450 people is the number of people working on Assassin's Creed 2, according to a NowGamer report quoting the game's producer, Sebastian Puel.

450 people! We wonder how many of those are coders and creatives...

"The team's size for the second title of Assassin's Creed 2 is about three times the size of the team of the first game", he said.

"Making [Assassin's Creed] from A to Z took around four years...it's a very good thing we are keeping most of the core members who envisioned the first Assassin's Creed. They know the project very well."

Triple the size! That's a good push, SPOnG reckons.

^{Source: NowGamer}