I bought this game because I heard it had improved on the original, I thought it might just be a load of hype and that it would be repetitive again. However to my delight it has changed my view on the Assassins Creed series and keeps me wanting more.

It retains the vicious fun of the original when taking out guards and the variety of missions is a major improvement. The Templar missions and assassins tombs break the game up a bit if you feel like doing a puzzle also there are the 'glyph' puzzles which are a great addition. As to be expected the game is huge, each town has its own little side quests which are not essential to complete the game but if you want 100% be prepared to spend the hours finding treasure, doing contract killings or racing thieves.

My only qualm with the game is the Lute players and idiotic merchants who carry boxes, these are designed to draw attention to you but when doing a mission where you have to follow someone these really get annoying.

However this is a small detail in such a brilliant game which i would recommend to anyone.