Assassin's Creed II sells 1.6m worldwide News
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Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin's Creed II sold 1.6m units worldwide in one week, according to "internal estimates".
That's 32 per cent better than the original Assassin's Creed, which is still the fastest-selling new IP that North America has ever seen.
The increase may be attributed to Assassin's Creed II being a much better game. Eurogamer scored the original Assassin's Creed 7/10 and gave the sequel 9/10.
Assassin's Creed II débuted at number two in the UK All-Formats chart this week, denied top billing by the colossal Modern Warfare 2. Activision's war game sold 1.7m copies in one day in the UK alone, and around 4.7m copies globally in 24 hours. First-week sales have not been revealed but are expected to be around the 7m mark.
It's worth noting, however, that Assassin's Creed II had fewer days on sale before counting, having been released on a traditional Tuesday (US) and Friday (UK) timetable. Modern Warfare 2, remember, arrived globally on Tuesday 10th November.
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Comments: 1-35 of 35 in total
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Ninja_Tino
24/11/09 @ 14:20
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All these games and no console at uni. This Xmas break is going to be EPIC (kinda).
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kangarootoo
24/11/09 @ 14:26
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"All these games and no console at uni"
Its the best way. If I had had a console at uni my education I would have been in big trouble. I had a beige Mac back then, for which there were about 8 games in the whole world :) |
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Teamallstar
24/11/09 @ 14:28
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It's amazing that a game could do this well being released so close to modern warfare 2!
I feel a bit sorry for valve as left for dead seems to have gotten lost in the the assassins creed and mw2 rush! |
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You guys rated the original one with a 7/10? Are you serious? oO
Anyhow, Great news for a great game. But to think I would rate more the first Assassin's cause it was too original and great as well. and now you give an extra 2 points for the improved one? I will never understand how you guys rate games.. Its kinda bad thoguh. but still a great game :) |
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Moribundman
24/11/09 @ 14:38
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Batman and Creed are actually very similar. Love them both.
Have to say Batman seemed slicker but Creed seems deeper. |
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@moribundman: yes that's why I asked ;) thanks..
@ZeroAX: Legacy of Kain was actually the only Eidos game (up till perhaps Batman) that I found to be decent. I still don't understand why they ditched an excellent control scheme and went for the Tomb Raider / Hitman mess in their other games instead. |
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markymark22
24/11/09 @ 14:56
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Got this yesterday for the ps3, first part i was a bit worried about how it was going but i'm glad i held out! I'm loving it! Cant wait to finish work and get in!
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EarlBassett
24/11/09 @ 15:22
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Very tempted by this,
Went to Florence a couple of months ago so very interested in the setting of this game. But worried about spending out yet more money, as both Modern Warfare 2 and Fifa 10 were huge letdowns for me |
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Lunatic4ever
24/11/09 @ 16:36
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game industry is definetely booming :D
thats awesome. they were all complaining about piracy and all that... just look at it. finally gamers get good games AND good developers get payed! Call of DUty,Assasisins Creed 2...dunnoo but it feels like a new era of high quality games. |
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kangarootoo
24/11/09 @ 16:59
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"eidos has been sold to the japs, so you might as well support the last european publisher left."
Ubi are a huge multi-national. With studios in France, Canada and Shanghai, it doesn't really matter where they have their head office. I suggest you either buy games on the basis of whether they are fun to play, or if you want to do something "worthwhile" buy games by small indie devs based in the country of your choosing. |
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kangarootoo
24/11/09 @ 17:01
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@schnide
The animus and associated guff feature afr less in AC2 than in the first one. In AC1 you were in and out of the bloody thing like a cat at the cinema with a bucket of mouse-corn. During my play so far, I've only been out of the thing once and that was right at the start. |
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I think alot of copies of MW2 will be traded after xmas, having to pay more that any other console game and then to be forced to buy map packs that should have been part of the original release is a complete piss take. AC2 while not containing the multiplayer element is at least 3 times longer than MW2.
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I really enjoyed the first game, even though it was a bit repetitive, I still enjoyed the free running aspect. However, when the French guy on all the preview videos said they had improved number 2, they were not kidding. Assassin's Creed 2 is AWESOME. I love it, I'm glad it sold well, I have played it for hours and I don't think I'm anywhere near completing it, or being bored of it.
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interceptor
25/11/09 @ 10:23
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Assassins Creed 2 is one of the best games I've ever played. It deserves to be mega-mega successful and I'm so stoked for AC3 already
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"Was interested in this, but no Jade WhatsherFace, no sale for me.
What's she up to these days? " Shes executive producer on AC2. There was a lot of hoohah back when AC1 launched that Ubi maybe used the lovely Ms Raymond a bit too much in the promoting of the game so maybe thats why you've not heard much about her with the launch of AC2. Not that you'd need a pretty face to sell the game this time around - Brilliant game! Ubi are one of the best developers around imo.
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