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At least this assassin is a Renaissance man


By Scott Gardner

Assassin’s Creed II

PC, PS3, Xbox 360

It’s 1486 and the Italian Renaissance is blossoming. As the modern world emerges, prosperous city states like Florence and Venice, alight with art and architecture, are among Europe’s most magnificent cultural and economic centres. But it’s a time of infamy as well — the glittering domes and colourful carnival disguises hide appalling acts of corruption, greed and murder.

 

Betrayed by the ruling families, this villainy ensnares a young Florentine noble, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, branding him a criminal and a traitor. With the city guards he once commanded now hunting him, he falls in with thieves and mercenaries, planning his vengeance while learning a helpful new trade: assassin.

 

As Ezio’s skills improve, others see his value as an ally, including the canny Niccolò Machiavelli, a man so gifted in political strategy he’s virtually Machiavellian. And supplying our assassin-on-the-go with innovative weapons and gadgets — including double spring-loaded blades, a primitive musket for his sleeve, and a bat-like flying machine — is his new best paisan, one Leonardo da Vinci (you know, the guy from that Dan Brown book).

 

Set 300 years after 2007’s ambitious, but dull, Assassin’s Creed, series creator Ubisoft Montreal has addressed complaints about the original by adding more varied missions (200 of them), a stronger story, and making ACII a true open-world action game. Ezio can run anywhere, climb anything and kill anyone, all in meticulously rendered Renaissance cities — a beautiful backdrop for cutting throats, crushing windpipes and severing the odd spinal cord. Hey — who said history has to be dull?

 

Release date: November 17  

 

 

Tony Hawk: Ride

PS3, Wii, Xbox 360

Dude, buttons and thumbsticks are so 2008. Instead of playing the newest Tony Hawk game, you’ll ride it by standing on a wireless, skateboard-shaped controller. Equipped with accelerometers and infrared sensors, you rotate, tilt and lift the board to control your avatar, feeling that sk8r vibe without actually throwing yourself down a flight of stairs.

 

Release date: November 17  

 

 

LittleBigPlanet

PSP

Last year’s addictive, critically acclaimed puzzle-platform game bounces onto the PSP, with 30 new levels and all its creative tools intact. Guide the lovable Sackboy through a quirky 3D world of stitched-together craft material (felt, spools, construction paper), avoiding obstacles, solving puzzles and collecting items to build your own levels, which you can then share online.

 

Release date: November 17   

 


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