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Today, Ubisoft® officially announce the release date for Assassin’s Creed II, one of the most anticipated titles of the year. Assassin’s Creed II will be available on Xbox360™, PS3™ and PC in all UK stores from 20th of November 2009.

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This ultimate edition includes all Assassin's Creed II rarest premiums, including 3 in-game bonus quests, exclusive development team insight in the Conspiracy

The limited collectable figurine of Ezio wears an upgraded cloak. This is something Ezio only has access to in the advanced stages of the game.


Features:

• Rare “Master Assassin” upgrade Ezio figurine
  • This highly collectible figurine produced in limited quantities introduces a unique and powerful design of upgraded Assassin cloak that Ezio will only access in the advanced stages of the adventure.
  
  
• 3 in-game bonus quests: Enter & explore the most prestigious moments of the Renaissance. Reveal mysterious unique artifacts hidden within their walls.
  • Palazzo Medicis in Florence
    
  • Santa Maria Dei Frari In Venice
    
  • Arsenal Shipyard Warehouse In Venice
  
  
• Conspiracy book: this unique piece of art brings together exclusive insights on the game art, story and background direct from the developers of Assassin's Creed II. Secret faces are also revealed from the game's overarching conspiracy. The 64 page book comes with a finely crafted leather style hardcover and parchment finish pages.
  
• Game Soundtrack by Jesper Kyd (British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominee for "2009 Best original score in a game")
  
• All videos, behind-the-scene interviews and e-goodies about Assassin's Creed II
  
• Collectible black packaging featured with unique authentic holographic signature

Pre-order now.

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Assassin’s Creed II is the product of over two years of intensive development by the original creative team behind the Assassin’s Creed brand. In a vast open world environment, the game invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who’s been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy. Ezio’s subsequent quest for vengeance plunges players into a captivating and epic story that offers more variety in missions, surprising and engaging new gameplay elements, diverse weapons and a profound character progression that will appeal to fans of the original Assassin’s Creed as well as entice players new to the brand.

Below is the latest developer diary;

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Today Ubisoft detailed a panel around Assassin’s Creed II to be held on July 23, 2009 from 1:45–2:45 p.m. in Room 6A at Comic-Con in San Diego. The panel entitled “Assassin’s Creed II: Video Games and Hollywood Converge” will touch on the evolution of entertainment creation and distribution while highlighting the bridge between video games and film. Panel hosts will be Yannis Mallat, chief executive officer at Ubisoft Montreal and Pierre Raymond, founder and chief executive officer of Hybride Technologies, the visual effects studio behind 300 and Sin City, along with special guest Corey May, Assassin’s Creed II video game scriptwriter.

Recently, during the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, Ubisoft announced production at Hybride Technologies on a series of short films based on the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II video game. The Comic-Con panel will include a discussion of the production of these short films, a viewing of a teaser video showing new shots from the filming and development of the short film series, as well as the first public demonstration of the Assassin’s Creed II video game.

“Ubisoft has detailed our vision for convergence over the past two years. Now, at Comic-con, we are exclusively revealing one of the first building blocks to this strategy: Assassin’s Creed II: Lineage,” said Yannis Mallat. “We’ll be discussing the links between the game and the short film series with some of the key players of the project. We are thrilled to be able to share the results of our efforts with the Comic-com audience.”



ABOUT ASSASSIN’S CREED II:

Assassin’s Creed II is the product of over two years of intensive development by the original creative team behind the Assassin’s Creed brand. In a vast open world environment, the game invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who’s been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy.

Ezio’s subsequent quest for vengeance plunges players into a captivating and epic story that offers more variety in missions, surprising and engaging new game play elements, diverse weapons and a profound character progression that will appeal to fans of the original Assassin’s Creed as well as entice players new to the brand. Assassin’s Creed II is scheduled to launch on November 17, 2009 for the PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PC.

The short film series, entitled Assassin’s Creed II: Lineage will be released for Holiday 2009. Three short movies will focus on the story of Ezio’s father, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, will preclude the Assassin’s Creed II storyline and will offer fans insight into the Assassin’s Creed II storyline and characters.

For more information about Assassin’s Creed II, please visit www.assassinscreed.com.

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Learn more about how Ezio will interact with the different groups of people in Assassin’s Creed 2 such as thieves, courtesans and mercenaries.

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Assassin's Creed 2 expands the saga of Assassin's Creed, introducing a new era, new gameplay and new characters. Today, one of those new characters is revealed, as is who will be voicing him!

Take a look here to find out who!

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Today Ubisoft announced that well-known British humorist and author Danny Wallace will be cast as one of the key roles in Assassin’s Creed II. The voice and likeness of Wallace will be cast for the character of Shaun Hastings. A pivotal character in the game, Shaun will serve as a historian, guide and source of information for the player as he proceeds through the game.

Danny Wallace is most recognised as the author of critically acclaimed books including Join Me and Yes Man. The latter was turned into a Hollywood movie starring Jim Carey in 2008, whilst more recently this year his latest book Friends Like These has been released in paperback. In recent years, Danny has also been involved in a variety of different ‘projects’ from searching the globe for robots and creating his own country in central London, to more sedate celebrity activity such as appearing on the Jonathan Ross show and writing a regular column for award-winning lifestyle magazine ShortList.

“When the UK suggested Danny to us, we were completely open to the idea. Danny has been fantastic to work with, and his manner and particular style of humor has worked out perfect for the role of Shaun” said script writer Corey May. Speaking on his own involvement in the game, Wallace said “Going right back to my days of working on Sega Power, I’ve always been a keen gamer, and being involved - and actually being in a game like Assassin’s Creed II is amazing! I have to say, I’m rather excited”


ABOUT ASSASSIN’S CREED II:

Assassin’s Creed II is the product of over two years of intensive development by the original creative team behind the Assassin’s Creed brand. In a vast open world environment, the game invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who’s been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy.

Ezio’s subsequent quest for vengeance plunges players into a captivating and epic story that offers more variety in missions, surprising and engaging new game play elements, diverse weapons and a profound character progression that will appeal to fans of the original Assassin’s Creed as well as entice players new to the brand.

Assassin’s Creed II is scheduled to launch on November 20, 2009 for the PLAYSTATION® 3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PC.

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Today at GamesCom 2009, Ubisoft announced that the Assassin’s Creed II White Edition will be available exclusively at GAME.

This follows the recent announcement of the Black Edition, with both available for pre-order now.

Assassin’s Creed II White Edition – Available at GAME at £59.99 (£49.99 on PC)

This Limited Edition of the game will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, and Includes:

- An Ezio collectable statue (20 cm / 8.5 inches tall)

- An unlockable in-game bonus quest within the walls of one of the most mysterious monuments of the Renaissance: The Santa Maria Dei Frari church in Venice!

Assassin’s Creed II Black Edition - Available exclusively at Play.com at £69.99 (£59.99 on PC)

This Extremely Limited Edition of Assassin’s Creed II comes packaged in a collectors box and will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. It Includes:

- 3 unlockable in-game bonus quests

- A “Conspiracy Book” behind the scenes artbook

- The game soundtrack

- A rare “Master Assassin” Ezio black figurine

Exclusive in-game quests can only be found in the limited editions through using a single-use code to unlock the content in-game. An online connection is required to activate the in-game quests

Each quest will offer a unique gameplay experience within the walls of the most secretive monuments from the Italian Renaissance such as the Medici palace, Venice arsenal shipyard or the Santa Maria Dei Frari church Be one of the exclusive few that will discover for themselves the secrets hidden within...

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The following video is an interview with author, TV presenter, and Assassin's Creed voice actor Danny Wallace. It was filmed it at the Develop Award winning Side Studios during Danny's voice sessions a few weeks ago.

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