Assassin's Creed 2 Teaser Hits the Net

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Dan Webb

Those of you who've been around here more than 5 minutes should already know my stance of teaser trailers ... "confusing waste of time," but you must admit, they do the job they were set out to; they spark conversation about the product in question, and this teaser is no different.

Half of the conversations will include some kind of "wtf" paraphrase and the others will revolve around some crazy plot that is so ludicrous that we drift off into a world of fantasy.

Feel free to pick it apart, although there isn't much on the surface other than Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, so you'll have to dig deeper.

 

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  • omg
  • Meh, Assassin creed 1 sucked...
  • Oh my god I have been waiting for this for so long!
  • no it didn't
  • it didn't suck, it was just boring as hell chasing down flags, which i am happy to say i didn't complete any of those achievements.
  • Interesting... I love this game and I have always been interested in Da Vinci's drawings, pretty cool, I'll keep on the lookout for more info on this for sure.
  • I loved the original Assassins Creed. Yes, I know, it was kind of repetitive. But I didn't mind since the things you were doing were awesome. I wonder where they are going to take this one though. Is he still going to go back in time with his memories or are the going to make it modern? Either way... can't wait!
  • Could it take place in Italy? Who knows...
  • i never got round to completing the first one
  • Well, the first game was very repetitve but the story was intresting.
  • So I'm at work right now without any sound, is there some dialog or am just missing music? Because I must say without any sound it's kind of lame.
  • I Loved the first game, yeah Ill deffinitly get the 2nd.
  • hmmmmm Did that clip have anything to do with assassin's creed at all? lol Anyway i cant wait for this game. Its gonna be awesome!
  • it may have been repetitive but it was amazing nonetheless, here's hoping that the second game doesn't end on a lame ass cliffhanger like the last one.
  • @#9- No Dialogue, just some music. It really reveals nothing...
  • All I can say is Assassins Creed 2 Modern Warfare.
  • I am very excited for this game and I think Renaissance Italy would be a perfect setting for this game. Anyway, can't wait to learn more about it.
  • its a teaser not a trailer calm down ur not meant to see anything worth while but it was preety good if u actual pay attion to the video
  • wtf its probably going to be about planning to kill jesus or something lol jk webb is hilarious
  • just something random to work with
  • worst debut trailer ever....
  • I enjoyed the 1st one. I most certainly will keep an eye on this.
  • That was sweet. I loved the first game. I know it was repetitive but like #5 said the things you were doing were so awesome I easily got over it. Thank God. I hope its in Italy since I heard French Revolution and that sounds gay.
  • Finally, I loved the first one and I can't wait for this one.
  • @13... yes, it did. look at the skeleton as the picture moves to the right. you can see it has a hidden blade and some sort of device attached to the bone. also when the video first starts, you can see climbable object, much like in AC1.
  • By the looks of that its set in Italy during the renaiisance, probably something to do with divinchi being an assassin seen as the vitruvian turns into the creed symbol or divinchi was a templar and had spent most of his time tracking the assassins down, hense the research. Maybe the templars are after another god like artifact that made Divinchi so intelligent for the time period. Cant wait to find out more, will be keeping an eye out for this!
  • AC2 is gonna be freakin awsum, but seriously...what was the point in that teaser trailor?
  • I hope it is during the French Revolution and we get to kill Napoleon!! That would be awesome.
  • stupid trailer.. sweet game tho hopefully this one will be just as baddass and less flags to collect =]
  • Assassains Creed 1 was okay but if ubisoft fixes the problem from number 1 this should be great.
  • meh, not enough to excite me...
  • Assassin´s Creed 1 was a Great Game! The 1000 GS took a long time, but the Game was really fun. Part 2 is already sold!
  • Umm I noticed no one said anything about the wing hanging off the Vitruvian Man, you can see a wing on him and the hidden blade, so maybe we'll have the ability to fly with some sort of bat wings? That would be amazing beastly!
  • i loved number 1, so i will be keeping an eye on this number 2
  • #4 it didnt suck, it was awesome :D But I cannot wait for this game :D!
  • Looks interesting, but lol at the Da Vinci drawing at the end where they removed the mans cock.
  • Meh... this shit better not be repetitive or it's an instant FAIL.
  • Wow.
  • Go to the official website....there is some secret stuff on there, after the trailer (plug in your webcam ;P it's important)
  • Well, I loved Assassin's Creed, so I'm probably going to break my rule and buy this on release day. The only thing this trailer did for me was confirm the rumors that this AC would take place in the Renaissance.
  • another teaser that separates the morons from the rest of us. all the bitchy comments are very familiar... *coughmordernwarfare2cough* but yeah, very excited about this... can't wait! ^^
  • WTF??? That didn't really make me want to talk about it. It would've been better if they had shown a new weapon go into a dude's eye and then it was like ASSASSINS CREED 2!!! I agree the first one was very repetitive but it was so much fun. No games have ever really had an awesome climbing system like that. Watch the limited collector's edition of how it's made, simply awesome. I hope this comes out this year!
  • I had rented assassins creed in the past. At first i was expecting repetitive boring horrible game play (the only reason I rented is because my friend said it was amazing). oddly enough I found myself greatly enjoying the game (i have not played a game this good since ocarina of time). the missions were not repetitive for me. maybe, because I always did the main three investigations to stay away from the repetitiveness although, i feel as though even if i did them all it wouldn't be repetitive. The story in my opinion is one of the best in video game history, until the end. The ending was horrible; let me put it this way imagine your halfway through war of the worlds and all of a sudden your taken out of the movie and some guy says hey we figured out how to destroy these things lets go loo
  • k for the thing we need to destroy them and then the movie ends. It wouldn't make for a very good movie. fortunately The game play was so fun that I can't wait for a sequel. Sorry it was too long.
  • I heard it was set in the 13th Century in France? Maybe Italy, Who knows! Could also be the renaissance period.
  • It's in the French revelution
  • Can't wait, I like the first.
  • Assassins creed didn't suck! It was great, Damn this video is interesting tho'
  • ill enjoy
  • Can't wait!
  • If this is set in Renaissance Italy, my girlfriend will buy me this game and watch it end-to-end. While I love the Arab/Crusader vibe of the first one (just started it), the Renaissance period is ripe for a game like this.
  • I'm with you on teasers Webb... I loved the first AC, even though it was repetitive and the 500+ flags blew. I'm torn on this one though, because of Ubisoft's actions lately. They've been pushing out games with more and more bugs and not fixing them. It's been almost 6 months now and not a single bug in Far Cry 2 has been fixed. I fear this game will ship full of bugs that never get fixed.
  • I enjoy seeing that everyone likes information spoon fed to them and about how AC1 was repetitive, what game isn't? Just naming two games off the top of my head Call of Duty and Halo, what do you do? Run around endlessly and shoot people. Just putting repetition into the proper light, which means it does not necessarily indicate a boring game.
  • As long as I can stab people in the face, I'm happy.
  • wtf? looks like a debut teaser to the da vinci code the video game.
  • omg Ive been waiting over 1 year for this.
  • It be set I believe in Rome and the Vietain City around 1600 to 1800
  • If you know video games at all then you will know that ac1 was the meer sh!t and one of the best games so far on the 360,but i guess #3 knows nothing since he most likely plays trash like madden and gears! ac2 will be mine upon it's release.
  • Yeah i'm hugely looking forward to this, but that teaser didn't tease me much. More annoyed me. MW2 was a good teaser. Halo 3 had a good teaser. Oblivion had a good teaser. This, whilst interesting could have been at least twice as long, and maybe some more info. :(
  • The drawings of the hands looks like you can crack some necks.... sweeet
  • I can't WAIT!!!! I would love one set in Egypt, but of course, this trailer ruins that thought! I am so excited though! I absolutly loved the first one!
  • Assassins Creed 1 was really repetitive and got bored of it quickly and hope this isn't I will get it anyway.
  • @13 yeah im pretty sure it did. Probably all been said earlier but at the beginning the was something that looked climbable, the skeleton had a hidden wrist blade moulded into it and afterwards it showed how it would be concealed (the way the hand was) and at the end the assassins creed logo with an eagle wing on either side
  • @13 The drawing of the man at the end fades to an assassin's blade, the diagram of a body had a blade attatched to the wrist, and the architecture resembled that of the first game.
  • Assassin's creed 1 was amazing and i enjoyed it very much. looking forward to take a tour through Assassin's creed 2's plot as well :)
  • @ #3 you suck
  • First one was pretty repetitive, but a lot of fun to play. Hope this one is a bit better.
  • Maybe he will have wings! I can't wait..another top notch fall season coming up!
  • mmhmm now this makes me wonder
  • #13, yeah, I know, wtf?
  • I'm calling that there's a glider right here right now Peace
  • i take it that this new game takes place in a new era?
  • #3 pretty much summed it up
  • People who don't understand what a teaser is are stupid.
  • You forgot to mention the last bit. On the website, at the very end, some handwriting is shown that is written backwards. It says "Game Informer 04/16/09"
  • i dont see why everybody is hating on this game the first one was awsome and im pretty sure this one is gonna be the same way i cant wait =]
  • They should have one take place around WWII where you have to kill Oppenheimer, etc. to prevent the creation of the atomic bomb. That invention changed the world for the worse far more than gunpowder and longbows. Second game should be cool though. It'll be a real game rather than a glorified game engine tech demo. ;)
  • mabey somthing to do with angles the dead coming back ?? theres alot of wings in it...i think its gonna be set in a new era. Cant wait another good year for games Bioshock 2, assasings creed 2 ,cod modern combat 2, batman, ...and more to come :)
  • cant wait for this game hopefully it varies abit instead of just talk and kill more missions!! :)
  • Ooooooh, can't wait for this game to be released! =D
  • Wow, uninformative much? Either way I loved AC 1 and will definatley be pre ordering this.
  • Looks good. Might be French Revolution, Renaissance, or something with just Da Vinci. I love how they block the penis out with white light though!
  • sweet baby jesus
  • I love the story line and game play of this series thus far, a bit repetitive but graphics were amazing even now imo, the teaser was just that... it showed nothing but at least it means more is on the way...LeWoot!
  • Wonder if Robert Langdon will show up in the lab.
  • Okay, its probably way too early to be coming up with plot theories, but I have to post it, or a little piece of me will die inside. First, it is almost certain that it has to do with Da Vinci. Da Vinci was also believed to be very involved with the templars, so we can be sure if he is in the game, he is on their side. He came up with some crazy ideas for his time, so maybe he is the templar's scientist, and he has discovered a way to replicate the pieces of eden. You, being an assasin must take him out before he gives the templars the ultimate power they crave. It may also have nothing to do with the first game and could possibly be a Da Vinci code copycat.
  • I've been waiting for this since I completed the first one. I'm eager to see where the story goes, and I'm excited to play this game.
  • this is off topic, but whered 86 get your gamer pic? PM me please.
  • oh cool nothing happened
  • Trailer did nothing to excite me, but enjoyed AC1. Do i buy when released, or wait 1 year and get it brand new for $C20 (?).
  • how is this related?
  • Forgive me if I'm way off base, but that trailer would have been a perfect trailer for the first game as well and look how that turned out...
  • There Should be some Modern Missions with those Assassins
  • Looks like renaissance Italy is the setting? If so... sweet.
  • Loved Assassin's Creed 1 and I'm going to love Assassin's Creed 2. Can't wait!
  • It took me about an hour and a half to collect all the flags because I got them throughout the game using a checklist, maybe we should consider doing that more often, eh?
  • Well it's about time! I've heard it's going to be set in Italy during the Renaissance and will allow the use of gunpowder and your character will swim.
  • @57 Once again JRAPOCALYPSE comes into the forums and talks shit about the games people play, yet he blocks anyone from seeing the games he plays. Gears is trash? Your a fucking idiot. AC1 was a good game but I wouldn't put it in the "best games so far on the 360" Again- quit talking shit to everyone on this site you mohawk wearing faggot
  • this game needs 2 b co-op multiplayer and it will b greater than the 1st one
  • want to see and want more story line detail
  • loved this game i just hope this one has more replay value
  • that video was the stupidest damn thing, the 1st game was alright, im hoping the 2nd one is better
  • Omg I Just Had A Nerdgasm
  • I hope they put in some of the stuff we saw in the end of part 1...Mayan/Inca temples and other south-american medievil stuff. Maybe they'll put this and that together and situate it around the time america was discovered?
  • I'm buying it when it comes out, weird trailers or not.
  • Assassin's Creed is the 1000 GS I'm most proud of. I loved the setting, stealth, and action of first one, and it was a welcome change of pace from the RPGs and FPSs I'd been playing at the time. I never had any technical problems with the flags or Templars, though I agree that both should be left out this time around. I am looking forward to this game, and I can't wait to jam a blade into a new set of poor, unsuspecting fools.
  • The Assassin's Creed storyline was very refreshing. I didn't expect such a deep and intriguing plotline from a game like this. Hopefully the last two games can fix the repetitive gameplay, though.
  • This is going to be epic, or else I will be very disapointed.
  • swwweeeeeeeettt! ive also read that assassins creed is ment to be a trilogy so triple awsome =)
  • I'm glad I borrowed ac1 from my friend it was crap and it was so repetitive it wasn't even funny This will likely be the same or hopefully better as this year's line up of games looks pretty bad for me anyway
  • also at #103 nerdgasm = LMAO that the awsomest thing ive ever heard ! hah
  • Haha a nerdgasm is what I had when I finally found the last of those damn flags from the first game... Hopefully they don't have too many of those damn things in the next one. Getting every single one of those really did my head in!
  • so basically, they filmed a piece of parchment for like 1 minute. AWESOME TRAILER
  • was there a hint of you get to fly in the game? or maybe glide
  • @13- It did have something to do with assassins creed. The vetruvian man had an Altair style wrist knife. Gonna be good, this and MF2 will rock
  • hmmm, a fly ability?
  • All of those images were Da Vinci Sketches. Omg, this is gonna be as lame a the Da Vinci Code. I thought it was set in the French Revolution not the Renaissance.
  • that was 10 seconds of fuck all
  • Sorry for the double post - but everyone speculating about "Flight" should be reminded of Altair's "Eagle Eye" or w/e it was called and also his many resemblances to an Eagle when jumping, his peaked hood his NAME. That wing does not mean you can fly. I guarantee it.
  • I think its much more than some people are seeing.. This 'teaser' leaves alot of unanswered questions.. short and sweet and its got people talking.. is that not what it is supposed to do?
  • lol Assassin's Creed 2:The Da Vinci Code.
  • Woops forgot! WTF!
  • Its probably been said, But i this vid is a little confusing but interesting. Assassins Creed 2, should be epic. First one, as i have read already, was repetitive, but amazing. Never has a game been so repetitive and yet, so aluring and amazing at the same time. Looks great and cant wait. On my "buy List"
  • i reckon it will be in either the french revolution or the age of great thinkers (1600-1700 italy)
  • Seeing has the first game was freaking boring i dunno...I'm very relutant :P
  • Awesome =] Thanks For The Trailer
  • BIT SHORT
  • Assassins Creed was alright, good story and graphics, but got repetative quick. Im not sure if im going to buy AC2, depends. Need more to find out, hopefully later they will spit up something to us.
  • I hate teaser trailers, but I can't wait for this game! I loved the first one and the second should be outstanding!!!!!
  • I got my 1000 in the first Ill be damned if i dont get it in the second.. LOVED #1. Sword Play was awesome
  • only good thing about the first game was the story. the combat/missions were boring, repetitive garbage. if ubisoft fixes that stuff, we'll talk.....
  • The 1st rocked despite being repetitive I will surely buy the second.
  • interesting...
  • looks k but not a fan
  • Teasers annoy me...
  • The first one was really fun! I'll probably get this.
  • Im with Webb on this one, WTF?
  • wtf!? I think for the first time that I was watching the Davinci Code jajajaja but is very interesting!
  • @ #86 Divinci was well known to be a heretic, how would a heretic be involved with the Templars in any way other than being slaughtered by them?
  • OMYDAYZ tbh i loved the previous game and by this trailer it looks liek were gonna be able to fly YEAH MUTHA FUDGE CAKE!!!
  • So Da Vinci was responsible for the arm blade then, and a winged flying machine. seems you go back in time in order to get him to invent these things, so the future will be more advanced. hmmmm
  • At first i din't really unnderstood...i was like da vinci?! wtf...but i think italy or da vinci got something to do with the assassins clan? don't know wich one.i guess well have to wait but i'll get it no matter what i just like it!
  • Looked like there was a set of fold-out wings there at the end, maybe they will incorperate da vinci's flight machine into it. Intsead of high spots you can have a lgider that folds out from your back?
  • I think this might be a message, maybe Da Vinci could've been like the person to start this branch of the creed and All the inventions we thought "were never made" were actually used by the creed.
  • Assasains Creed kept me entertained for a long time, and i still play it now, and on my last count completed it 5 times, just because i like to kill each person a little differently. Number two is going to amazing, is there any rough release date that Ubisoft have put out?
  • Well tht was shit
  • I'm really looking forward to the second one coming out. I was rather fond of the first one.
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