History Awesome / AssassinsCreedII

* Having ''UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci'' himself as your friend and GadgeteerGenius.

* Creeping around the ceiling and scaffolding of the Sistine Chapel whilst a mass is being said. Let's be very clear here: you are leaping down from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to assassinate ''the Pope'' IN THE MIDDLE OF A HIGH MASS.

* The BigBad, [[spoiler: Rodrigo Borgia]], gets one in the mission where you tail Jacopo de'Pazzi to the Templar meeting. [[spoiler: Rodrigo kills Jacopo for his failure, then he tells Ezio he knows Ezio's hiding over there (and he's mock sorry for [[KillSteal killing his target]]) and sends his guards to take him out]].

** The battle itself, with the Spaniard finally given a name -- Rodrigo Borgia, a huge OhCrap moment for those who know their history and who he was. As Rodrigo fights, [[spoiler:Ezio's allies show up to help him fight the guards, revealing they're all Assassins that have been watching over and guiding him for years in preparation to join them.]]
** [[spoiler:The initiation ritual where Ezio is formally made an Assassin.]]
** The end of the sequence where you realize what was in the package Ezio helped deliver: [[spoiler:the Apple of Eden]].

* [[spoiler: Ezio's charge through Rome, leaving enormous numbers of the Mooks you struggled to defeat for most of the game dead behind him.]]
* Ezio activating the Apple and [[spoiler: splitting into five to face Borgia, much like al-Mualim did.]] Made so much better because you're not on the receiving end of that trick this time around.

* Rodrigo gets one after taking account [[spoiler: into the little white scene where Ezio hears his victim's last words, you think that's it but, it turns out, [[NotQuiteDead no]]. Then he pulls out his epic staff and really is kind of a bitch to beat, even with the clones. Honestly his defiance is pretty cool, considering you've slaughtered your way to him.]]

* [[spoiler:Minerva]], despite appearing only once. "The rest is up to you, [[spoiler:''Desmond'']]". "What the fuck", indeed.

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* Lucy gets one at the beginning of the game, when she ''brutally'' takes down two of Abstergo's armed security guards by herself without breaking a sweat. Desmond is right to say "Holy ''shit''!" She is ''not'' Vidic's girl Friday.

* Let's just start with the ''amazing'' work by the developers, who recreated gorgeously [[ShownTheirWork detailed]], living and breathing Renaissance Italy cities. [[SceneryPorn The views]] on Florence, Venice and others when escalating the tallest buildings are simply to die for.