IncGamers' Tamer Asfahani spends a few hours in the company of Assassin's Creed 2.
From the preview: "With each faction come mini 'objective-based' games, perhaps better referred to as side missions. These range from delivering a message or picking up a box, to roughing someone up. You'll be financially rewarded for completing these missions, but, when compared to looting bodies, booty boxes or people on the street, it isn't much, so it's a good thing that financial gain really isn't the point of these side missions. What is interesting, though, is that in my two hours of playing the game, I didn't come across a mission I'd played before. A far cry from the original."
GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."
This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).
GF365: "Most games are not perfect and that may be because of a character or an enemy. Here are 10 mediocre bosses in great games."
The Pursuer from Dark Spuls 2 was great, I think the author just sucks at games.
The repetition was about the only thing I had against Assassin's Creed, but I hated that so much it really brought the game down for me. This sounds like they've taken all the criticism on board, thankfully.
Still not totally convinced by this to be honest but maybe as you say all points have been noted by the dev team.