Yesterday was Assassin?s Creed II?s 10th anniversary; the game originally launched on November 17th, 2009. With extremely positive reviews and high sales, Assassin?s Creed II went on to establish the franchise as one of Ubisoft?s powerhouses. A new game in the series would proceed to come out every year after for the next six years. One of the elements that made it remembered so is Jesper Kyd?s soundtrack. Featuring many themes that would go on to be used and reused in the series, it?s one of those soundtracks that makes for great listening while doing other tasks even outside of the game (like, say, writing this article). Now Kyd is celebrating the anniversary by releasing 17 unreleased songs from the Assassin?s Creed II soundtrack.
The unreleased tracks, collected under a Soundcloud playlist called ?Assassin?s Creed II: Rare Tracks,? contain several variations on tracks that did appear in the game. For example, the first track is ?Earth Song Demo (Featuring Melissa Kaplan)? is a different version of the song ?Earth,? a track that uses the leitmotifs that would ultimately make their way throughout the series. This version contains singing by Melissa Kaplan from the band Splashdown. It gives an interesting look as to what the song originally was before it was changed to a lyricless version for the final game.
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