I have a really bad habit of doing things out of order when it comes to a series. When I was a child, for instance, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was first published, I read it before I'd read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (and thus, it remains my favorite in the entire series, regardless of the fact that most consider it the worst. :( ) I've done this again and again throughout my life, so I didn't really consider it odd when I picked up Assassin's Creed 2 before having played the first. I'd been assured by my brother and my friend that 2 would make plenty of sense without having played the first (mostly true, looking back) and that the story in 1 wasn't exactly tied in to 2 (kind of true, barring the entire underlying story with Abstergo, Lucy, Warren, and Desmond, which I guess I consider more important than most people do).
To be fair, I was originally uninterested in Assassin's Creed 2. The most I recall about it is that it came out on the same day as Resident Evil 5, and the GameStop I frequent was having a midnight launch for AC2 so I was able to get my copy of RE5 at midnight as well. There were a lot of Assassin's Creed fanboys at GameStop that night. My brother received the game for Christmas (2009) and I watched him play the beginning of it and found myself mostly turned off of the game because of the graphics (which I will get into later).
However, my good friend V (who you can find at her own gamer blog, Bat Romance) was also a big fan of the game, and eventually I decided to give it a shot as well. I picked the game up and took it home…
