'Exclusive' Assassin's Creed 2 retailer content eventually unlocked for all

by David Hinkle { Sep 17th 2009 at 3:20PM }

Assassin's Creed 2 creative director Patrice Désilets wants everyone to play his game. More importantly, he wants everyone to play all of his game, regardless of the numerous in-game bonuses being used to incentivize pre-orders. The candid creator told Kotaku that those who stalk their prey with a little more patience won't miss out on the extra missions. "Eventually everyone will have the entire game," Désilets said.

While it's nice that Ubisoft intends to "unlock everything" in Ezio's rampage, the one thing none of us will get -- no matter who you pre-order from -- is a conclusive ending to the franchise. As Désilets told us during E3 2009, "At the end of AC2 you'll say‚ 'Holy crap, I never saw it coming.'"

Tags: assassins-creed, assassins-creed-2, ubisoft, ubisoft-montreal

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Erluti @ Sep 17th 2009 3:21PM

Good job, Ubi!
Down with pre-orders!

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Sep 17th 2009 3:39PM

Just going to throw this out there.

Would have been better if they just didn't bother with pre-order and exclusive DLC to begin with. Why not let every get the full game from the get go?

deaftly @ Sep 17th 2009 4:42PM

What exactly is sooo bad about preordering games again? The free stuff you get or being able to pay off a game a little at a time before it comes out? Oh wait this is the internet.

DEATH TO GAMESTOP

WREturns(There was once a dream called Rome) @ Sep 17th 2009 6:14PM

The bad thing about pre-orders is that they're unnecessary. When's the last time you couldn't get a new game on day one? For console launches they're a good idea. Game releases? Not really. The other reason is that GameStop makes money off of the interest your pre-order money makes by sitting there. Do they pass that on to you in any way? No.

Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Sep 17th 2009 3:23PM

So how does the biomass think it's going to "end"? GO!

Shmil @ Sep 17th 2009 3:43PM

Spielberg ending, the christians are aliens!

WREturns(There was once a dream called Rome) @ Sep 17th 2009 3:48PM

M. Knight ending: The Christian aliens are allergic to water. (Fucking seriously?)

Kevlar @ Sep 17th 2009 3:59PM

Michael Bay ending: Altair runs up the side of the building, while it's exploding, to get an alien super-weapon that makes all the Christians explode.

Geist @ Sep 17th 2009 4:05PM

Peter Jackson Ending

Massive pull out camera shot of a huge army of assassins coming to storm the Templars, climactic battle involving huge machines and huge everything, but no blood, and then the good guys win before crowning Altair king of the hobbits or something.

daniel @ Sep 17th 2009 4:25PM

Quentin Tarantino ending: 3 hour cut scene involving Ezio wading through knee deep blood and contemplating on the horrible things he has done while maintaining a sadistic smile on his face. he then joins up with Altair and Desmond. This is explained through the splintered sub-plot footage showing Desmond rewiring the Animus to travel through time and pick-up his long dead ancestors. They then use the animus to return to the present time and finally defeat the Templars.

Young_Nastyman @ Sep 17th 2009 4:35PM

Uwe Boll ending: Ezio is a Chinese trinket shop owner, played by Zack Effron, who is being harassed by the British mafia in Alaska. The mafia gets killed off by a rabid group of penguins and Ezio becomes the king of Los Angeles.

rickjamess04 @ Sep 17th 2009 4:53PM

Vivid Entertainment Ending:

After a long drawn out battle versus aliens, Ezio climbs to the top of the castle fighting his way out--his clothes badly torn and tattered. He is cornered on top of the tower. He then swan dives into a haystack. The haystack is filled with 20 alien women all scantily clad. Ezio then cheesily says, 'who is ready for a roll in the hay?' The scene ends with 'massive explosions' of lust and lewd acts of passion.

ElementFire @ Sep 17th 2009 5:00PM

George Lucas ending:

The entire city collapses as a long-buried spaceship destroys the landscape in a whirlwind of destruction as it rises into the sky while Ezio's brain explodes after being psychically filled with all the knowledge gathered by gophers in the last millennium.

merobb @ Sep 17th 2009 5:17PM

Everyone that replied to this...

You are my heroes.

Viney @ Sep 17th 2009 5:52PM

The Soprano's ending:

Rival assassin enters scene... build up the tension... queue Journey - Don't Stop Believing... CUT TO BLACK!

Sly (PSN: SniperChameleon) @ Sep 17th 2009 5:54PM

i would actually love if that tarantino ending IS the ending. that would be badass.

Blank-Mage @ Sep 17th 2009 6:25PM

Neon Evangelion ending:

Ezio confronts the Pope, you unites all of the Christians into a giant deformed mega-Christian by removing their personal-space-field, but then immediately cuts to 2 hours of Ezio sitting in a folding chair pondering the meaning of life, then he stabs the Pope, the Mega-Christians' head falls off, and Ezio becomes the last man on Earth.

Dawveedeff @ Sep 17th 2009 9:53PM

JJ Abrams ending:

There's a huge flash of light and Italy has disappeared from the Mediterranean.

fffunfarm06 @ Sep 17th 2009 10:33PM

with a giant wifearm is how its gonna end.

prodigy69 @ Sep 18th 2009 7:23AM

J.J. Abrams ending

Huge f**kin' lens flare

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Sep 17th 2009 3:23PM

Wish more Companies would got this route....Insomniac is good for giving that stuff away later too

MilsurpShooter @ Sep 17th 2009 3:25PM

End the console Bias, all content for everyone lol

I'll give you guys Joker for Arkham if you give me Lost and Damned... Please? Didn't think so

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Sep 17th 2009 3:39PM

Wait for it

Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 17th 2009 3:41PM

Wait for what?

Ashitaka @ Sep 17th 2009 5:51PM

Wait for it to be released later. All extra content this gen is timed exclusive.

Owen @ Sep 17th 2009 3:26PM

oh dear they said that about the ending of AC1 and i saw the ending right from the beginning, the assassin master dude being evil that is all the other stuff was just crazy.

AvA (ice~) @ Sep 17th 2009 3:29PM

that picture makes it look like Ezio is raping that guy...just look at his face

ScottG13 @ Sep 17th 2009 3:32PM

Who says he's not? It is Italy, after all.

Dirty @ Sep 17th 2009 3:32PM

Sodomy quick kill. I heard in the next one you can sodomize two guards at once.

Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 17th 2009 3:40PM

Surprise buttsex is part of every assassin tranning.

Pretty much the same way ninjas can use silenced shotguns.

djbuhhda @ Sep 17th 2009 4:05PM

yeh they change the game to ASS-ASSins creed, its about raping everyone now, not killing.

Geist @ Sep 17th 2009 4:09PM

I would play that game because it would be awesome and you know it.

Snowblind @ Sep 17th 2009 3:31PM

I expect to have the entire game as soon as I buy it. It shouldn't be an "eventual" thing.

Cornelius @ Sep 17th 2009 4:00PM

So you're opposed to free DLC, a la Burnout Paradise?

Snowblind @ Sep 17th 2009 4:04PM

I like free content, and I don't even mind paying for new content that's been released after the game is out.

However, I *don't* like pre-order bonuses that include content that we should have from the get go. Limited editions are becoming really bad for this lately too, including a making of disc, some little freebies and maybe an artbook or soundtrack was one thing, but locking out parts of the game just to make people pay more, or order from specific places is just evil.

Viney @ Sep 17th 2009 4:39PM

Snowblind, but you do have to figure, that with a lot of pre-order content, some of that stuff wouldn't exist at all if retailers didn't pay to fund the development of it in the first place.

If developers were cutting out chunks of content to then sell to retailers as exclusive bonuses I'd completely agree. But I believe that most of this stuff is created because of exclusivity deals.

Snowblind @ Sep 17th 2009 4:50PM

Mm, I'm not sure I buy that, at least not for most games.

Look at Ultimate Alliance 2, for example. You have to pre-order if you want to play as Juggernaut. He's not a character that would have taken a lot of extra time to program in (he was in the original) and I'm pretty sure he would have been playable anyway, since it has other villians in there too.

Viney @ Sep 17th 2009 5:19PM

But from what I understand of the MUA2 situation, is those characters were always planned for DLC purchases. You could buy playable Juggernaut for 1.99 last week before they realized their mistake and took it down and put up the patch that they meant to put up that allows you to play with someone that already has him. The existence of that patch alone tells you they planned on adding him as a DLC purchase and not as an original unlockable in the game, or he would have already been in there. So if some retailer wants to foot the bill now just for pre-ordering with them, what's wrong with that? You're getting something for free now that they were planning on charging you for down the road, just for giving them your business.

Solace @ Sep 17th 2009 3:33PM

Finally! Enough with they retarded store exclusive pre-order garbage! Put a game out and include everything you set out to add in the game.

Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 17th 2009 3:47PM

It would be awesome they did that for MAG.

I want to play Valor and SVER.

RKN @ Sep 17th 2009 3:36PM

Even the PS3 exclusive content will be unlocked, the content that needs a PSP and the PSP game to unlock?

Cheesus(Crust) @ Sep 17th 2009 3:41PM

I hope not. PS3 needs stuff like this, and the 360's deserves it, since they are keeping the MW2 DLC and GTA DLC!

Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 17th 2009 3:46PM

MW2 DLC? When did that happen?

Actually I love the Ps3 bonuses but they take a while to get to the international PSN.Nowadays I prefer the PSN since the Xbox live markeplace ate my Call of Duty World at War code om nom nom.

Cheesus(Crust) @ Sep 17th 2009 4:35PM

MW2 gets timed DLC for 360.,

RKN @ Sep 17th 2009 4:56PM

I'd like all the content to come to the PC version at least, we are not part of the console wars. : )

Come on Microsoft, bring the GTA4 DLC to PC!!! > : (

Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 17th 2009 3:39PM

:D

Including the PSP bonuses? I wanted the X360 version since I have my AC1 data there but I wouldn't mind buying the PS3 version for the PSP bonuses,I was going to get the PSP game anyway.

The portable Assassin's creed games play pretty much like Prince of Persia with some added gimmicks.