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[spidye]

"Live and breathe as Ezio, now a legendary master assassin, in his struggle against the Templar order. Lead your own brotherhood of Assassins and strike at the heart of the enemy. Rome.

"And for the first time, take part in an innovative multiplayer layer allowing you to embody an assassin of your choosing and define their killing style.

"A never-before-seen online multiplayer experience.

"Lead your own brotherhood of assassins, as Ezio, and conquer Rome."

http://kotaku.com/5531849/gamestop-placeholder-art-names-assassins-creed-brotherhood

well, what do you guys think?

Update: "Ubisoft confirms the authenticity of this image and will provide more information next week."

NEW info thanks to Rated-Rsuperstar

Got my PTOM in the mail. Here's some details from the magazine.

-Singleplayer follows Ezio who's 45 now trying to rid Rome of the Borgia clan.
-Cesare Borgia is the main bad guy. He's the son of AC2's main villian.
-Game takes place entirely in Rome. Rome is 4 times the size of Venice and is divided into 4 districts.
-Ezio can recruit characters off the street to aid in missions. Experience points can be spend to build up their skills.
-Combat is mostly the same but the player can now chain kills together in rapid succession.
-Collectible items and secret location challenges return.
-The meta game of building up the Villa in AC2 is now the entirety of Rome.
-You can do assassinations from your horse now.
-Leonardo Da Vinci is back along with new and returning gadgets.
-Multiplayer is separate from singleplayer but the story crosses over into both.
-Multiplayer will include adversarial, team based, and objective based modes.
-Multiple classes with unique weapons and assassinations.
-There's a point system which allows you to upgrade your multiplayer character.
-Adversarial mode drops 6-8 players in a map where your assigned a target to kill. Another player is assigned you as the target. So there's a constant cat and mouse going on.

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

well, what do you guys think?

This makes it sound like Brotherhood is campaign and MP, if so:

 

[Varth]

So basically they ripped from ACII the multiplayer experience they talked about in the first interviews, and are selling it as a separate game. Sounds Ubisoft to me.

 

[Peff]

Yeah, Rome was also supposed to be in AC2, but if it is well fleshed out it wouldn't be so bad. Wait and see.

 

[jett]

So basically they ripped from ACII the multiplayer experience they talked about in the first interviews, and are selling it as a separate game. Sounds Ubisoft to me.

They ripped out two chapters to sell off as DLC, how is this surprising?

 

[Varth]

It's not surprising me in any way, frankly. I actually placed a bet with some friends this would happen.
Only thing left to understand is the nature of the game. I predicted it would have been an MP only game, but by the looks of the box, they may have thrown in some DLC-sized single player adventures with the excuse of the various characers.

 

[Reilly]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/108/1087949p1.html

Confirmed. More info coming next week.

 

[macfoshizzle]

http://kotaku.com/5531849/gamestop-placeholder-art-names-assassins-creed-brotherhood

well, what do you guys think?

yep thats basically what my friend told me. I'm just stoked about the free roaming multiplayer... the part where you have to find the other player within the crowd and assassinate him will be great!

It's not Assassin's Creed III. It's Brotherhood. And it's the same lame thing what Ubisoft did with the Brothers in Arms series. They relased the first part, and after that, just published the sequel very quickly. But that was just like a little bit more than a mission disk, and developed from a side team. The proper development team already worked on Hell's Highway, which in this case, probably gonna be the same (a side team doing Brotherhood, and the proper team working on a proper sequel, ACIII).

you could be right. but from what ive heard, AC 3 was already in full development and when AC 2 was done, they went straight into AC 3. but who the hell knows? my friend said its AC 3 so im not going to argue.

Also off topic.. Rainbow 6 is coming out next year

 

[Costanza]

http://kotaku.com/5531849/gamestop-placeholder-art-names-assassins-creed-brotherhood

well, what do you guys think?

Do want. I hope it continues Desmond's story, but it looks like it's just a mission pack to tide us over.

 

[V_Ben]

Update from Kotaku regarding Brotherhood;

Update: An Ubisoft representative has responded, confirming the image as real.

"Ubisoft confirms the authenticity of this image and will provide more information next week."

You heard the rep, more details on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood next week. Stay tuned!

Next Week!

 

[Snuggles]

So Brotherhood is a stand alone game? I sold AC2 once I finished it, it was good but I had no desire to replay.
If I can play it without AC2 disc I'll probably give it a go.

 

[Massa]

Why doesn't this have its own thread?

Anyway, I'm curious to learn more about this game and what amount of new content it will have.

Do want. I hope it continues Desmond's story, but it looks like it's just a mission pack to tide us over.

Personally I'd be glad if there's zero Desmond in it.

 

[V_Ben]

Why doesn't this have its own thread?

Anyway, I'm curious to learn more about this game and what amount of new content it will have.



Personally I'd be glad if there's zero Desmond in it.

I'll make a thread for it. Suppose its news.

 

[EviLore]

Why doesn't this have its own thread?

Why indeed. Megathread syndrome strikes again. Threads split.

 

[hyduK]

I'll wait and see on this. I never played the first, and I borrowed the second from a friend but haven't really been able to get too into it. The mechanics are pretty cool but it feels so repetitive (I'd hate to see how repetitive the first was, since that was the aspect they apparently fixed).

 

[Dennis]

Will buy for Rome

Open-world wins again

 

[Ikkarus]

Just playing through ACII now and I'm really enjoying it so this news is a nice surprise.

I do hope Ubisoft focus more on the main story than multi-player however. As much as it is nice to play online I'm really enjoying the single player experience and would hate to see it get tarnished.

I wonder if Ubisoft will go crazy on limited editions again. I rather liked my Black Edition version and would love to see them push the boat again for Brotherhood.

 

[Wario64]

Exclusive character should be Solid Snake

 

[Jocchan]

Currently loving Assassin's Creed 2. I will end up biting, I guess.

Exclusive character should be Solid Snake

Don't give them ideas

 

[JdFoX187]

Trying to finish up the game now. I loved both Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed II, but I really hope they don't give me franchise fatigue with these spinoffs. Though I guess Ubisoft needed something big with this holiday season since they were releasing the new Prince of Persia to go along with the movie. Hope a true Assassin's Creed III with a new lead character comes out some time next year and this is just a ODST-style expansion.

 

[ChoklitReign]

If there's any single player aspect to this, it must be an epilogue to AC2 and I hope it's bargain priced.

 

[Pooya]

I really loved ACII and Rome is a great setting, I have no idea how the multiplayer is going to be, lock on to the other players, run and whoever that pushed the button first jumps on the other player and stabs him in the neck?!

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Exclusive character should be Solid Snake

It'll be some dumb shit like Sam Fisher or the Prince from Prince of Persia.

 

[Struct09]

AC2 was my 2009 GOTY, so I'll definitely be checking this out

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Although I enjoyed Rome, I really wish they would have chosen another location. Maybe Egypt, somewhere in Asian, Australian desert, whatever. Just somewhere different.

 

[alr1ght]

Uncharted 2's multiplayer shines when played with stealth. This could be good.

 

[Huevos de Oro]

I'm down for this one as well. Not too keen on multiplayer, but willing to give it a try before jumping to conclusions.

 

[Dennis]

Although I enjoyed Rome, I really wish they would have chosen another location. Maybe Egypt, somewhere in Asian, Australian desert, whatever. Just somewhere different.

Well, this is just a quick cash-in so staying in Italy was a given.

AC3 will of course be something new.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Well, this is just a quick cash-in so staying in Italy was a given.

AC3 will of course be something new.

True. Still, not sure how much they can do with Rome, at least not enough to warrant a $60 purchase? Hopefully I will be wrong.

 

[Aesius]

Rental.

 

[Dennis]

True. Still, not sure how much they can do with Rome, at least not enough to warrant a $60 purchase? Hopefully I will be wrong.

wat?

Its full price? :lol I thought it was a 30-40$ stand-alone expansion deal.

Only Rome for 60$? When AC2 gave us 50 hours of game?

 

[Iksenpets]

Yearly sequel + rehashing characters and setting + shoehorned multiplayer mode = yawn. Loved AC2, very little hype for this.

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

wat?

Its full price? :lol I thought it was a 30-40$ stand-alone expansion deal.

Only Rome for 60$? When AC2 gave us 50 hours of game?

whoa.....yeah I never really considered this would be a full price game, they better make it worthwhile

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

wat?

Its full price? :lol I thought it was a 30-40$ stand-alone expansion deal.

Only Rome for 60$? When AC2 gave us 50 hours of game?

I am just estimating that it will be a full game since this is Ubisoft. In regards to only Rome, realize that you can only squeeze so much juice out of one lemon. Rome was great for AC2. One of the greatest enjoyments of the AC series, especially AC2 was the environments. I don't know how much they can squeeze out of the same ones used in part 2 that would justify another full purchase. But thats just my opinion.

 

[RiccochetJ]

True. Still, not sure how much they can do with Rome, at least not enough to warrant a $60 purchase? Hopefully I will be wrong.

I couldn't imagine them being able to create a completely new city/environment in a year's time. It makes sense that they're staying in Italy. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it winds up being $60. If it has the same amount of content of AC2 plus multiplayer, it will be a first day buy for me. If it's a glorified mission pack, I'll wait for the bargain bins.

 

[Haunted]

Looking forward to Assassin's Creed III. This, not so much.

 

[adamsapple]

Son of a bitch, is this the month of awesome or what ? :lol

edit : seriously hope this isn't online ONLY and it has a fleshed out story rather than a glorified multiplayer module.

 

[Karram]

If its Co-op the same way as Splinter Cell Conviction, then I Don't care.

 

[John Rabbit]

sigh.

anytime i'm confronted with a game that has a solid single-player experience that includes a competently written story, excellent mechanics, and stays its welcome the exact amount of time it needs to, the first thing i think once i'm done is "oh my god how great would this be with 15 random strangers yelling racial epithets in my ear?!"

goddamnit.

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

I couldn't imagine them being able to create a completely new city/environment in a year's time. It makes sense that they're staying in Italy. However, I also wouldn't be surprised if it winds up being $60. If it has the same amount of content of AC2 plus multiplayer, it will be a first day buy for me. If it's a glorified mission pack, I'll wait for the bargain bins.

True, but werent they trying to get Rome into AC2??

Spoiler

I know they had the last part of the game in Rome but you barely saw any of the city

Maybe they had some of Rome already put together and it just never made it to AC2. All speculation of course, but Rome is a mighty big city, that would offer a lot of gameplay that would make the potential (and likely) $60 pricetag a bit easier to swallow.

 

[hellclerk]

Is that... Night Owl on the far left?

Watchmen aside, looks cool, but I'll have to pass if Ubisoft insists on keeping the same DRM bullshit.

 

[Costanza]

 

[Irish]

Why indeed. Megathread syndrome strikes again. Threads split.

Down with Megathreads!

Anyway, I hope the MP ends up being great.

 

[Rahxephon91]

I wonder if they will fix the god awful combat? No lets just throw more of it in ALA AC2!

 

[2 Minutes Turkish]

So is this technically an add-on? Separate game? New MP only game?

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

I'll wait and see on this. I never played the first, and I borrowed the second from a friend but haven't really been able to get too into it. The mechanics are pretty cool but it feels so repetitive (I'd hate to see how repetitive the first was, since that was the aspect they apparently fixed).

Ok, this is for anyone who shares this view: Tell me your prefered game and please explain how it manages to stay fresh and never gets repetitive. Seriously.

Is it an FPS where you shoot wave after wave of enemies? Is it an RPG where you grind against hordes of enemies to gain that new level or weapon? Is it a platformer that has you getting from point A to point B with varying levels of difficulty of the same jumping segments over and over? Is it that neat puzzle game that has you using the same gameplay over and over and over until you gain a high score? Maybe that fighting game that pits you up against foes round after round using your same 3 combos over and over? Oh wait, it's that hack'n'slash game where you mutilate beasties and then fight that boss at the end of every level?

It's a fucking videogame that was born to be repetitive. I'm not knocking those game types... just proving a point. AC2 is plenty varied and offers more gameplay options than most games this gen.

 

[KittyKittyBangBang]

I wonder if they will fix the god awful combat? No lets just throw more of it in ALA AC2!

I like AC2 combat!

AC is not a third person hack-n-slash, its an adventure game where you occansionally stick a knife in the back of dudes heads, so its not supposed to be combat heavy. I think its unique and simple enough that its effective for what its trying to pull off

 

[adamsapple]

I wonder if they will fix the god awful combat? No lets just throw more of it in ALA AC2!

The combat in AC2 was pretty good *

*granted you weren't one of those who just stood around waiting to only act via counters.

 

[GeoramA]

AC2 is an awesome, awesome game.

Not interested in this at all.

 

[ezekial45]

Is this strictly a multiplayer game?