wikipedia: assassins creed 2 is "considered to be one of greatest games ever made".

I love Black Flag and think it is the most fun AC game, but I think AC2 is easily the best game in the series overall. Incredible story, characters, design, etc.

But one of the best games ever...maybe. If that is your thing. That is impossible to judge. How are we comparing across eras? I think story is incredibly important but so is game design. A game should be fun to play and tell a good story. They should also look good or have a nice art style but that is very relative. A beautiful game in the 90s like Final Fantasy VIII or Ocarina of Time look kinda shite now. AC2 definitely ticks the boxes of having a good story, good game design, and good graphics for the time but even as a huge fan of the AC series I don't know if AC2 cracks my top 10...but it's firmly in the top 20 for me.

I think Vice City is still the best GTA game in terms of fun, art style, story, and overall game design, but if people play it in the context of today's games maybe it sucks. Red Dead Redemption 2 got a lot of hype as the greatest game ever so who knows.

It doesn't matter what critics think about it.

I've never played a single game in this franchise, but ultimately only subjective opinion matters when it comes to art.

I truly do not understand why people care about metacritic scores, or rotten tomatoes or anything like that.

Objective opinion does not exist when it comes to games, movies, etc.

To me, none of the AC games without the theater mode where you walk round and learn historical facts about the locale and the era can be considered better than the games that do include that mode. This puts 2 down the list for me.

However, Ezio's entire saga with the modern day Desmond sequences was fantastic. IMO, they haven't been able to recapture the magic with the modern day sequences since then.