Assassin's Creed II PC Dated, Specs Revealed

Earlier today, Ubisoft sent over the technical specifications of Assassin's Creed II for the PC. The company also revealed that the game is slated to ship in North America on March 16, 2010, and will come in two flavors: Standard and a Black Edition.

According to Ubisoft's email, the Standard retail and digital version includes the game and extra sequences (Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities) for $59.99. The Black Edition will be digital only, and will include everything found in the Standard version along with "additional content" for $64.99.

As for the system specs, Ubisoft said that Assassin's Creed II supports ATI's Radeon X1950 and the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series out of the box. On the Nvidia front, the game supports the GeForce 7/8/9/100/200 series at time of release.

Minimum Configuration:

  • SUPPORTED OS: Windows XP (32-64 bits) / Windows Vista (32-64 bits) / Windows 7 (32-64 bits)
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz
  • RAM: 1.5 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista - Windows 7
  • Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 -compliant sound card
  • DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0
  • DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
  • Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
  • Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller
  • * This product does not support Windows 98/ME/2000/NT

Recommended Configuration:

  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
  • Video Card: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
  • Sound: 5.1 sound card
  • Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)
  • lasaldude
    Wow! How Are The Nvidia Cards Equivalent To The ATI Cards Aren't The 4700's In A Different Gen Than The 8800's? Just Asking?
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  • welshmousepk
    played this game to death on the 360, its one of my favorite console games. can't wait to have the PC game looking awesome :D
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  • duckmanx88
    lasaldudeWow! How Are The Nvidia Cards Equivalent To The ATI Cards Aren't The 4700's In A Different Gen Than The 8800's? Just Asking?
    click on the gpu charts at the top of the page. nice comparisons there.
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  • falchard
    Its probably because writing:
    ATI HD2900, HD3870, HD4770 - HD4890, HD5670 - HD5970
    nVidia 8800 GT/S(G92), 8800GTX, 9600GT(Not GSO), 9800, GTS250 - GTX295

    Is too confusing and long.
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  • xero9200
    What is up with PC games costing $60 now? It used to be a $50 premium for new games, then somewhere along the lines they decided, "Hey, why not match our console prices even though we make the same profit on both?, If they'll pay $50, they'll pay $60" WRONG! I already hesitate to spend $50 on a game, but $60 crosses the line...I wonder how many more copies they'd sell if games were new at $30...
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  • buzznut
    Nice. Its about time we are able to put our hardware to good use. The consoles really do seem to be holding back pc games for now.

    One can only hope for pc exclusive titles and new consoles in the pipeline.
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  • xero9200
    ...one more thing. All this special edition crap is annoying. Just make one standard game and be done with it! Sorry, just thought this would be a good time to vent my thoughts on this ;)
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  • the associate
    Yea seriously, and is 59.99 USA's price? if so were paying 10 bucks more up north. These companies are just scamming us since back in the late 90's we were paying 70+ for N64 and PS1 games, I wouldn't be surprised if in 1 year it will be 69.99 for premium games, oh wait, it already is in canada for console games.

    They will keep doing this as long as there are idiots buying these games at the jacked prices. For those who will flame me for calling them (or you) idiots, you'll stfu when games are 80 bucks, won't you?
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  • HKH
    If the additional content isn't a "nude version"
    Then it ain't worth 10 bucks
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  • andrewcutter
    price of everything goes up inevitable i guess. whether it is worht that price is up to the market to decide. NO matter how much we argue we are still going to get it. PLus it doent look bad. The console version if 60 dollars. the 2 extra dlc are at 4 doll each so the total is around 68 dollars. We are getting that at around 60. So though the pc price have gone up so have the console
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