Assassin's Creed II

Turned the first game's climbing sandbox into the annualized checklist open-world Ubisoft formula.

Released 2009 Developer Ubisoft Montreal Publisher Ubisoft Platform Xbox 360 Genre Action-adventure Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Assassin's Creed II inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Waypoint Objective Marker ~~2001~~Systemic Climbable Surfaces ~~2007~~Social / Crowd Stealth ~~2007~~Free-Form Base Building ~~2009~~

The Assassin's Creed series in this dataset

2007

Assassin's Creed ~~2007~~

2009

Assassin's Creed II ~~this page~~

2013

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag ~~2013~~

2018

Assassin's Creed Odyssey ~~2018~~

2020

Assassin's Creed Valhalla ~~2020~~

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