14 DAY TRIAL // Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has just been launched by Ubisoft, after being developed by Ubisoft Montreal, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and will appear next year for the PC platform.
One of the big new features for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the possibility of recruiting your own assassins and have them do jobs so that they progress and become as skilled as you.
This is definitely a very interesting mechanic, as just selecting enemy troops and pressing a button in order for your assassins to spring into action makes you feel almost invincible.
Even at the first level your assassins are quite powerful, but you must endeavor into a sort of mini-game, where you send them all over Europe to complete missions that benefit the Assassin Brotherhood, thus gaining more experience and increasing in levels.
They start at level 1 and can progress up to level 10, when they will become full pledged assassins, after you complete a special ceremony.
While the whole idea is pretty great, and the execution is good, the game doesn't exactly keep you connected with your assassins, as you only interact with them when you save them from the guards, at first, and then when you turn them into full pledged members of the brotherhood.
In between these moments, they are basically objects that must be farmed in order to grow in level.
Even if the Assassin's Creed franchise received a Facebook game, in the form of Project Legacy, I think this assassin growing mini-game (AssassinsVille, anyone?) would've made a better choice.
When you send your troops in missions, you even have a timer associated with them, to know when they return and will be available for another mission.
What I did was basically stand near a pigeon coop, which is the nerve center of your whole Brotherhood (this is the Renaissance, remember?), give missions to assassins, and then put the controller down and do other things until they returned.
This is even more simple as most of the missions last about 10 minutes or so, depending on the difficulty, so expanding and upgrading your assassins basically becomes a chore.
What did you think about this special feature of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood? Were you more attached to your disciples or were they just objects your used in your quests?