Personally I find it deeply weird. Like, let’s turn some of my already-limited free time into something that feels more like work. No thank you.

It might be worth reading a synopsis of the AC1 plot to understand what is happening with the modern day storyline at the start of 2, but I wouldn’t play it first. AC1 is a fun game in its own way but it has a lot of weird repetitiveness in the way missions need to be completed that was streamlined in later games. Personally I played AC: Black Flag first as It was the newest when I started playing, then went back and started the series in order with AC1 and it was pretty jarring.

Never played hitman but start with Assassins Creed 2

But they’re really good at it

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