OXCGN's historian takes a look at the two games featuring Venice of the same period, Assassin's Creed 2 and Venetica . . Slip over take a good read and also check out the 4 vids there . . well worth the trip and viewing

Ah Venice…There’s just something so magical and surreal about the place. Featured in films from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade to James Bond: Casino Royale and games like Timesplitters: Future Perfectand The Club, it presents a perfect exotic local in which to set escapist entertainment.

Forgive me for the following nostalgia trip, but I arrived in Venice by boat a young 17 year old way back in 1989, the morning after a live Pink Floyd concert (these days you can watch it on Youtube).

Rueing my bad luck at having missed that, I disembarked to find the magnificent historic buildings and tranquil waters offset by the humongous amount of rubbish and filth everywhere and an unholy heat and stink that I’d never before experienced. A plague of pigeons that would have made great extras in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and a mob of other tourists harassed our every move in the squares

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