Assassins Creed Brotherhood

Ubisoft does it again with the squeal to the popular Assassins Creed 2 with Assassins Creed Brotherhood. AC Brotherhood continues off at exactly the same moment that number 2 left off bringing forth the second half of Ezio Auditore Da Firenze's life onto your system. This time however Ezio is ready to settle down and finally hang up his hidden blades for good... But no good game would allow that to happen as soon after his arrival back to the villa it comes under attack from the Borgia ultimately destroying the villa and taking the town with a massive army leading Ezio to Rome; the centre of corruption and power in renaissance Italy.

You're job as a master assassin is to rebuild the brotherhood and take the fight to the Borgia by hunting down all of the Borgias and wiping them out once and for all and establishing order in Italy. You're job is too hunt them down using the skills you have learned throughout the years and even ones that you learn throughout playing the game and put and end to the Borgia with the help of some new assassins recruits you gain along the way. You must destroy Borgia towers which loom over different districts causing a shadow of misery where they stand leaving Ezio to destroy them and open up shops giving it new life and stamping out the Borgia influence.

As you go through the story as mentioned before you will recruit and train assassins by using them in your fights or sending them on contracts that are actual historical events differing in difficulty and eventually level them from a level 1 recruit to a level 10 assassin and making them almost as deadly as Ezio himself when used right. However the AI needs some work and much of the game still feel incomplete such as mouths that don't move when they are talking or guards randomly kneeling on a banister or running into a wall and sometimes even walking right off the edge of a building for no reason and the horses look atrocious and unpolished and there movements just don't feel natural.

The story is still complex and cool as it has always been but in AC brotherhood it is concentrating directly on Ezio but at the same time offering alittle more in the story of Desmond Miles which is now able to free roam somewhat in 2012 Monteriggioni which is sad almost as in 500 years nothing really has changed aside from a few cars and Vespas... however the option is there aswell as the ability to repeat memories.

However despite it's bad sides it also has quite a few good sides such as multiplayer and character continuation. The multiplayer is extremely addicting as there are a few game modes such as Wanted, Alliance and a few others giving you more points for assassinating your target in more spectacular ways and how many you get instead of just how many you get in the end. This is good as it keeps the game fresh and it keeps you on the edge of you're seat as there is always someone hunting you while you hunt someone else and it brings a whole unseen kind of gameplay the the multiplayer world.

If you are an Assassins Creed fan this is definitely a buy or if you are someone looking too start you then I recommend you buy Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood in order to fully grasp Ezios story if that is what you are after.