The first Assassin’s Creed features a bartender named Desmond Miles who is snatched off the street by modern masters of mayhem who are mysteriously connected to the ancient Knights Templar. And then it adds in enough ancient intrigue and religious conspiracy twists to make Dan Brown wish he’d dreamed it all up for his next novel. Assassin’s Creed II contains much of what made Assassin’s Creed an 8 million unit seller-lots of crowd-blending, wall-clambering, murderous missions.