Assassin’s Creed II is a third person action title developed and published by Ubisoft for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. Now the company has revealed that Assassin’s Creed II is endowed with the Gamer’s Edition Guinness World Record in the category of ‘most cover-featured video game’.
According to the company, Assassin’s Creed II was noted to be utilized as the lead cover story on 127 different publications in 32 various countries. The time-frame observed was between April 2009 and April 2010. In the United Kingdom itself, the press campaign for the action-adventure title acquired over 340 pages of specialist press coverage, 17 front covers and 14 review awards in the one-year period.
Gaz Deaves, Editor of Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition explained, “The evidence submitted by Ubisoft was extremely thorough, with full details of every publication that featured the game. It’s been a pleasure researching this category and we were pleasantly surprised that Assassin’s Creed II took the record – I’m sure plenty of commentators (including myself) would have predicted another well-known game winning the title instead, and this achievement is even more impressive in view of the other 2009 releases that Assassin’s Creed II was able to beat.”
Alain Corre managing director EMEA at Ubisoft stated, “Assassin’s Creed is one of our most well-loved brands. The worldwide interest for the brand, coupled with the energy and creativity of our press team made for a winning combination and I am proud of receiving this Guinness World Record.”
The company also disclosed that the record will be shortlisted for the next iteration of the highly-acclaimed Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition.