AC 2 DLC Details

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Hot off its impressive first week sales news, Ubisoft revealed today Assassin's Creed II is receiving two additional download pack add-ons starting in early 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The first DLC episode, Battle of Forli, is planned for release in January, while the second, Bonfire of the Vanities, hits a month later in February.

The downloadable content will fill out the missing memory blocks in Assassin's Creed II. The titles of the content are telling in themselves. The battle of Forli most likely deals with the town being seized by Cesare Borgia (The villain in ACII) in 1499. Control of the town had previously been claimed by Pope Sixtus IV and given to his nephew Gerolamo Riario. Riario's wife was the beautiful Caterina Sforza, who fans of the game might remember running into as Ezio tried to board a boat to Venice. It's possible that the plot aligns Ezio with Caterina as she fights for the town's independence.

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a more popular historical event where supporters of the church would congregate and burn possessions that were associated with vanity like mirrors or make-up. The game refers to one such event taking place in Florence during one of the missing memories. Historically, the confrontation resulted in Caterina being taken prisoner by Cesare Borgia and relocated to Rome.

Courtesy of IGN

weird the game case doens't say anything about the content download, but cheap move Ubi, for real the game was under develop for alost 2 years and in a couple months they have 2 new chapters?doubalfa

Well its a bit dubious until you understand how games are made.

First off, the game content had likely been finished for several months before the game was released. The time period between then and the release was primarily finishing touches, particularly in the reliability of the full-game. But while people are doing that, there is still likely a team of people working on future content. This content will not be ready in-time for release, but can still be worked on for the purpose of selling as DLC at a later date.

Sure, they could have just delayed the game and put more content into it. But what purpose does that serve? Not only do we all have to wait longer to get a game, but then the developer also loses an opportunity to make some money(particularly when the release date is a Holiday release date). The only time 'soon-after-release' DLC bothers me is when its something that I feel should have been in the game in the first place. But as it is, Assassin's Creed 2 is already a very complete game, so I dont think anybody can rightfully accuse them of selling DLC that 'should' have been part of the the release game.

weird the game case doens't say anything about the content download, but cheap move Ubi, for real the game was under develop for alost 2 years and in a couple months they have 2 new chapters?doubalfa

Yeah i didnt think this game would have DLC either. With the need add-ons will there be new achievements for it also?

Cant wait for this stuff to arrive :D

[QUOTE="doubalfa"]weird the game case doens't say anything about the content download, but cheap move Ubi, for real the game was under develop for alost 2 years and in a couple months they have 2 new chapters?seankane

Well its a bit dubious until you understand how games are made.

First off, the game content had likely been finished for several months before the game was released. The time period between then and the release was primarily finishing touches, particularly in the reliability of the full-game. But while people are doing that, there is still likely a team of people working on future content. This content will not be ready in-time for release, but can still be worked on for the purpose of selling as DLC at a later date.

Sure, they could have just delayed the game and put more content into it. But what purpose does that serve? Not only do we all have to wait longer to get a game, but then the developer also loses an opportunity to make some money(particularly when the release date is a Holiday release date). The only time 'soon-after-release' DLC bothers me is when its something that I feel should have been in the game in the first place. But as it is, Assassin's Creed 2 is already a very complete game, so I dont think anybody can rightfully accuse them of selling DLC that 'should' have been part of the the release game.

I'm excited for the content and I don't even own the game yet.