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.
Back when Brotherhood was officially announced by Ubisoft, the previous game, Assassin's Creed 2, was still fresh news for many gamers.
As such, many people believed that the French company will release a rushed sequel, with a tacked on story, and that only the multiplayer feature with provide something of interest.
Fortunately for Assassin's Creed fans, that isn't so.
Brotherhood has a lot of quality content, both in the single-player and the multiplayer modes, enough tol keep you entertained for over 20 hours, especially if you're a completionist like me.
As of right now, I've gone past the 20 hour mark, I own almost all of Rome, including landmarks like the Colosseum or the Pantheon, and I'm still not near the end of the main single-player story.
While the range of activities available to you aren't very well connected, you get the feeling that the development team at Ubisoft Montreal threw in some of their more crazy ideas, which didn't have a chance to appear in the second game.
This is particularly true in the missions given to you by Leonardo da Vinci, where you must destroy war machines ranging from machine guns, to flying bombers or naval canons.
Your platforming skills will also be put to the test by Brotherhood's own (and arguably better) take on the assassin tombs from the second game, the Romulus lairs.
Their action is more varied and the various challenges that appear, like completing a maze in just 8 minutes, will really test your skills.
You also have challenges from different allies, like the Courtesans, Thieves or Mercenaries, like killing 10 guards from a ledge, hiding 5 bodies in bales of hay, or things like that, which make you use different tactics in combat.
Last but not least, you have the multiplayer feature, which will certainly keep you on your toes and test your assassin skills, in order to kill other players while staying as inconspicuous as possible.
Overall, don't go thinking Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a rushed sequel, as the game offers a wide array of things, as well as an intricate single-player story, but also an intense multiplayer feature.