Assassin's Creed II - Game of the Year Edition (Europe / Sv / No / Da)
Xbox 360
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Reviewed in 2010
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✪ Reviewed on February 15, 2025
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The Game of the Year edition bundles the original ACII with its essential narrative DLCs including the Battle of Forlì and the Bonfire of the Vanities. It is the finest way into the Ezio saga, best devoured in one go.
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Action Adventure1 player18+
Description
Complete Assassin's Creed II edition by Ubisoft Montréal and Ubisoft, May 2010. Includes the full game with both The Lost Archive DLC - Sequences 12 and 13 - integrated into Ezio's main Renaissance Italy narrative. All missions and original edition content plus additional sequences. Most complete version of the second Assassin's Creed.
Assassin's Creed II - Game of the Year Edition review
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Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
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Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
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Story
★★★★★
"Masterful"
Historical recreations of astonishing breadth, from the rooftops of Florence to the sunlit Caribbean: each era lives again with a dizzying care for detail. The architectural coherence and worked-over light turn History into a sumptuous playground. This visual ambition, vast and polished, defines the historical open world.
Signed by Jesper Kyd, the music blends ambient, Renaissance sonorities and ethereal choirs into a score of spellbinding elegance. The sublime "Ezio's Family", now an emblem of the saga, crystallises all the melancholy of Ezio's journey. This refined sonic richness, at the crossroads of old and modern, marks a peak of the series.
Witness to the murder of his family, a young Renaissance Florentine embraces the way of the Assassins to slake his revenge. Blending real history, Templar conspiracy and apprenticeship, the tale lends its hero a striking humanity. This vibrant fresco, carried by an unforgettable Ezio, redefined the narrative ambition of the series.
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Bundling the adventure with its additional sequences, this edition extends a formula of open-world stealth where fluid parkour and discreet assassinations work wonders. Roaming a living Renaissance remains a joy of movement. The combat stays forgiving, but the wealth of content and the ease of the acrobatics make this the most complete version to savor.
Assassin's Creed II Game of the Year Edition, the version gathering Ezio's peak and its downloadable chapters, forming the fullest form of this liked entry. Still accessible, its desirability rests on this status as the definitive edition bundling the added content rather than scarcity. The savvy pick for the best Assassin's Creed II in a franchise set, sought boxed.
Is Assassin's Creed II - Game of the Year Edition still worth playing in 2026?
Released on Xbox 360, this Game of the Year Edition takes the excellent Assassin's Creed II by Ubisoft and adds the downloadable sequences, filling two narrative gaps in the original. Renaissance Italy, from Florence to Venice, stays a sumptuous playground where climbing and melting into the crowd remains pure pleasure. Ezio's arc and his tools feed a fluid, generous formula. A few side mechanics have aged, but the whole holds up admirably. For anyone wanting to discover this major entry in its most complete shape, it is the obvious pick today.
