As a massive fan of the original, I’ve been waiting for the next instalment ever since I stepped out of the Animus. Landing on American shores on the 17th November and PAL regions 20th November, thankfully we don’t have long to wait. Assassin’s Creed II is set in 15th century Italy between 1476 and 1503. The story follows the exploits of a new assassin by the name of Ezio which has him running around Venice, Florence and Tuscany in the same ‘open-world’ type game play as the original.

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This is not much of a video game trailer when you don’t see any glimpse of gameplay, but, here’s hoping to learn more about the game at E3.

Ubisoft released a teaser for Assassin’s Creed 2 this past Monday. However, aside from that teaser (which gives no hint at all as to what we might see in this new installment of the franchise), no other information has been released. The Assassin’s Creed website shows the teaser as well, along with some backwards writing at the end that looks suspiciously like “Game Informer 4/16/09.” Only time will tell if Ubisoft will release any more information in the near future, though the “Game Informer” message makes it highly likely that we’ll see something develop within the next week.

The teaser can be found here, at the Assassin’s Creed website or the youtube link below.