Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Review PC

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Review

Although it has no digit in title, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood continues action exactly where to put the point Assassin's Creed 2, and from many points of view can be considered as Assassin's Creed 2.5.



So Ezio Auditore da Firenze, returns victorious from Rome after "the fight" with Rodrigo Borgia, the beginning of the story is apparently calm, the players can explore Villa Monteriggioni and to discover new things introduced into the Brotherhood such as "the elevators" or the possibility to use cannons.

"the fight" with Rodrigo Borgia

This quiet part ends quickly , Cesare Borgia, the son of Rodrigo, invade the city and kill Ezio uncle.So after manages to save the rest of his family, Ezio decides it's time to make a visit to Cesare in Rome.

All roads lead to Rome


Inside the Rome, you'll discover that it is the greatest city created in Assassin's Creed and is under martial law,the family Borgia "own" the 12 towers,each Tower It is under command of a"capitan".

The Borgias have spread their influence around Rome, and to undermine their rule, you have to destroy their edifices. Before you can do that, you must assassinate a commander(capitan) in the vicinity. In any case, once you have offed the key officer, you may climb to the top of the nearby tower and torch it. Afterward, you automatically take a leap of faith into a hay bale or wagon of leaves conveniently placed beneath.Theoretically that should bring an "add" to chapter variety, but these assassinations are trivial, because of the fighting remained sensational light.

Eliminating Borgia influence is important because you then gain access to local vendors, though this access isn't immediate. The economy, an interesting but messy feature in last year's installment, has been fleshed out in smart ways. As before, you must spend money to make money, but Brotherhood's catalog contains a lot of big-ticket items. If you want access to blacksmiths, doctors, tailors, and so on, you first must purchase and renovate their shops. Not only does renovating an empty storefront give you access to supplies, but it also begins to generate income. As you bring in money, you eventually purchase landmarks, which cost a tidy sum. In addition, the PC version includes an online investment feature. By holding the space bar on the map screen, you can see where other players are investing their money. Investing in a popular business increases the amount of cash you earn from it, and you earn specialty items when you reach certain investment milestones. You also find such items (prayer beads, diamonds, jars of leeches) when looting corpses and treasure chests, and when tackling escaping pickpockets. These items can be offered to designated vendors in return for high-quality weapons, tougher armor,etc

Despite of the desire of Niccolò Machiavelli, the order of the assassins is not prepared to give the chest with the Templars. Not yet. Therefore, your first goal will be to restore links with the three factions known – mercenaries, thieves and curtezanele – to have the help necessary to you can start issuing Rome.

All Chapter "New" we can include the possibility to use the horse inside the city, which will facilitate greatly the movement from one end of the map in the other, at least until the point in the network of tunnels that serve as the fast-travel system. And the Grand Theft Auto fans will certainly be pleased to know that if I see a horse more beautiful, you can " borrowit" :) and the horse can be used to trigger a assassinations "on the fly".

The most important change in single-player is placing the possibility to train other assassins to help during missions. Their number depends on how many of the destroyed towers Borgia, so you can have a maximum of 12 recruits. Once destroying a tower, you can save some citizens that then send throughout Europe to improve their skills, among must-see destinations, Vienna, Paris, London, Moscow, Lisbon, Constantinople or Barcelona.

Once an assassin moves forward in the level, you can choose to improve armor or weapons, armour is increasing her chances of survival, while every point in the branch of arms will make it more dangerous. . So an assassin in level 8 will need all of 11 minutes for a contract of 11XP, just like a recrut at level 1.

Call the assassins is done through a simple keystroke after you have determined the victims, making the entrance into the scene in different ways, either on the horse, either by jumping off the roof. To get a sync 100%, some missions even force you to use your assassins to remove targets.

Multiplayer

And potentially extending the life of the game still further is multiplayer. Each of Brotherhood's multiplayer modes (Wanted, Manhunt, Alliance, and Advanced Wanted) demand the same result: Assassinate the other player or target before you're assassinated by the other players in the match. As you progress through the online modes, you earn upgrades like better weapons, or the ability to detect your target in a crowd. There's a little bit of strategy, guessing, and luck to finding your target in the street and the maps themselves are not very large so you should be able to become familiar with all of the hiding places in just a few rounds.The multiplayer in the Brotherhood has a tremendous potential in the long term, the matches becoming increasingly more exciting as the players are familiar with the mechanics of the game. And if you and a few friends with which you can coordinate via Skype or Directv, the better, because you will be rewarded appropriately for a successful collaboration in the matches of "Manhunt", Alliance or Escort.

The inclusion of the crossbow, while fun, means that you no longer have to watch your step on rooftops. Once upon a time, the best tactic was to sneak up on guards for a blade kill or hang from the edge of the building and pull them off. No more. Just target them from the next rooftop over with the crossbow and they're dead. No fuss, and no real skill required.

CONCLUSION

Although you cannot say that is an impressive development over Assassin's Creed II, the Brotherhood is arguably a more EVOLVED version of the predecessor, and the introduction of a multiplayer transformed him into the best title of the series so far. I'm comfortable saying that another Assassin's Creed game will make my list of "favorite games of the year." and i can't wait to see what Ubisoft Montreal does next with the series.