The December 2009 issue of WIRED Italy features my story on Assassin's Creed II. I had the pleasure of talking to Corey May about the process of recreating Renaissance Italy in a digital space and reinventing the game mechanics. Playing Assassin's Creed, like the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas, is a hyper-real simulation of the post-card images of the Belpaese. As I play the game, I spend more time admiring the Rialto bridge, Maria del Fiore, Santa Maria
Novella, Santa Croce than killing people... Umberto Eco would be proud.
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