There are video game protagonists, and then there is . For nearly a decade, the charming Florentine nobleman has remained the gold standard for character growth in open-world gaming. But if you have tried to go back to Assassin’s Creed II , Brotherhood , or Revelations recently, you know the struggle: dated textures, finicky PC port settings, and the dreaded "GFWL" (Games for Windows Live) ghost that haunts older copies.