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· Games / Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Revelations has a few different achievement lists depending on the version. The Ezio Collection has 49 Revelations achievements on Xbox, or 50 trophies including the PS4 platinum. It includes The Lost Archive and leaves out multiplayer. The...
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Assassin’s Creed Revelations brings Ezio’s playable trilogy to its ending, but it also goes back to the man who started the series. That connection between Ezio and Altaïr is what gives this game its place in the bigger story. Released Nove...
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood — what I’d upgrade first Brotherhood isn’t about putting points into a giant skill tree. The useful choices are your equipment, your recruits and what you rebuild around Rome. The crossbow would be high on my li...
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Brotherhood makes the collectible hunt a little easier to keep track of, but there’s one thing worth knowing before you start: not all of the flags are out in Rome. There are 101 altogether. Eighty-three are around the city, and the other e...
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If you’re going back through Brotherhood, check which version you’re playing before you start chasing everything. The original release and The Ezio Collection do not have the same list. The original Xbox 360 release has 50 base achievements...
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is where Ezio really starts carrying the weight of the name. ACII follows him becoming an Assassin. Brotherhood puts him in Rome and asks what he’s going to do with everything he’s learned. It released on Novemb...
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Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery — wanted-poster cleanup There are fifty wanted posters, and they matter because they improve Ezio’s health. This is the DS game, not ACII’s city notoriety system. Here’s the mission checklist. The numbers are...
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Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery — what to collect and how the upgrades work Discovery has a different setup from the big console games. Wanted posters improve your health. Renaissance maps unlock challenges. Hidden art rooms are another extr...
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Discovery is another one I wanted to separate from the main game because the name makes it sound like it might just be a handheld version of Assassin’s Creed II. It isn’t. It’s a separate Ezio adventure, originally released on Nintendo DS i...
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Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines — the 78 hidden coins This is a compact location checklist, not another full story walkthrough. Each area has five silver coins and one gold. Read the five numbered silver locations separately; the gold is liste...
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Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines — upgrades without overcomplicating it Bloodlines doesn’t have the giant skill trees from the later games. You’re spending coins on practical upgrades: staying alive, dealing more damage and carrying more knives...
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Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines — all 40 accomplishments Bloodlines has its own accomplishments in the game. These aren’t PSN trophies, and I’m not mixing in a fan-made achievement list. Here’s the whole set without turning it into forty diffe...
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Bloodlines is the one that follows Altaïr after the first Assassin’s Creed. It came out for PSP in 2009, and it takes him to Cyprus as he continues going after the Templars. Maria is part of this story too. That matters because when you’re...
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Assassin’s Creed II: the extra chapters and secret locations Before moving on from ACII, there are a few extra pieces worth keeping with it. The original release and later editions don’t present all of this the same way, which is why people...
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Assassin’s Creed II: finishing the Codex and the remaining collection The Codex is the one you have to finish before the final sequence. There are 30 pages altogether, but you’re not hunting 30 separate guarded rooms. Six are already on the...
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Assassin’s Creed II: the tombs and villa statuettes These are the main routes and the places where it helps to know what you’re looking for. The six seals unlock Altaïr’s armor beneath Villa Auditore. Novella is part of the story; the other...
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Assassin’s Creed II: all 20 glyphs and their answers Puzzle spoilers below. Here’s the checklist without making you dig through a different page for every marking. Find glyphs in any order; puzzles follow this fixed sequence. Scan markings...
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Venice — Dorsoduro 1. Northwestern waterfront: corner beam facing across water toward town. 2. Western canal bridge: building's canal-facing beam. 3. Northwestern canal bend: beam projecting from building's side. 4. Northern church block: w...
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Romagna / Forlì 1. Southern gate, inside town: building's road-facing wooden pole. 2. Southwestern block: wall pole beneath wooden platform. 3. Western wall tower: roof's highest point. 4. West-central town: wooden beam spanning street. 5....
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Monteriggioni 1. Outside western wall: cottage roof beside fields. 2. Outside northeastern wall: house roof beside chimney. 3. Southern gate: tower's outside timber. 4. Southwest of villa staircase: roof beside brick chimney. Tuscany / San...
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