ""VISITA WWW.MONOBOX.COM" OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THE IMAGE LOADS LARGER.

[Freak of Nature]

is the main upgrade eye candy wise....

From all I have been reading on this game,they look to have addressed the issues of the first game. Plus added new gameplay options,like flight/swimming.Plus from reading the new information list they showcased in GI they look to be eliminating the first games biggest problem...."repetitive gameplay"....

What I notice from these new shots...

You can see "dynamic unified lighting going with day/night cycles",this alone makes it technically more impressive than AC1 already IMO...

Feeling real good about this game...

[kaveti6616]

The first AC is great but annoying because it's always day, as far as I've played it, so its gonna be great to play during the night, because we all know, assassin's work mostly during the night.

[Steyene]

The night time stuff will be awesome, hopefully Ubi has had a look at games like Thief for the night fights, in which knife fights will occur.

If the graphics are the only thing that received an overhaul, I still will buy it simply because I loved the first one. Apart from the speed conscious soldiers, who if you went fast enough they'd cut you down for your own safety.

[Diselage]

Looking good, and if they're taking care of the repetitive feel it gets this game should be amazing.

[The_Zeitgeist]

Yea they really do need some more variety with the missions. Also they really need to work on the story. As in write one.

[KuroSe7en]

Can't view the full screen. But from the little snapshots, it looks great.

[sdm123]

Can not wait for the 2nd one to come out and this should be the icing on the cake !

[No Way]

Looks pretty.
I think AC is, still, one of the best looking games available, especially for a multi-plat game..

I, also, thought the game was good fun.
Sure, it was repetitive.
But, it never got old killing the guards. :)

[PS360PCROCKS]

Why so small?

[jay2]

This will be good if Ubi have learnt from their mistakes.

[Pricey]

nice though they look, I imagine most people can't afford the pc that produces them.