Assassins Creed Brotherhood Review

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

Assassins Creed Brotherhood sees you taking control of Ezio right after the events of Assassin's Creed II. He's spared the life of Rodrigo Borgia, which turns out to be a bad move when the Pope's murderous son Cesare turns up unannounced in Monteriggioni and nabs the Apple of Eden back. Realising he was wrong to show the Borgia any kind of mercy, Ezio heads to Rome to gut the family of corrupt nobles. This time round  the story is much smaller in its dramatic scale than the previous game.

Assassins Creed Brotherhood is a lot shorter but is structured differently to Assassins Creed II.
This time it is set in a single city but there are an abundance of side missions that make up for the shorter story length.

AC Brotherhood

After two other games you still never seem to get tired of the joy of sprinting up the side of a building, grabbing a ledge and scrabbling up until you're hopping across rooftops. Even more so when there's a guard ready to be toppled off a building.

Away from missions, there's a greater emphasis on collectibles and upgrades. Rather than building up Monteriggioni, you're cleaning up the various districts of Rome and buying up stores and landmarks.

Brotherhood lets you recruit Assassins. It's an enjoyable distraction as you manage their missions and skills, watching them grow to efficient weapons of death. Using them will also help you go undetected.

There is a multiplayer mode which adds serious value to the package. Brotherhood's multiplayer is built by the same guys who conceived Spies vs. Mercs for Splinter Cell. This is more about stalking than rewarding split-second reactions.

While Assassins Creed Brotherhood is not as spectacular as Assasins Creed II and the plot is not as sprawling, there is as much to do as the previous games and has some of the best missions in the series and has a great multiplayer.