14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft has confirmed that those who will buy the first downloadable content pack for Assassin's Creed II on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft or on the PlayStation 3 from Sony will not be able to get any new Achievements or Trophies from playing it.
The package will cost 320 Microsoft Points or 4 dollars. The Battle of Forli will offer six new segments of memory that can be recovered and will see Ezio pair up with Machiavelli and with Caterina Sforza in an effort to take down the Orsi family.
The Battle of Forli sits pretty snug in the middle of the single player campaign of Assassin's Creed II and its arrival so close after the release of the main game has prompted some to speculate that the developers at Ubisoft might have actually taken out the six memories from the initial release in order to be able to charge players later on for something they should have already received. The gameplay in The Battle of Forli is pretty similar to that of the rest of the game so players who have enjoyed it are well served to pick it up. Ubisoft has said that it plans to release a second DLC pack for Assassin's Creed II, called The Bonfire of Vanities, which will have a plot line built around the burning of sacrilegious objects, probably books, somewhere in Florence. The package should be outed in late February.
Ubisoft is also preparing to release a new installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise that is set to come before March 2011, introducing a new multiplayer mode for the first time in the series while retaining Ezio as the main playable character. The PC version of Assassin's Creed II is also set to arrive in March and will contain both the DLC packs launched until then on gaming consoles.