Italian setting will help Assassins Creed II pass original’s 9 million sal

[izaaz101]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

izaaz101 said:
It may or may not sell more, but if it does, I don't think I would attribute it to the setting being Italy. If people wanted to see Italy digitally (say that 5 times quickly!), they could use google earth or something of that ilk.

The difference is that in a game you can act in that setting and pretend you are in another age.

A medieval setting would work well set in a lot of countries, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Middle East, etc, but for a Renaissance setting Italy is almost a must, France and England could be good second choices, but more for late Renaissance - Mannerism era, when enough time had passed for the new ideas to spread, for example in France when Leonardo da Vinci and others were called there.

That's true perfectly true, but that's not the dev boss's reason for an increase in sales.