This is a few days old, but I thought it was worth posting. Sorry if somebody already did :3

http://au.gamespot.com/news/6210029.html

Ubisoft producer Sebastien Puel says sequel to 2007 action adventure boasts team size three times that of best-selling predecessor; 75 percent of original devs returned.

Ubisoft likely had high hopes for its Montreal studio's 2007 release Assassin's Creed, but even the publisher's forecasts were way off the mark when it came to the action adventure's actual sales performance. After a series of dramatic upward earnings revisions, Ubisoft revealed last May that Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 helped push the publisher to a 36 percent annual revenue hike, nearly tripling profits in the process.

The Vitruvian Man is serving as an outside consultant.

Unsurprisingly, then, Ubisoft is putting its full weight behind Assassins' Creed 2. Speaking to UK-based gaming site NowGamer, producer Sebastien Puel said that more than 450 people are at work on Assassin's Creed 2, with 75 percent of the original team having returned to work on the sequel. Putting that figure into context, Puel went on to note that the Assassin's Creed 2 team "is about three times the size of the team of the first game."

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O_o

I have a feeling this game is going to be something special.

i hope it is better than the first

Yeah... I felt that IGN was spot on with its review for AC (unfortunately they tarnished their credibility with GTA IV), it was absolutely, horrendously, repetitive.

but it will still suck

I'm really excited for this game; it looks like it takes the first game and improves on it in every possible way. And I'm excited that I won't drown whenever I touch water anymore!

From what I've read, it seems like they're trying to address the issues in the first game.

For starters, there's now 16 different mission types as opposed to what, 3 in the original? lol.

i never said the game was bad, i am just saying that i hope it is better.

i have a bad feeling about this game
the 1st one was average

IDK, I feel ripped off still from the first one, and I'll hate to give money to a sequel for an undeserving game... it's like they make a shitty game, get all the money from people like me, to make a good one... why should I have to pay twice to get what I should have gotten before?

Well with 450 people working on AC2, id expect to to be amazing.