Assassin's Creed II

I stalk him. He never suspects.
My steps quicken, a futile attempt to catch the pace of my pounding heart. Like a fat child chasing its fleeing deadbeat parent.
I smell the dirt, the flavors, the stink of humans. It violates my nose and teases my focus. Of no concern.
I cradle the bracer with my free hand. Soon. Soon, it will be.
He stops, unawares. Ripe. Exposed.
I gather my nerve and prepare to...Connection to server lost. Trying to reconnect and reload last checkpoint.

Support summary

Grades:-

Widescreen: A
Multi-Monitor: A

Tested Version:

Retail US release with patch 1.01 applied

Screen change:

Anamorphic

Widescreen Method:

Native

Hud Stretch:

None

Multi-monitor Method:

Native

Multi-monitor HUD:

Optimized

Rendered cut-scenes:

Anamorphic

FMV cut-scenes:

Anamorphic

Additional WSGF Links:

Game information

Release Date:

Thursday, 4 March, 2010

Game status:

Released

Setting:

Sci-Fi, Historical Fantasy

Genre:

Stealth, Action-Adventure

Play styles:

Single player

Developer:

Ubisoft

Developer feedback:

Links:

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Metacritic ⋅ Moby Games ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅

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Solutions & Anomalies

Solution

Native.
The game is a combination of 16:9 anamorphism and Hor + behavior in widescreen resolutions.
All aspect ratios narrower than 16:9 use letterboxing to maintain a 16:9 aspect ratio and all aspect ratios wider than 16:9 use a combination of Hor + behavior and pillarboxing.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution

3D Solution

Single player anomalies

There are some fixed-camera events in the game that have pillarboxing in aspect ratios wider than 16:9. A video link of the behavior is provided below.
http://www.wsgfmedia.com/tanuki/AssassinsCreedIIGame.AVI
The HUD and all two-dimensional elements do not stretch in widescreen resolutions and have a fixed position based upon a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Rendered cut-scenes are a combination of 16:9 anamorphism and pillarboxing in widescreen resolutions. All aspect ratios narrower than 16:9 use letterboxing to maintain a 16:9 aspect ratio and all aspect ratios wider than 16:9 use pillarboxing.
Pre-rendered cut-scenes use 16:9 anamorphism to display in widescreen resolutions. Some of the cut-scenes have encoded letterboxes which results in windowboxing in aspect ratios wider than 16:9.

Multiplayer anomalies

There is no multiplayer in this game.

3D anomalies

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