It took me 10 years to realize you could just do this...

Normally we just instantly chase and eliminate Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro but if you pay close attention to the camera during the cutscene, it actually indirectly points towards a secret route to catch them off guard.
This is high quality creative Assassin's Creed 2 gameplay.

[brigadier-tc]

And this is why you don't teach your players that alternative paths will only fail the mission... Ubisoft!!!!

[ijustworkhere]

Meanwhile in 99% of the other chase missions they hit you with the “reduce distance to target” until you desynchronise

[chimeratheo]

a) didn't realize you could take that route
b) didn't realize you could assassinate via hanging
c) what was that door and where did it lead to

[americandissident]

This would have been so immersive. Ezio is an assassin, not a cop chasing a suspect. The target would have basically seen Ezio in the melee, and took off running, only to arrive in a safe location having not seen Ezio anywhere behind him in chase at all. Then Ezio appears from above.

[bobjason]

This is what the offical game manual says to do

[Tyler_Evans]

Playing AC2 without a hud is surprisingly gorgeous. I wish they'd give this game the full remaster treatment

[yoavbenclaudia]

Ezio is like: “I’m not playing these games.”

[TREMOR]

This really a "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" moment

[Rckmans]

A masterclass showcase on the creative freedom the player could employ in assassination missions in AC1 and AC2.

[dc]

probably something lore accurate Ezio would do

[mantisreturns]

You should wait to them getting into the ship, then you Will get uniques dialogues.

[Naverdo]

If you play AC1 theres a straightforward way to do the assassinations but if you complete all the side missions before that the game gives you clues about recommended path to take, location of guards etc to make it wayy easier than it is.

Its always been ubisofts intention(during their golden era alteast) to have a lore accurate way of doing things

[Arno_Frye-Auditore]

Pro tip: on a ship, up on the mast, where you stopped mid sprint (0:43) if you manual jump forward, you'll tranzition more smoothly...

[dizzyheads]

An assassin in Assassin's Creed doing assassin things is so cool

[zoubeirfaouzi]

You know what I found out years later. If you go back to his old house. You can see his whole family again.

[KasumiRINA]

This is amazing, and makes me wish they remastered Assassin's Creed 2 with replayable story missions and hopefully less bullet spongy guards later.

[yjiokhi]

You know how in the Marco Barbarigo assassination, Dante Moro is an unbeatable guard that the game puts in your path to make it impossible to get out of detection by killing all the guards?

I killed him by colliding with him near water. It's fun breaking the lore like this.

[Sammy_Scratch]

Incredible! It looks like it should be done this way

[SirSaperon]

Non TemiEte l'OscurIta, accietAte il suo abràci-o

[srdjanstevanovic]

I love that GTA 4 mission when you are meeting someone in a torn down old hospital ruin, to sell a lot of drugs, only to get ambushed by like 50 swat operatives... you can actually(really tricky) enter the building alternatively from the back of the complex, plus climb the broken benches(scaffolding?? Not sure about the word) by jumping straight up from a huge wooden wheel-like object, grabbing onto a wooden board that used to hold the ceiling and climbing up Assassin'a s Creed style(really really tricky). That way you find yourself on the destroyed upper level/first floor/ of the ruined structure, leveled with the heavy-hitting swat guys. Normally, you would stumble through the ground-floor hallways while being destroyed by gunfire from the floor above, but this way(even if maybe not even intended) you are dealing with the ambush in a pretty different, unique way.