Assassin’s Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montréal and published by Ubisoft. It is the second major installment in the Assassin’s Creed series, and the sequel to 2007’s Assassin’s Creed. The game was first released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2009, and was later made available on Microsoft Windows in March 2010 and OS X in October 2010. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Aroni, Gabriele. “The Architecture of Assassin’s Creed II’s Florence.” Well Played (2019): 13.
Dow, Douglas N. “Historical veneers: Anachronism, simulation, and art history in Assassin’s Creed II.” Playing with the past: Digital games and the simulation of history 215 (2013).
Stobbart, Dawn. “Playing with Fiction: Ludology and the Evolution of Narrative in Videogames.” In Engaging with Videogames: Play, Theory and Practice, pp. 143-154. Brill, 2014.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Carvalho, Bruno HM, Gabriella GC Bertozzi, and Cynthia Correa. “Video games generating tourist demand: Italy and the Assassin’s creed series.” In Sustainable Tourism Development, pp. 305-326. Apple Academic Press, 2019.
Gregori, Rubén. “Hidden Blades and Blocks. Assassin’s Creed and Minecraft and Its Educational Applications in History of Art.” In INTED2023 Proceedings, pp. 8233-8236. IATED, 2023.
Karsenti, Thierry, and Simon Parent. “Teaching history with the video game Assassin’s Creed: effective teaching practices and reported learning.” Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education 14, no. 1 (2020): 27-45.
Other games in the franchise
Assassin’s Creed (5)
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (2)
Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry (2)
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation (4)
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (1)