First details on Assassin's Creed II: Twitter Assassination Experience

• by Andy Burt
• July 23, 2009 00:00 AM PST

Assassin's Creed II may still be a few months off, but GamePro has the exclusive first-look at the game's online assassination experience!

Launching at noon today (12:00PM PST), Ubisoft will be launching the Assassin's Creed II Twitter Experience, inviting players (and tweeters) from around the world to join in online battles and assassinations. The game will utilize Twitter by issuing match assignments to players who have registered at www.assassinscreed.com/twitter, and from there players will have a small window of opportunity to perform a number of different attacks, counters, or escapes through Twitter itself.

A player's profile page shows rank, available weapons, overall score and more.

Games are assigned by game masters, via @replies, who will issue players an amount of time they have to complete an assassination on another player (follow @assassinscreed for all assassination updates). Keywords such as chop, hack, carve and others are automatically picked up by game masters, and they will also notify players of their success (or failure) in attempted assassinations.

Players will also be able to enter into Aggressive Mode play via the Assassin's Creed II Twitter Experience site listed above. This mode runs entirely through the site, and doesn't require players to follow assassination assignments. Players will be able to attack up to five enemies at once, as well as defend against five potential assassinations in Aggro Mode. This mode looks similar to the Visualizer (shown on the second page), but requires players to pay close attention to attacks and counters in order to survive.

Aggro Mode allows players to attack and defend against multiple players at once.

In addition to the two play modes, players who just want to view other players' assassination attempts in real-time can access the Visualizer through the main Experience site.

The Assassin's Creed II Twitter Experience launches today at 12:00PM PST, so get your knives ready to slice and dice your way to becoming a profressional assassin.

Click the next page for more Assassin's Creed II Twitter Assassination Eperience screens!

THE VERDICT by Andy Burt Whoa, I didn't see this coming. The assassination experience sounds like a cool virtual experience to compliment the already insane hype of AC2. What I'm wondering though, is how this will tie into the main game. What do you guys think?

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