A Family of Assassins: Bloodlines

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The combat system for the game has been updated and allows for further options, including disarming opponents. There are also more methods of hiding, such as diving underwater to break an enemy's line of sight while swimming, along with the blending mechanic being improved to allow Ezio to cloak himself with any group of individuals, rather than specific people.

Further along the game, Ezio is capable of learning new methods of assassination, such as ambushing individuals when hiding in haystacks or pulling individuals off buildings to fall to their deaths. Accompanying this, there are several new types of enemies, some more agile or stronger than others. As well as this, Ezio can use smoke bombs and hire groups of thieves , courtesans , or mercenaries to aid him in covering his tracks and avoiding contact with guards.

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Health in the game is measured via synchronization , and minor wounds will heal automatically over time, while major wounds must be healed by side-street doctors or with medicine purchased from them. One new feature includes a new system known as notoriety , which, depending on his behavior, current location, and current mission, Ezio will become more recognizable by citizens of the city, specifically guards.

When the notoriety icon is empty, Ezio is known as "incognito" and may travel through the city as he pleases. As the player behaves in more "socially unacceptable" ways or due to the consequences of a particular mission, Ezio will become more noticeable by the guards and more likely to be pursued by them.

Notoriety can be decreased by bribing city heralds , assassinating corrupt city officials , and removing wanted posters. The level of notoriety is set within each city, so that while Ezio may be completely unknown in some cities, he may be infamous in others.

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Like its predecessor, the game features the same ability to climb buildings and perform Leaps of Faith into haystacks and carts of soft materials, including herb and spice carts. Climbing has been updated to allow Ezio the opportunity to learn to leap while climbing , allowing him to reach higher positions previously unavailable. Ezio scaling a building in Florence as represented in the memory, Nightcap. A day and night cycle has been added to the game, which the player can notice via the sun rising and setting throughout gameplay.

In addition, specific missions and game events occur at certain times in the day or night. Due to complaints of some of the missions in the original game, Assassin's Creed II 's mission system has been expanded and structured a little differently. There are approximately missions in the entire game with roughly half of them being relevant to the primary storyline. Side quests include the location and search of hidden areas which upon exploration and successful completion will reward Ezio with seals of past Assassins.

The game also possesses a system mildly similar to the "glitches" from Assassin's Creed , where pressing a specific button during a cutscene will produce specific changes and actions within the scene. The game begins with Desmond giving a brief monologue about the events of the first game and his current predicament.

Due to the " Bleeding Effect ", Desmond has gained "Eagle Vision", enabling him to see a variety of messages and symbols written in blood on his bedroom wall by its former occupant, known only as " Subject 16 ".

While staring at the message, former employee and researcher of Abstergo, Lucy Stillman, arrives, covered in blood, and frees Desmond from the room. He then re-enters the Animus briefly and watches the birth of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, as she makes a copy of the files located within the machine.

The two then escape after a brief scuffle with the company's security guards and arrive at a warehouse in which Lucy and two other modern day Assassins, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane , have set up their own base of operations, complete with their own version of an Animus. Desmond is asked by Lucy to enter their version of the Animus and relive the genetic memory of his ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, in order to continue the search for the remaining Pieces of Eden before Abstergo locates them.

Due to the number in the Assassin Order seriously dwindling, Lucy informs Desmond that she intends to train Desmond in the various skills needed to become an Assassin by exploiting the Bleeding Effect and having Desmond absorb Ezio's abilities. Ezio's father's final instructions lead him to a hidden room in the family home with a chest containing the clothing and weapons of an Assassin. Ezio is ultimately unable to save his two brothers and father from the betrayer and all three are falsely convicted of treason and hanged. After evacuating their home and sharing a brief accommodation with the family's housemaid 's sister , who teaches Ezio some survival techniques, he brings his panicked sister and muted mother to the family's countryside villa, where they are given shelter by Ezio's uncle Mario , who begins training Ezio to become an Assassin.

Ezio begins slowly locating and assassinating the conspirators involved, and is ultimately able to identify Rodrigo Borgia as the overall leader, whose main goal is to bring down the Medici family and take control of various portions of Italy. Rodrigo has been researching the knowledge surrounding the Pieces of Eden extensively and believes himself to be a prophet named in the documentation of the artifacts, which would ultimately lead him and other Templars to a location known as " The Vault ", which is believed to contain powerful information and more Pieces of Eden.

Ezio and Rodrigo duel and when Ezio gains the upper hand, guards appear and begin to move the fight into the favor of Rodrigo. The allies that Ezio has made over the years arrive shortly after and they defeat Rodrigo, who flees for fear of his life, leaving the Apple behind. They induct Ezio into the Order, informing him that they believe him to be the actual prophet who will lead the Assassins, not the Templars, to the Vault.

Desmond takes short breaks from the Animus, and during one he is tested by Lucy to see if the Bleeding Effect has been working. Desmond is able to demonstrate all of Ezio's skills, indicating that he has absorbed years worth of abilities in only a matter of hours. Throughout the genetic memories as Ezio, Desmond discovers multiple glyphs placed on various landmarks that are only visible to someone using the Animus.

The glyphs are found to be the same ones drawn on Desmond's bedroom wall in Abstergo, and analysis reveals that they contain computer code, hidden within the Animus. It is ultimately discovered that Subject 16 hacked the Animus and placed the glyphs within the memories himself, which were carried over to the new Animus when Lucy loaded the information she had recovered at Abstergo.

Each glyph contained a great number of historical artworks, photographs, and messages, past and present, implicating a great number of prominent events and figures with the Templars and Pieces of Eden. Each also contained a puzzle of some sort which, when solved, contained clips of a larger video. The clips, however, are short and out of sequence. After locating and solving all twenty glyphs, a video is revealed. They pass through a complex where workers are busy building more Pieces of Eden and climb to the roof. Eve holds up the Apple and the video suddenly ends with a flash of binary code that translates to " Eden ".

Desmond returns to the Animus and the team finds that many of the following memories are corrupted.

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They are able to begin again but only years after the fight between the Assassins and Rodrigo. The memories restart in and the team discovers that the latter gained influence and power in the Catholic Church, ultimately becoming Pope Alexander VI. Ezio and his allies have searched long and hard and collected all thirty pages of the Codex, discovering through it that the Vault lies in Rome, specifically underneath the Vatican. They realize that the Papal Staff is another Piece of Eden and Rodrigo is hoping to use it to achieve access to the Vault.

Ezio travels to the Vatican and attempts to assassinate Rodrigo, who uses the Staff against Ezio, who retaliates with the Apple. During the ensuing battle, Ezio is stabbed and Rodrigo escapes with both Pieces of Eden. Ezio then chases after him and finds Rodrigo trying to open the Vault in vain.

The two fight once more and Rodrigo finally falls. However, Ezio refuses to kill him, insisting he has killed enough in his life and the continued deaths will not reverse the fate of his family. Ezio proves himself to be the Prophet when in his hands, the Apple and Staff open the Vault. Inside the Vault, he finds not Pieces of Eden but an empty room and a holographic figure named Minerva.

She claims that she brought Ezio to her so that almost six hundred years later, Desmond and his allies would hear her words through the Animus. Minerva explains that she and her race were part of an advanced society that settled on Earth before a celestial event destroyed most of the life on Earth. Before the disaster that befell them, the members of her species created humans and used them as a race for workforce. However, humanity rebelled against their creators and initated a long-spanning war.

Ultimately, the humans seemingly won, but then the catastrophe occurred, wiping out many humans and the precursor race. Of those remaining, the two species worked to recreate the world, before the advanced race sealed themselves in temples around the world, hoping to prevent the same disaster that had destroyed most of their kind from happening once again. As Minerva finishes, she speaks to Desmond by name and informs him that she has done all she needs to and that the rest remains up to him and his allies.

The memory ends and Desmond awakens in the present to find that Abstergo has located and begun attacking the Assassins as Shaun and Rebecca pull him out of the Animus. Desmond is given a Hidden Blade by Lucy and the two run downstairs to stop the guards as Shaun and Rebecca pack up their equipment. Caroline, who was pregnant, refused his husband's decision and moved back to her father's home. To be sure that Caroline never returned to the Kenways, Emmett sent a group of Templars to burn the Kenway's farm. Edward saved his parents but his father disowned him.

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Trying to understand why his parent's home was burned, Edward was knocked out by Wilson and woke up on the Emperor which sailed to West Indies. At the begining of his privateer career, Edward met Edward Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold and when the Peace of Utrech was signed, the three became pirates. Then he gave informations which jeopardized the position of the Caribbean Assassins and he was inducted in the Templar Order. The Grand Master revealed the existence of the Observatory , a Isu temple which contained a device capable to spy individuals, which could only be opened by a Sage , a reincarnation of the Isu's member Aita.

After the Templars captured the new Sage, Bartholomew Roberts , Edward decided to double cross the Templars and to freed Roberts to discover the location of the Observatory and make a fortune with it. But the Sage escaped and Edward had been seen through by the Templars and was imprisoned on the Spanish Treasure Fleet. During four years, Edward pursued his quest to find the Sage. During his journey, he met the pirate James Kidd, who was in fact Mary Read , a Caribbean Assassin who wanted Edward to join the Assassins, but Edward only helped the Assassins for money and to retrieve the Templar keys.

In , he learned his father died from pleurisy. In , Edward found Roberts who led him to the Observatory. There he discovered that the device, a Crystal Skull , a Piece of Eden which could be use with a Blood vials to see through the eyes of someone. While Edward changed his mind about selling the Observatory location, Roberts betrayed him and send him into the Kingston prison.

But during their escape, Mary died. After the loss of Mary and other friends, Edward decided to overlook his dream of glory and money and became an Assassin to honor Mary's wish. After the Assassins' victory in the Observatory, Edward learned that Caroline had died two years before from the smallpox which she contracted from her father. He also discovered he had a daughter, Jennifer Scott , who was born few months after his depart for the West Indies. Then, he gave his hideout to the Assassins and decided to raise his daughter in England as he tracked the men responsible for the burning of his family farm.

In , during a meeting with his mother, he exposed his plan but she disowned him. Nevertheless, Edward killed Emmett Scott and was about to burn Matthew Hague before Robert Walpole gave him a pardon from his former life as a pirate. In December , Edward and Tessa had a son, Haytham. At his eighth birthday, Edward began to train his son as an Assassin. In parallel, Edward searched for the Grand Temple that Roberts evoked in his last moment, where a woman waited.

Thereby he began to courtise Jennifer to access to the journal.

He also lured Haytham to know the location of the journal. Jennifer revealed the true allegiance of Birch to her father, so Edward expelled the Templar from his mansion. On the tenth birthday of Haytham, Birch sent masked men to the Kenway Mansion. They burned it, kidnapped Jennifer, killed Edward and took his journal. Afterwards, Tessa refused to see again her son, who killed one of Birch's men in front of her eyes to protect her, and decided to reconstructe the Kenway Mansion.

Then as nobody knew his implication in mansion's attack, Birch took Haytham under his wing to make him a Templar, promising to find Jennifer. With years, Haytham became a deadly agent for the Templars. Giving it back to Birch, the Grand Master informed Haytham the death of his mother. Later Haytham continued the search of the men who burned his family mansion, going to Germany to find Jack Digweed , a servant of Edward who was accused of the attack. Haytham and Birch found Digweed had been tortured by the men who attacked the mansion.

Haytham pursued one of them and Birch killed Digweed to make sure Haytham didn't find out the truth. Mortally wounding his target, Haytham learned that his father was an Assassin and he was killed for something. On the body, Haytham found a document which proved the man served the Templar and general Edward Braddock. In , Haytham kidnapped Lucio Albertine in Corsica to decipher his father's journal. Fighting the Assassin Miko, Haytham lost his family sword but gained Miko's hidden blade.

Birch sent Haytham to the Colonies to find the Grand Temple. Weeks later, Charles Lee gave Haytham a letter of Jim Holden who informed him that they found the location of Jennifer. Lee also told Haytham that Braddock died from his wounds.

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