PC Assassin's II gets European date

By Robert Purchese Published 26 January, 2010

System requirements offered up too.

Update: Ubisoft's confirmed a 5th March release date for the PC edition of Assassin's Creed II [and not Mass Effect 2, obviously. Idiot - Ed] in Europe. That means we get the game earlier than the US. Shh, don't brag.

Original story: Ubisoft has popped a 16th March date on the PC edition of Assassin's Creed II for North America.

There's still nothing more specific than Q1 2010 for Europe, although we're hounding Ubisoft now.

The PC edition will be known as the Director's Cut, according to VG247, and contain both chunks of DLC: The Battle of Forli and the Bonfire of the Vanities. There's going to be an even snazzier Black Edition too, but there's no information on what is within.

Ubisoft's also announced the PC system requirements for the game, which will run on Windows Vista/XP/7.

Minimum:

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz / AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHz
  • RAM: 1.5GB (Windows XP) / 2GB (Windows Vista/7)
  • Video: 256MB DirectX 9.0 compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher
  • Sound: DirectX 9.0 compliant sound card DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
  • HDD: 8GB free space

Maximum:

  • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.6GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
  • RAM: N/A (presumably the more the better - it's an openworld game, you know)
  • Video: GeForce 8800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
  • Sound: 5.1 enabled card

Supported video cards at release are ATI RADEON X1950, HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series; and NVIDIA GeForce 7/8/9/100/200 series.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 2 years ago

    Yay I suspected we would get a DC! As for Euro release I think we are a cert for that week or just after. Get in.

    Now Mr Steam gimme a silly deal on the first one, I didn't finish it before I gave up my Metaboli!

  • djed #2 2 years ago

    Maximum system requirements... that's a new one.

  • SYS64738 #3 2 years ago

    "Maximum system requirements... that's a new one. "

    Yep:D

    And (almost) exactly my set up, I may add. I have a wee bit of RAM available though. This is definitely on the shopping list if they don't botch up the PC version (port?).

  • ignatiusjreilly #4 2 years ago

    Maximum specs? WTF?

  • the_dudefather #5 2 years ago

    you will have to use dosbox to get it working right if you go past the max specs

    or you could use the TURBO button

  • Darren #6 2 years ago

    I didn't especially like the first game beyond the first few fun hours but the universal excellent reviews for the sequel on the 360 and PS3 have got me all excited over the sequel so it has been pre-ordered for a month or so now.

    My PC exceeds those 'maximum' specifications though... does that mean I won't be able to play it? ;)

  • cianchristopher #7 2 years ago

    Nice to get the Director's Cut - I'd never pay for DLC on a PC game (I hope Modern Warfare 2 doesn't start that shit)...

    I'm deffo picking this up on Steam when it goes on sale (I can wait, I have it on 360 too)

  • Boomerang #8 2 years ago

    Maximum - lol. Come on Robert, wtf?

  • ignatiusjreilly #9 2 years ago

    Come on Robert, wtf?

    As VG247 calls them "maximum PC specs" but the source article doesn't, I guess it's just a cut and paste job.

    Not that that makes it better. In fact it makes it worse.

  • Boomerang #10 2 years ago

    So... laziness as opposed to daftness then?

  • mkreku #11 2 years ago

    You'd think that the PC system requirements for any Xbox 360 port would stay the same, seeing as the hardware in the Xbox 360 hasn't changed..

  • swede #12 2 years ago

    The article reads 'Mass Effect 2' in the first paragraph. You guys must have that game on the brain. Correction needed.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #13 2 years ago

    The article reads 'Mass Effect 2' in the first paragraph. You guys must have that game on the brain. Correction needed.

    Ahem. Apologies. Yes, Mass Effect 2 very much on brain.

  • Murton #14 2 years ago

    mkreku: the PC version of any 360 will be using higher resolution textures, higher overall resolution, different lighting effects afforded by more advanced DX features and and number of other improvements, plus it has to run an OS and various hardware drivers in the background.

    The big bonus here is that PC owners not only get to experience one of the GOTY candidates from 2009 but they also get to experience the whole thing without the 10 year gap in the story that console owners must pay extra to fill in. All that potentail AC2 PC owners need now is a pricing announcement, though I'd imagine it'll likely be standard PC retail of £30-35 compared to the near fifty quid that the same game costs on either of the consoles (after filling the DLC gap)

  • Darren #15 2 years ago

    MrMarc - I know what you mean... Splinter Cell: Double Agent was atrocious on the PC, the developers didn't even bother supporting a controller unlike the earlier Chaos Theory! However, the first Assassin's Creed wasn't too bad on the PC, it even supported the oft ignored DX10, but it did demand a powerful machine. Hopefully the sequel will be more optimised and *will* run well on PCs that meet the "maximum" (sic) requirement.

  • UncleLou #16 2 years ago

    The real question though is whether it'll be a typical Ubisoft PC port as they've done for so many years now.

    By that I mean one word: Shit.

    Not much wrong with the port of AC, apart from how long it took to actually quit the game, was there. Now the game itself was shit, mind, but that had nothing to do with it being a port. Neither were FC2 or the latest PoP shit ports.

  • WJF #17 2 years ago

    'Not much wrong with the port of AC, apart from how long it took to actually quit the game, was there. Now the game itself was shit, mind, but that had nothing to do with it being a port. Neither were FC2 or the latest PoP shit ports.'

    Aye, I've had no problems with Ubi's recent ports. AC ran fine on the 9500GT (which is saying something) at 720.

    AC2 is so much better than AC though. It's ridiculous how much more enjoyable it is considering that the game hasn't really changed /that/ much. It's still definitely AssCreed, just much, much better.

  • Pablo2k5 #18 2 years ago

    Can't wait.

  • Nephirion #19 2 years ago

    If you exceed the maximum requirements you will have to downgrade your machine I take it ...

  • Pasco #20 2 years ago

    Yeah sure. My machine exceeds the "maximum" configuration and Assassin's Creed 1 framerate was all over the place although I had anti-aliasing turned off and the crowd at minimum detail.