Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 2072 Ratings

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  1. AlexeySoltan
    Jun 28, 2023
    2
    everything in this game is bad, all the old mechanics are even worse than in the 1st part (especially parkour), new mechanics are awfull or dont even work, stupid story, useless and dumb characters. i have played AC 1, 2, BH, revelations 3, 4, unity and this part of the series is the worst
  2. Viruzzz
    Jun 29, 2014
    2
    Assassin's Creed Brotherhood would be an OK game if it didn't have so many problems. The story is mediocre, it isn't very engaging and unlike most other sequel games, the game doesn't really do anything to catch you up on what happened in the last game, the game that this one follows directly. You get a few minutes of cutscene at the beginning and that is it, it leaves you with no ideaAssassin's Creed Brotherhood would be an OK game if it didn't have so many problems. The story is mediocre, it isn't very engaging and unlike most other sequel games, the game doesn't really do anything to catch you up on what happened in the last game, the game that this one follows directly. You get a few minutes of cutscene at the beginning and that is it, it leaves you with no idea what's happening in the real world or in the dream world.

    Luckily, the writing in the game is so mediocre you can see straight though the plot, There is no depth to it, everything I thought was going to happen has happened, there has been no surprises yet, the story is just bland, uninteresting and unengaging.

    Gameplay is bad, just... bad. Controls are an outright mess, they are entirely unintuitive and seem to switch function and overlap function on a whim, for instance, when you go up to something, the interact button seems to switch between "E" and "Shift" seemingly at random, and sometimes interact is "Press any button"
    The combat is imprecise, boring and at times unresponsive. Yet is still so mind-numbingly easy it is very hard to fail.

    I purchased this game after playing Black flag in order to maybe get some sort of context for the alternate storyline, but it makes as little sense in this one as it does in black flag, it is such a drag every time the game pulls you out of the game and forces you to play through a "real world" mission with Desmund, the characters are boring and the story is badly written and is extremely predictable.    … Expand
  3. dmz82
    Apr 7, 2011
    4
    Although ACB runs and looks much better on the PC than it did on console, the PC port brings a number of glitches and bugs with it that are notably absent from the console versions. Smooth and detailed textures, as well as longer draw distances don't seem to make up for the fact that there is a substantial amount of z-fighting on higher-end cards (that is where textures flicker as theyAlthough ACB runs and looks much better on the PC than it did on console, the PC port brings a number of glitches and bugs with it that are notably absent from the console versions. Smooth and detailed textures, as well as longer draw distances don't seem to make up for the fact that there is a substantial amount of z-fighting on higher-end cards (that is where textures flicker as they compete to occupy the same display plane). At times this is just a mild annoyance but at others it distracts from the scene immensley, and on a number of occasions I found myself having missed key dialog because I was so bothered by it. Furthermore, Ezio and NPCs seem to pass right through each other during animations. I've watched as Assassin Guild members leap easily through their opponents as if they were ghosts, landing far behind them as the vanquished enemy slowly falls to the ground. In short, it looks absolutely terrible and makes you wince when you see it -- and it happens almost every time. This is shoddy programming at best, pure indifference and apathy at worst. In sum, I'd recommend that those who own the console version stick to that. The PC version is too marred with bugs to be worth the money and I doubt Ubisoft will bother to fix any of this with a patch.… Expand
  4. Rondalh
    Sep 18, 2021
    0
    This game is perfect example how much worse AC series was before and how it slowly got better starting with AC 4, that was pretty much first very good AC game, everything before 4 is just meaningless and boring. Unity and Syndicate were also great and Valhalla is decent.
  5. Y4nk33
    Apr 10, 2013
    3
    What the hell ubisoft????
    I have the legit version of this game, and its going with 5 fps.(my system specs hit the recomended requierements).In the end I pirated it aaaand it worked like charm.YOU SHOULDNT encourage pirateing you dumb ubisoft a*****es!!!!!now I dont have the extras.About the gameplay lame, monoton, boring blah blah blah, nothing new from AC2, and story is pretty much    What the hell ubisoft????
    I have the legit version of this game, and its going with 5 fps.(my system specs hit the recomended requierements).In the end I pirated it aaaand it worked like charm.YOU SHOULDNT encourage pirateing you dumb ubisoft a*****es!!!!!now I dont have the extras.About the gameplay lame, monoton, boring blah blah blah, nothing new from AC2, and story is pretty much predictable.If the CD would have workes it probably have gotten 6-7 maybe 8 points, but because I wasted my money it gets a 3.In my opinion if you want to play it for the gameplay then pirate it, because that is what ubisoft whants you to do    … Expand
  6. Dryice
    Jun 9, 2011
    1
    ACB is very short, not complex story, boring world, boring mechanic of gameplay. I simply dont like it. I spent a lot of money (it costs same as AC2) and I was angry when I spent 2 days to finish the game. It is also too easy. I have seen a lot of bugs. I still thinks, that story is worst at this part of game. In a 3/4 of whole game I was telling myself "I should be sucked into gameplayACB is very short, not complex story, boring world, boring mechanic of gameplay. I simply dont like it. I spent a lot of money (it costs same as AC2) and I was angry when I spent 2 days to finish the game. It is also too easy. I have seen a lot of bugs. I still thinks, that story is worst at this part of game. In a 3/4 of whole game I was telling myself "I should be sucked into gameplay already, why the hell nothing is happening?". Too many good reviews at magazines, websites. Where is demanding of great gameplay from all people. Why u counting game very high if it so weak and short? I think that people have too many games to play these days, which means that not so long gameplay = more time for other titles = good for them. But not for me, not for person who still is in total love to AC2 game. I am very disapointed.… Expand
  7. plays2manygames
    Jun 18, 2011
    0
    exactly the same as the other assassin creed games , no different ways of being stealthy, pickpocketing is unrealistic and pointless storyline is the worst ife ever seen in a game b4 .... seriously pacman has a better storyline
  8. JakeLunn
    Nov 21, 2012
    2
    Why do people enjoy this game? I have played AC1 and AC2 and liked them both. I liked AC1 even though many people didn't. I hated this game though. When I use the word "hated", I mean it. The story in this game has "filler" written all over it, except for the ending of course. I didn't, for one second, take any interest in the story development of this one at all.

    The graphics and such    Why do people enjoy this game? I have played AC1 and AC2 and liked them both. I liked AC1 even though many people didn't. I hated this game though. When I use the word "hated", I mean it. The story in this game has "filler" written all over it, except for the ending of course. I didn't, for one second, take any interest in the story development of this one at all.

    The graphics and such were fine, although I personally think AC2 had a much better environment than this one did. Rome is basically a giant rundown ruined city with some farmland on the outskirts. I like the ability to dye my character's cloak, but no matter how I dye it he always sticks out. In AC1 his cloak was designed to mimic priest cloaks so he could get around in a crowd. Why is he still wearing bright white cloaks and crazy capes with a pointed hood? Is it really just to look cool? I stick out like a soar thumb when I'm walking around, how am I supposed to be stealthy?

    The gameplay is where the downfall is. I don't remember any of the issues I had with AC:B being present in AC2. The first problem I have is simply running around. You hold RT+A (yeah I used a controller because keyboard support is dreadful) to run, but that is also the button combo to run up the side of a ledge or leap off a building. So while you're running, if you happen to pass by a column or building, your character will run up the side of that building and kill your momentum. Then you have to jump off of the building back down to the street and resume running. This can be an extremely annoying process if you're being chased. Another issue with running is if you're unlucky enough to run into a group of guards, which you WILL be doing if you go after Borgia captains, your character enters a "combat mode" where he pulls out his weapon and dances around like the guy from Last of the Mahicans. This also stops your momentum, but in a more annoying way. See it takes a lot of button mashing and re-positioning just to get the game to go "Oh he wants to run instead of fight!". So that Borgia captain you were chasing? Yeah, he's gone.

    That leads me to another thing: Why can most Borgia captains run like 10 feet before the game decides they've "escaped"? He's right in front of me yet apparently he "got away"? That's extremely frustrating and cheap. I guess the developers decided that, in order to make some Borgia captains more difficult, they should put them directly next to their escape zone so that if you approach him he needs to only dash a yard or two before the god damn Star Trek Enterprise beams him up. Anyway, I'm going to play Revelations now and hope that this abomination fades from memory. If Revelations is any better then I just might move onto Assassin's Creed 3, but my god Brotherhood was just terrible.    … Expand
  9. zigazaga
    May 21, 2016
    3
    Just as I was getting to enjoy it, along comes yet another badly acted silly cut-scene. I was hoping that's only at the start of the game, but, no, keep getting interrupted with unskippable sequences and cut-scenes to the point where I can no longer be bothered playing this. It's no different from any other game of its type, hopefully I'll find something less irritating.
  10. Malcoth
    Jan 11, 2016
    4
    It's not quite as bad as the first AC game, but way worse than AC II or AC IV. Lot's of stupid special missions you need to solve exactly one way or they won't work. Lot's of missions impossible to solve the first time round because you have no time to look around and plan, you run and do. If you did right, you will barely make it in time. If you chose wrong on pure luck, desynch, tryIt's not quite as bad as the first AC game, but way worse than AC II or AC IV. Lot's of stupid special missions you need to solve exactly one way or they won't work. Lot's of missions impossible to solve the first time round because you have no time to look around and plan, you run and do. If you did right, you will barely make it in time. If you chose wrong on pure luck, desynch, try again, try another way. No thinking, no planning, just run and do trial and error.

    Regular and egregeously stupid camera lock to some effed up perspective you cannot see anything you'd like to see.

    The freerun "railing" usually get's more in the way than helping, which is emphasized by willy-nilly placed "railing"-structures like walls that break and stop any attempt at freerunning that was not explicitly build as a course.

    Regular occurances of interface failure, where among the three dozen context-selected actions on one button the only sensible and rather required one is not available and your char does something completely stupid instead. (Enemy? Wait, you could... knit, cook, puzzle, hug, read the newspaper, go to the toilet or pull faces. Attack? No. Assasinate? No. Run? What are you, a coward?)

    Open world? Yes, in theory. In practice, most interesting things are only available once you got all regions unlocked and are about done with the game. What you might want with any special equipment once you have no occasion to use it anymore is anyones guess.

    Achievements? Well, yes, but it's anyones guess what some of them are meant to be. "Kill guards while mounted." well... it does not count the amount of guards you kill while mounted yourself. And ist does not count guards killed while they are mounted, at least not assassinated ones. And a hit in combat usually dismounts guards instead of killingt them while mounted. Hmm... I have some that triggered, but not the foggiest idea which, how and why.

    Full synchro? Yes, please try. Some of the requirements are stupendously easy, many others are terribly frustratingly difficult. Combined with the above mentioned mission pacing as purely lucky choice parcours, no "redo from checkpoint" option and the frequent control glitches... eff that.    … Expand
  11. huffnat890
    Apr 27, 2011
    4
    I'm pretty sure this game came out a few years ago and I believe it was called Assassin's Creed II. I used to be a fanboy, but they're too repetitive. I don't really get why these games are so successful. Oh you have three ways of being stealthy! Hide in a bail of hay! Blend with a Crowd! Or Sit on a bench! Not fun. Also this one is even more repetitive. It's one of those lame revolutionI'm pretty sure this game came out a few years ago and I believe it was called Assassin's Creed II. I used to be a fanboy, but they're too repetitive. I don't really get why these games are so successful. Oh you have three ways of being stealthy! Hide in a bail of hay! Blend with a Crowd! Or Sit on a bench! Not fun. Also this one is even more repetitive. It's one of those lame revolution stories which has become code for do the same exact thing x amount of times. Sorry, but this game just sucked.… Expand
  12. paketep
    May 5, 2011
    0
    Multiplayer without LAN support, and a slightly less horrible version of a horrible and useless DRM system that only customers have to suffer through. Minuscule progress, but not enough, Ubi.
  13. luc1kjke
    Nov 4, 2012
    0
    This game is a total letdown. All series looks dumb with that complex(or dumb?) storyline that really looses itself in all that killing. One advice to developers: If you having simple gameplay then you should have SIMPLE storyline. Seriously - if you can't write complex and easy to follow storyline - don't even try!
  14. Rarfael
    Jun 4, 2011
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Long single with only few changes between one mission and other. Multiplayer with most servers empty.
    Also poor story and have to many jumping from part to part missions.... thats boring. But in other hand have a good graphic.    … Expand
  15. Budget_Security
    Mar 10, 2015
    4
    This is the first game to tie the presence of a SSD to the ability to gallop your horse, ha! (buffer speed). This game is too easy. Compared to the last game, some things are better, some worse, overall not much improvement. The main story is a bit shorter. As always, gameplay can degenerate to frustrating trial-and-error. At least the menu is better. As usual Uplay is a pain. These gamesThis is the first game to tie the presence of a SSD to the ability to gallop your horse, ha! (buffer speed). This game is too easy. Compared to the last game, some things are better, some worse, overall not much improvement. The main story is a bit shorter. As always, gameplay can degenerate to frustrating trial-and-error. At least the menu is better. As usual Uplay is a pain. These games could be great without consolitis.… Expand
  16. Hannibaal
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    Es un juego que no destaca en nada y que me resultó aburrido, los combates son pésimos y aburridos porque estos no tienen apenas profundidad ni variedad, son muy simples, en el resto del apartado jugable, lo mismo, está todo muy automatizado, no hay profundidad jugable. La historia y los personajes son olvidables, en el apartado técnico es en lo único que destacaba en su momento.
    4/10.    Es un juego que no destaca en nada y que me resultó aburrido, los combates son pésimos y aburridos porque estos no tienen apenas profundidad ni variedad, son muy simples, en el resto del apartado jugable, lo mismo, está todo muy automatizado, no hay profundidad jugable. La historia y los personajes son olvidables, en el apartado técnico es en lo único que destacaba en su momento.
    4/10.

    No entiendo la buena valoración de este juego, pero tampoco la entiendo de la saga Assassins en general, el primero de todos ya era mediocre, increíble que haya dado para tantas entregas.    … Expand
  17. Gleb4ik
    Feb 2, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ИГРА ХОРОШАЯ ВИДНО ЧТО СТРАЛИСЬ НО ПОКА ЧТО 2!!!!!!!!… Expand
  18. kndr
    May 12, 2021
    4
    Same problems that existed in ac1 and 2 still exist here. What I said for 1 and 2 still applies.

    But hey, you got combo system.
  19. KommanderWar
    Jun 8, 2022
    3
    Me desanimou bastante esse jogo, na música, no tanto de missões secundárias repetitivas, foi bem chato e masante, sem falar nos bugs, parece até que não foi a mesma empresa que fez o 2 que foi simplesmente maravilhoso.
  20. StarkAgentos
    May 17, 2022
    2
    Самый настоящий конвейер. Единственное, что поправлено по сравнению с первой частью - это открытый мир. Багов много. Можно проходить сквозь многие объекты. Не понимаю, что все в этой игре нашли.
  21. Asspull
    Apr 11, 2022
    2
    it sucks .I am now pin down by a primary mission //after kill a hostile hold A/S/D/W + ATTACK to combo kill another enemy . It require no damage .I can not suffer this battle system anymore . I prefer running away instead of blocking .and Ezio just put down the sword so I can not blocking ..well then I quit letting the enemies attacking him ..and Ezio can not dead neither . AM Iit sucks .I am now pin down by a primary mission //after kill a hostile hold A/S/D/W + ATTACK to combo kill another enemy . It require no damage .I can not suffer this battle system anymore . I prefer running away instead of blocking .and Ezio just put down the sword so I can not blocking ..well then I quit letting the enemies attacking him ..and Ezio can not dead neither . AM I respected ? this design means either I can make genius perfect walkthrough or train myself like a child with cheat HP… Expand
  22. scatyagiz
    Jul 2, 2023
    3
    This game is so annoying when the situations complicated the antogonist never do what you want him to do. Parkour is like that also, the character never do what you want him to do. Also parkour never flows, worse than AC Valhalla. Eivor do what you want him to do at least, or you are not getting any trouble to go to a point B from point B.
    Checkpoint system is so useless if you wanna have    This game is so annoying when the situations complicated the antogonist never do what you want him to do. Parkour is like that also, the character never do what you want him to do. Also parkour never flows, worse than AC Valhalla. Eivor do what you want him to do at least, or you are not getting any trouble to go to a point B from point B.
    Checkpoint system is so useless if you wanna have %100 synch you need to do the misson from the very start if you failed an objective.    … Expand

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#10 Best PC Game of 2011
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#24 Most Discussed PC Game of 2011
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#45 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    May 22, 2011
    80
    Polished conversion of the console version cannot be labeled as an add-on. This is an excellent full-featured game with interesting multiplayer mode. Period. [Issue#203]
  2. PALGN
    Apr 27, 2011
    80
    Built on the shoulders of Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood is the most polished and robust execution of the Assassin's Creed formula yet.
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  3. Game Chronicles
    Apr 19, 2011
    92
    Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood isn't as much a sequel as a completion to the second game, and while this is certainly the best game of the three so far, you probably don't want to jump into the story without having played at least the second game first.
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