Bonuses and Unlockables
- Connection Bonus: connect to Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines on PSP to transfer money and weapons from defeated bosses into Assassin's Creed 2.
- Auditore Cape: get 100 feathers from the chest in your villa, then talk to your mother.
- Condottiero War Hammer: get 50 feathers to unlock it, purchasable for 30,600 florins from the Villa Blacksmith in Monteriggioni.
- Climbing Jump: complete Rosa's mission "Monkey See, Monkey Do" in Sequence 7: longer jumps when hanging by your hands, to reach otherwise unreachable spots.
- Disarm: complete Mario's mission "Evasive Maneuvers" in Sequence 5: you counterattack heavy weapons too, such as axes.
Renovating the Shops (3 levels each)
Renovating the 5 Villa shops increases its value and gives discounts. The blacksmith and the doctor are available at the start.
- Ant merchant (Antiquarian): 1,000, 5,000, 8,000 florins.
- Bank: 1,500, 5,000, 9,000. Tailor: 1,000, 2,500, 5,000.
- Blacksmith: first level available, 7,000, 12,000. Doctor: first available, 3,000, 5,000.
Tips
- Medicine and knives: check the bodies or rob people.
- Reusing axes and spears: if you lose an axe or a spear in an enemy during a counterattack, pick up the body and drop it right away to get the weapon back.
- Easy kills: before unlocking the smoke bomb, equip it and throw it; while the soldiers cough, kill them with the hidden blade.
Glyphs and Puzzle Solutions (Truth Files)
Use Eagle Vision to see the glyphs.
- 1 (Santa Croce, on a wall, standing on a ceiling): choose the painting with an apple.
- 2 (Ospedale degli Innocenti): rotate the circular piece from the smallest circle to the largest.
- 3 (La Rosa Colta): select the circular object in each photo.
- 4 (Villa Auditore, hanging from the ceiling): follow the steps to the letter.
- 5 (lower pool of Santa Maria Assunta, near the pillars): choose the painting with a sword.
- 6 (Salvucci Towers): rotate the circular puzzle from smallest to largest, noticing the two connected outer layers.
- 7 (Devil's Tower): choose the paintings with red (in any order).
- 8 (San Lorenzo): find the Piece of Eden (confirmation sound), place the flame on Joan of Arc on the world map and move the photo of Rasputin above that of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 9 (Mercato Vecchio): follow the tips to the letter, with the last "at 6 = 1".
- 10 (Monte Oliveto Maggiore): the Apollo Eagle lunar module on the Moon. Rotate the layers from the inside out until they line up (the first inner layer turns together with the fourth, the sixth likewise); the Piece of Eden is on the surface of the Moon.
- 11 (Ancient Roman Theater, under a stone arch, on the ground): select the light bulbs, light up the center of the photo above the corridor, then the trail of Nikola Tesla.
- 12 (Abbey of San Mercuriale, on a roof): line up red 4 with gray 1 on the wheel and enter the code; turn off the lights on the globe, select the orb in the next photo; last wheel: 1 = II, 2 = III, 3 = I.
- 13 (Venetian Outpost, base of the watchtower): wheels 5 = circle, square, square; 2 = circle; 3 = triangle; press the red button.
- 14 (under the Rialto Bridge, near the water): choose the paintings of the gods: Jupiter, Zeus, Cupid, the Swan and Europa.
- 15 (Venice Thieves Guild, near the wooden gate): work from the inside out on the connected layers: from 1 to 6, the two in the middle and from 4 to 5.
- 16 (St. Mark's Campanile, on the floor): the answers are Naples, Alaska, Greece and Tunguska; then hit the photo with the bracket.
- 17 (Clock Tower, on the floor): 7 = broken square symbol, 9 = six-sided clock symbol, 1 = square with a small square inside.
- 18 (San Pietro di Castello, on a wall, standing on a roof that is not the highest): rotate 6 = M or YYY, 0 = chalice symbol, 3 = <; then move the symbol onto the blood-colored vases to finish the photo.
- 19 (back of a wall beside the Scuola Grande di San Marco): choose the paintings with a sun: Aztec Calendar, Easter Door, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Nazca Cloth and Book of the Dead; then identify the part of the photo with the sun with the most radiation.
- 20 (San Giacomo di Rialto, from the roof near a fire): work from the inside out: the second inner layer and the fifth outer layer are disconnected; identify the sun and line up the code as you like. In the final puzzle move the cursor over the skeletons to turn the monkey's into a human.
Easy Awards and References
- Fly Swatter: during the "Flying Machine" mission, lock onto a target with L2 and press Square when it is in front of you to hit it.
- Kleptomaniac: find a herald to reduce your notoriety (500 florins), then rob him right away to get the 500 florins back and more. Repeat 2 times with other heralds.
- No-hitter: unlock the smoke bomb and buy 3 bombs. Start a fight with other guards up to 10 enemies, throw a smoke bomb and kill as many guards as possible with the hidden blade; when the effect ends, throw the next one.
- Mario reference: at the start of Sequence 3, while you escort Maria and Claudia to the villa, Uncle Mario saves you from the Pazzi: "Don't you recognize me? It's me, Mario!".
Awards (Trophies)
- Silver: Welcome to the Animus 2.0, DNA Sequences 1 to 11 and 14 (for example The Pain of Betrayal, Vengeance, The Merchant of Venice, The Prophet, The Vault), Bleeding Effect (complete the training and re-enter the Animus), Undertaker (Assassin's Tomb under Santa Maria Novella).
- Bronze: Myth Maker (8 statuettes in Monteriggioni), Vitruvian Man (all 20 pieces of the "Subject 16" video), Street Cleaner (5 corpses hidden in hay), Messer Sandman (stun 4 guards with sand), Sweeper (5 guards with a long weapon), Kleptomaniac, No-hitter, Lightning Strike (run 100 meters), High Dive (Leap of Faith from the Florence Bell Tower), In Memory of Petruccio (all the feathers), Victory Lies in Preparation (all hidden weapons, pouches and armor), Podestà of Monteriggioni (80% of the Stronghold's value), the Assassin's Tombs (Santa Maria della Visitazione, Torre Grossa, St. Mark's Basilica, Rocca di Ravaldino, Duomo).
