A better DLC than the last for an outstanding game.

User Rating: 9 | Assassin's Creed II: Bonfire of the Vanities X360
By 93soccer | Review Date:
I stopped playing ACII (Sequence 12) so that I could buy this before finishing the other one and play it all in one go. Even though I gave the other DLC a 8.0, it's by no means a great content pack and by the end, get's very, very repititve. Thankfully, this isnt the case with this one. It starts off following the events of the last DLC (no spoilers) and immediately sets itself up to be an epic adventure by introducing Ezio (you) to a new area in beautiful Florence. It does come with some new tricks as well such as the "Spring Jump" but I soon found myself not caring in the least about the new trick and sticking to what I knew best. Storywise it's not like the other Sequences since the whole mission is opened up to you right away and you choose what order to complete the first 9 missions in (This has a total of 10 missions I beleive). The missions range from simple, yet fun to painfully annoying and sometimes downright frustrating but again, it all depends on your play style. This piece of DLC also has some technical hiccups since I found there to be no audio in the first and second last cutscene of the DLC. Since I had subtitles on, it was not that big of an issue but I hope Ubisoft fix it soon. I was just happy that the last scene had audio since it's probably the best cutscene in the game and most likely the most epic speech I've ever heard in a game.
Overall, a very good DLC, that if you buy the premier version, also comes with 3 templar temples previously exclusive to the "black edition" of Assassin's Creed II to have fun in and explore to achieve 100% sync with Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

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