⚔ Assassin's Creed II Poster UK — Ezio Auditore Wall Art

Ubisoft Montreal · Ezio Auditore da Firenze · Renaissance Italy · 2009 — confirmed at 98types from £3

Assassin's Creed II is the game that transformed a promising IP into a cultural phenomenon and Ezio Auditore da Firenze into one of gaming's most beloved protagonists. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in November 2009 for PS3 and Xbox 360, it received 89/100 on Metacritic and is consistently cited as the finest entry in one of gaming's largest franchises. The Assassin's Creed II poster at 98types is a confirmed individual product on 260gsm museum-grade archival matte paper: Renaissance Florence, Venice and Rome as wall art, the game that made historical architecture interactive. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

⚔ The World — Renaissance Italy

Assassin's Creed II is set in the Italian Renaissance — specifically the period from 1476 (the aftermath of the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici) through to 1499 (the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence and the climactic confrontation with the Templar Grand Master). The game's historical detail is remarkable: the Florence of Brunelleschi's dome and the Uffizi, the Venice of canals and Carnivale, the Rome of the Vatican and the Colosseum — each rendered with architectural accuracy and populated with a specific historical population.

Leonardo da Vinci as a supporting character is the game's most effective historical conceit. The real da Vinci designed flying machines, armoured vehicles, trebuchets and explosive mortars in his notebooks — the game takes these designs as literal working weapons that da Vinci builds for Ezio, connecting the player's fictional story to the real historical record in a way that motivated players to look up the actual notebooks. It is the finest example of historical game design functioning as genuine cultural education.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio is the son of a Florentine banker who witnesses his father and brothers executed on false charges of treason by the Pazzi, backed by the Templar conspiracy. He begins the game as a charming, privileged, slightly reckless young man whose introduction — a fistfight with a rival suitor on a Florentine bridge — establishes his character before the tragedy that transforms him. The subsequent thirty-year narrative of revenge, discovery and the gradual assumption of the Assassin mantle is the finest character arc in the franchise.

Ezio was voiced by Roger Craig Smith in English across all three games, and the character's charm, emotional range and specific Italian cultural identity — the warmth, the pride, the family loyalty — were rendered with enough consistency that he became the face of Assassin's Creed in a way that no subsequent protagonist has managed. The character later appeared in the spin-off Embers (2011), a short film depicting his retirement, which is genuinely moving and suggests how fully Ubisoft understood what made him work.

🗺 The Franchise After Ezio

The Assassin's Creed franchise after Revelations (2011) moved away from the Renaissance setting and the Ezio character toward increasingly expansive open worlds: Connor in colonial America (AC3, 2012), Edward Kenway in the Caribbean (Black Flag, 2013), Arno in Revolutionary Paris (Unity, 2014), Evie and Jacob Frye in Victorian London (Syndicate, 2015), Bayek in ancient Egypt (Origins, 2017), Alexios/Kassandra in ancient Greece (Odyssey, 2018), Eivor in Viking-age England (Valhalla, 2020) and Basim in ninth-century Baghdad (Mirage, 2023).

Of these, Assassin's Creed II remains the most critically acclaimed entry by a consistent margin — the game where the franchise's promise (historical tourism through the eyes of a morally complex operative) was most fully delivered. The poster honours this specific achievement: the Renaissance setting, the Florentine architecture, Ezio on the rooftops, the visual identity of the game that made the series.

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