Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 2009

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100% COMPLETE
Covers all missions and side quests, including those exclusive to the White Edition of the game.
 
ALL SECRETS INCLUDED
Additional outfits, bonus weapons, achievements & trophies, hidden feather locations, and Glyph puzzles solutions – yes, it’s all in here!
 
SUPER-VISUAL WALKTHROUGH
Mandatory actions are covered on the left-hand page while the right-hand page presents in-depth, advanced briefings plus side-quests. With detailed overview maps, the Walkthrough is perfect for both newcomers and die-hard completionists.
 
EXTENSIVE STORY RECAP
Complete series synopsis, with astounding insights on the most cryptic mysteries of the plot.
 
REFERENCE & ANALYSIS CHAPTER
Presents every aspect of the game design focusing on practical, high-level information: discover all of Ezio’s special techniques, guards’ weak spots and behavior patterns, equipment stats, and much, much more…
 
HIGHLY DETAILED MAP POSTER INCLUDED
 
ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS!
 
SUITABLE FOR USE WITH ASSASSIN’S CREED® II ON XBOX 360®, PLAYSTATION®3 AND PC

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (November 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761563237
• ISBN-13: 978-0761563235
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous and very helpful, November 18, 2009

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Michael J. Marziale (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide (Paperback)

This is what a game guide should be. Beautifully put together, this guide is full of pictures, maps, and illustrations. The guide starts with a nice game overview section that gives you some basic pointers, explains core concepts of the game, goes through controls, etc. Basically, it brings you up to speed on the game in a clear and concise manner. After that, it moves into your standard walkthrough, with lots of illustrations and maps. It is very easy to follow without spoiling the game. Of course, perhaps the most important part of an Assassin's Creed walkthrough is help finding all of those pesky collectibles throughout the game, and this guide takes care of you there.

Bottom line, get the guide. It is beautifully designed and executed, and it will simplify your life and add to your enjoyment of this game. This one isn't as essential as a guide for Oblivion, for example, but it is still well worth picking up.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a Player's Guide Should Be, November 23, 2009

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Lang M. Ho "Just Another Guy" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Official Guide (Paperback)

Simply put, this is quite possibly the best player's guide I have ever purchased. If you haven't played the game all the way through yet, continue reading at your own risk. I describe elements of the game you may or may not prefer to discover as you play through it. you have been warned.


It starts off with a few short explanations on controls and maneuvers. I particularly enjoyed this because I found the AC2 game manual to be lacking.

The walk-through is very well put together. Each time you enter a ewn city it gives a map with codex pages, viewpoints and the game's database landmarks. For the walkthrough portion, all the left-hand pages are the main storyline and all the right-hand pages are general information of interest and trivia. It also lists the free missions (assassination contracts, races, couriers tasks, beat-up assignments, etc.) at the end of each memory sequence.

The Reference and Analysis section describes, general tactics and strategy, weapon and armor statistics, shop inventory and enemy archetype strategies. also incredibly useful information once you're looking into a deeper mastery of the game.

Last but not least-if you're like me it's the reason you're considering the guide-the extras. Achievements, unlockables, secrets and collectibles (which are broken down by DISTRICT, not city and include a screen shot of their locations). The collectibles' locations shown in the guide are limited to the glyphs and the feathers on the maps broken down by district. This makes sense since map markers for the treasures and codex pages can be obtain on your map in the game. The extras section ends with story recaps for AC1 (which includes a description of all the crazy crap on the walls at the end of AC1), a story recap for AC2 and solutions for all the glyph puzzles.

Great game aside, the guide itself is a terrific piece of work and will hopefully serve as a model for future guides as to what a true player's guide should be.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Guide, December 26, 2011

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VinnyB - See all my reviews

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I bought the guide to play along with the game. I played the first game with good success so I figured Id tackle the second one. The guide was a great help with listing where all the hidden goodies were. Id buy it again if I had too. It was worth it.