The main complaint about the first Assassin's Creed was its lack of mission variety, and that's the kind of thing that's hard to judge in a 10-minute E3 demo. But we have no complaints about what we saw -- it looked fantastic and had enough new to keep it from feeling just like the first game.

When we say it looked fantastic, we mean: When the demo begins, you're just sitting on a bench watching a festival in the background, and it's visually one of the most impressive scenes we've ever seen in a game, with people dancing and milling about in colorful costumes as you inch your way through the crowds.