Today Ubisoft organized the Assassin's Creed II Fan Day in Italy, showing the game to an audience of 100 people drawed in a competition. One of our users was at the event, and reported to us with many new infos on the game about Desmond's involvement and new action gameplay, Ezio's youth in the game and much more. Warning: this article reveals important details about the game's early stages, so read it only if you don't care being spoiled.

• Ubisoft showed some footage of the game, and then drawed one lucky person from the public to play it live on stage.
• They announced the already known short live action movies, made by the recently acquired studio Hybride Technologies, makers of the fx for Sin City and 300. The movies show the story of Ezio's father, an assassin for the Medici family.
• The game starts with an action gameplay sequence set in the present, showing Desmond and Lucy Stillman escaping from Abstergo Industries. Desmond has to fight his way out against several guards. He's then taken to the Assassins den, where he must train to become one of them. He'll have to use the Animus to be trained.
• Once in the past, the game starts with a young Ezio wandering in Florence, trying to pick girls up and randomly brawling with people. He then meets Leonardo da vinci.
• Pickpocketing is much easier, and we can steal moneys to pay the medic when we're hurt, buy new costumes and weapons.
• Ezio's color changes from grey when he's perfectly hidden to colored when the guards are aware of his presence.
• Quest types as a young boy range from couriering documents for his father, accompanying his mother around and searching for eagle feathers for his younger brother.
• In Venice there'll be three factions that we can make friends or enemies, by helping or opposing them. They are Pronstitutes, Thiefs, Mercenaries.
• Once in Venice, Ezio meets the Pronstitutes head which trains him in the arts of hiding and theft
• The story will cover 30 years in Ezio's life, so we'll see his path from youth to becoming a cold-blooded assassin. This will be alternated with the present day story, which will be very deep too.
• Graphics made a good leap, while the gameplay is like the one in the first game, but more open, various and less repetitive. Fights are very choreographic and spectacular.