Previews: Assassin’s Creed 2

Same hoodie, new guy in this stealth sequel.

They do say fashion comes around in cycles - somehow flares occasionally become chic again, and subsequently need to be stamped out like a flaming bag of dog muck on a doorstep. Similarly, it turns out that Altair’s iconic look has swung back into the Assassins’ style bible, some 300 years after the original Assassin’s Creed, during the Italian Renaissance.