Overwhelmingly positive reception for Assassin's Creed II

Today Ubisoft announced record first week sales performance for its Assassin’s Creed II video game with 1.6 million units sold through worldwide according to internal estimates. This represents 32% growth over the first week sales of Assassin’s Creed. Launched in November 2007, Assassin’s Creed remains the fastest selling new video game intellectual property ever in the U.S.

Assassin’s Creed II has received an overwhelmingly positive reception from gamers around the world and from the video game trade press with to date an 91% average critics score according to GameRankings.com.