Loving the free games, still waiting for one to go free that I don't own though! :P

How long are these on ssale? 

They're on sale until July 31st.

http://majornelson.com/

PLUS the following Assassin’s Creed franchise content will be on-sale for the rest of July.

Free game, nice! I'll DL it later tonight. Only own AC1, so it'll be nice to try AC2 for free.

Well at least you have digital rights now. So you can download it and play it on any 360. :P

Not really. It's set in a different time zone altogether and has a new character. Also, i didn't like the 1st but the 2nd one is much better i think in just about everyway. But you might as well try it since it's free on Xbox now. 

I just didn't like the multiplayer they added in Brotherhood and beyond, i though it was boring and frustrating and so a waste of time. To me, Assassin's Creed is better as a singleplayer game but by adding multiplayer, they are wasting time and money to me. They could of used that effort to make a better story in singleplayer and ensured the bugs were fixed. So yes, Assassin's Creed II would of not been so good if it had multiplayer, as it was an unnecessary add on that didn't really fit with the series. I didn't even bother with multiplayer in Assassin's Creed III because i hated it in the previous 2 games. For certain games, multiplayer works really well but in Assassin's Creed it felt so unnecessary and tacky. 

I had a ton of fun with it. It was actaully different and felt refreshing.