Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

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  1. morfil
    Jan 2, 2014
    7
    Now take nothing away from it, the gameplay is marvelous. Fighting has never gotten easier than in this game. The story is decent and in this one I did want to kill Cezare Borgia (mainly for the same reason why Star Wars fan boys want to kill Jar Jar Binks). However like all Assassin's Creed games the ending really sinks what could have been a great game.
  2. Jaragon
    Dec 2, 2013
    7
    A good game i enjoyed playing it a lot I think its to bad that almost nobody is playing the multiplayer anymore (they've probably moved on to the more recent ac games) because the lack of players in mp really was the reason I stopped playing it.
  3. Saurabh_review
    Dec 15, 2013
    7
    Ubisoft has definetely made it work with this game. It is worth buying game. Good graphics overall and nice moves to learn. The storyline seem to be a bit boring since transformation of Present to Past is frequent.
    Overall 8/10
    Graphics 8/10
    Storyline 6/10
  4. amuadr
    Jun 16, 2014
    7
    By far the worst game in the series and if you'd like to know why, then read on. Although it is not terrible, but the obvious just push it out the door, print it, print it now!, comes clearer with Brotherhood more than any of the other games. I might as well start with the problems that the game has. Well the main problem with the game is the auto lock-on camera which is down rightBy far the worst game in the series and if you'd like to know why, then read on. Although it is not terrible, but the obvious just push it out the door, print it, print it now!, comes clearer with Brotherhood more than any of the other games. I might as well start with the problems that the game has. Well the main problem with the game is the auto lock-on camera which is down right frustrating, like during huge missions your running to flee from an area or whatever and it locks you on to someone who tried to attack you, even though they missed and it makes you go out of track. OMG and the next one. One of the enemies, and im not even joking, is at times invinsible. you know the light armor guys. they can litteraly jump backwards any time you attack them, even if they're by a wall the sword just goes through them or they dodge it and if you try to kick them that doesen't work eighter, this becomes especially true when during big timed missions where you have to kill a bunch of guys in a time-limit. OMG and this next one is actually "GAME BREAKING" During a mission where you tail a missionary to the coloseum, "spoilers". you have to kill 2 exact guys that look identical to the other. and then the real problem addears, because you have to kill 2 more random guys again and the real problem here is that they have a pretty high chance of fleeing like a little chicken and because "Spoilers" you now have the apple of eden which kills whatever it wants, but only one guy at a time, randomly, but see why is it a problem that they flee you ask? Well because there is a barrier you can't go through, its like a invisible fench that prevents you from going futher and the problem is that they can actually surpass that "Fence" by a few feet or like 4-5 meters meaning that if you let them surpass that barrier then your basicly **** and see it's actually really hard to not make them surpass the "barrier" you might as well restart the memory, which means that you have to tail the guy and everything all over again. Now the Next problem is more of a annoyance than annything else, but it's still a thing that draws you out of the immersion. the voice acting is often eccoed in really low volume or it's not there at all, and the voices are there sometimes but it's really only in big scenes. the controls are also nothing to brag about, they are definitely designed with a controller in mind and also the way Ezio moves feel kinda sluggish like he has bad agility which for an assassin is extremely weird .i think i got everything that is negative about the game, now on to the good stuff. first of all the game has an exellent soundtrack, at times it's a little too much but usually good, not much to say on that one. and secound the climbing and the overall feel of being an assasin is really good. the world design as there is no quote on quote level design is actually really good, in fact it's amazing. the story is also very interesting, which i guess only apply to people who is generally interested in history as myself. the game has got amazing multiplayer and aftergamecontent meaning that you can be stacked for a few weeks after playing through the story. overall i'd say that this is definitely the worst Assassin's Creed game in the series. a 7/10 should do it justice. i might even be a tad bit too kind to it though. it's worth purchasing though on a market if it's on like 50% off +.… Expand
  5. VidyaBum
    Dec 15, 2020
    7
    I paid for this game through Steam. When I tried to start it the first time, Steam downloaded UPlay, which demanded me to provide my email to Ubisoft before it let me launch the game I paid for.

    So I torrented a crack for a game that I paid for, because I don't pay to get in Ubisoft's spamlist. Just putting that out there. Thank you, guys that row on skids. In any case, AC2    I paid for this game through Steam. When I tried to start it the first time, Steam downloaded UPlay, which demanded me to provide my email to Ubisoft before it let me launch the game I paid for.

    So I torrented a crack for a game that I paid for, because I don't pay to get in Ubisoft's spamlist. Just putting that out there. Thank you, guys that row on skids.

    In any case, AC2 Brotherhood is quite literally AC2: the Cut part.

    The game starts less than 3 mins after the ending of AC2. The plot barely changes an inch, and everything is the same.

    Brotherhood could just be an uninventive extension to a game that was really good but sadly outstayed its welcome. However, it's actually a worse game than AC2 in my taste, simply because AC is not about the gameplay, or the plot: it's about the interactive postcard, about being part of History and enjoying the feeling of traversing a proper medieval city or great time of the past.

    And the thing is, AC2 relied on Venice and Florence. Brotherhood is about Rome.

    Rome is, as Tywin Lannister would put it, a blasted ruin. The city is plainly UGLY. Kudos for the effort of making a really credible half destroyed wreck of a city, but bluntly put, I didn't like anything about Rome. The whole game is in Rome.

    The gameplay? Same problems, the crossbow makes things even easier, the run/jump controls still are unpleasant. The fights are the same. Some infuriating moments when some guards in heavy armor somehow manage to catch up to me and beat me when I'm forced to run away.

    The Apple of Eden segments are all terrible.

    On a good note though, I really loved the mechanic of the Towers and the captain you have to kill. Infiltration, planning, failing, running, killing guards, it was all very fun. Slightly abhorrent when sometimes the captain you must target can run into an untouchable place in 8s, but overall very fun.

    Still, if you play Brotherhood, it's more AC2, with a far uglier city, a plot that is less personal and involving as in AC2, less developed, with more money and property minigames, more of the same ideas, more of the same gameplay, more of the same.    … Expand
  6. Marickk
    Jan 25, 2016
    7
    After several hours of gameplay the game looks like nothing compared to the other two titles. So far is the worst, yet I did not get to play Revelations, III and IV. (PC does not lead more to continue the series). The end left me a little surprised because it is very strange. However there is a very poor way but worth playing.
  7. S0pun
    Oct 20, 2019
    7
    После великой второй части эти две, даже вместе взятые, не дают и половины сюжетного контента своей предшественницы. Не заснуть помогает лишь разнообразие второстепенных квестов, но ненадолго.
  8. Don_Perepihon
    Jun 16, 2018
    7
    Пару лет назад появилось желание пройти заново все части Assassin's Creed. Настало время для Brotherhood, в который я раннее не играла. AC2 является для меня одной из самых памятных и любимых частей серии, и было приятно обнаружить, что ACB является геймплейно улучшенной ее версией.

    Что понравилось из нового: + Набор в гильдию рекрутов. Очень удобно, когда на тебя устроили облаву, за    Пару лет назад появилось желание пройти заново все части Assassin's Creed. Настало время для Brotherhood, в который я раннее не играла. AC2 является для меня одной из самых памятных и любимых частей серии, и было приятно обнаружить, что ACB является геймплейно улучшенной ее версией.

    Что понравилось из нового:
    + Набор в гильдию рекрутов. Очень удобно, когда на тебя устроили облаву, за тобой бежит пол Рима, ты вызываешь братков и они быстро помогают тебе в битве. Также они не раз помогали в стелс-миссиях или в миссиях, где нужно было убивать на скорость. Такого нововведения действительно не хватало. Не скажу, что это делает игру легче, скорее становится меньше рутины. Где-то на форуме читала, что новобранцев тяжело прокачать до ассасинов, с чем не могу согласиться, все мои ребята быстро достигли 10 лвла, особенно те, кто ходили на сложные задания с прокаченными. К концу ты даже привязываешься к ним и помнишь каждого по имени.
    + Расширился ассортимент оружия. Арбалет - лучшая вещь на земле.
    + Быстрые переходы и езда на конях по городу.

    Минусы заключаются в сюжете и подаче.
    - Действия, не считая пролога с эпилогом, не выходят за пределы Рима и, по сути, всю игру мы бегаем только за Чезаре (а во время финальной битвы, где чтобы победить, нужно было раздевать его, пробило на смех, серьезно). Дезмонд, как всегда, унылая скотина, и не было вообще никакого желания выходить из анимуса и слушать по одной-две несмешные шутки от его товарищей. В игре не было ни одного интересного персонажа, ни врага, ни союзника.
    - Сейчас будет немного вкусовщины, но лично меня никак не вставило бегать на перегонки с бомжами и ломать поделки Леонардо. Пулемет был еще ничего, но вот после бомбардировщика я сказала этим миссиям "до свидания", нервы и время дороже. Спасибо хотя бы то, что это побочные квесты и можно их с чистой совестью пропустить.
    - Также я не вижу особого смысла в покупке всяких лавок, достопримечательностей, выполнении заданий торговцев, т.к. денег на оружие и костюмы хватает с миссий и рекрутов, а получать деньги за то, что ты их тратишь, кажется здесь бессмысленным.
    - Если так подумать, то пропуская все побочки, не собирая сокровища, забивая на костюм Ромула, забыв про архивы, то игра проходиться катастрофически быстро. Наверное, за парочку часов. Сложно понять, а когда конец игры, ведь каждая миссия проходит в одном городе. В AC2 локации менялись, из-за чего ты хотя бы понимал, что скоро покинешь то или иное место. А здесь лично я не ожидала, что миссия во дворце будет конечной и не успела пробежать все в городе, что хотела.

    Вердикт такой: играть приятно и удобно, игра проходится относительно быстро есть не выполнять все на 100%, сюжета нет. Лучше ли эта часть игры AC2? Наверное, нет. Это, я бы сказала, не отельная часть, а аддон.    … Expand
  9. Kotofon
    Jan 10, 2022
    7
    Живите и дышите, как Эцио, легендарный Ассасин-мастер, сражающийся против Тамплиеров. Он должен попасть в самый большой город Италии, Рим, центр власти, алчности и коррупции, где он ударит прямо в сердце врага.

    Чтобы победить коррумпированных тиранов, обосновавшихся там, нужны не только силы, но и лидерские качества, какие есть у Эцио, идущего на битву вместе с Братством Ассасинов.    Живите и дышите, как Эцио, легендарный Ассасин-мастер, сражающийся против Тамплиеров. Он должен попасть в самый большой город Италии, Рим, центр власти, алчности и коррупции, где он ударит прямо в сердце врага.

    Чтобы победить коррумпированных тиранов, обосновавшихся там, нужны не только силы, но и лидерские качества, какие есть у Эцио, идущего на битву вместе с Братством Ассасинов. Только сражаясь бок о бок Ассасины победят своих заклятых врагов.    … Expand
  10. JaydenPickens
    May 22, 2019
    7
    Enjoyed this one. I don't want to repeat myself, so everything I said in the Assassin's Creed 2 review translates here as well. Pickens approves!
  11. Cz3rw0ny
    Feb 9, 2021
    7
    As a stand-alone game, not great. As a "DLC" to AC2 it was quite alright for a single playthrough.
  12. Reverse_U
    Oct 9, 2019
    7
    Very good game. Combat is not bad, story and storytelling are remarkable, both parkour and map exploring feel good. Solid 7/10.
  13. Relkad
    Mar 25, 2020
    7
    Although i love this game story becomes non-sense as you progress.
    Still good if you look as a part of the whole series (1-4)
  14. ProfAmateur
    May 2, 2021
    7
    German below.

    Compared to Assassin's Creed 2: + FPS Lock has been removed + Controls on PC port with Xbox controller are better + Upgrade in contrast, shadow and light + Possibility to use assissins as NPCs +/- Very varied, but after a while there are to many side missions (overload). - Pursuit missions get annoying after a while - Savepoints are badly done in some missions, so    German below.

    Compared to Assassin's Creed 2:
    + FPS Lock has been removed
    + Controls on PC port with Xbox controller are better
    + Upgrade in contrast, shadow and light
    + Possibility to use assissins as NPCs
    +/- Very varied, but after a while there are to many side missions (overload).
    - Pursuit missions get annoying after a while
    - Savepoints are badly done in some missions, so you have to start from too far back again
    - Some crashes because of Ubisoft Connect
    - A few graphics bugs

    Im Vergleich zu Assassin's Creed 2:
    + FPS Lock wurde aufgehoben
    + Controls beim PC-Port mit Xbox-Controller sind besser
    + Upgrade bei Kontrast, Schatten und Licht
    + Möglichkeit weitere Assissinen als NPC einzusetzen
    +/- Sehr abwechslungsreich, aber mit der Zeit kommt man gar nicht mehr allen Nebenmissionen nach (Overload)
    - Verfolgungsmissionen nerven mit der Zeit
    - Savepoints sind in einigen Missionen schlecht gemacht, sodass man von zu weit hinten wieder anfangen muss
    - Paar Abstürze wegen Ubisoft Connect
    - Ein paar wenige Grafikbugs    … Expand
  15. gwynbleidd27
    Jun 26, 2021
    7
    Buggy mess but still enjoyable. Some missions are so great but most are so boring. Tailing missions make me wanna die.
  16. justashk
    Nov 2, 2022
    7
    I don.t know why every one say the story is fantastic it is normal
    side mission and a normal story
    hidden mission is so bullshet you still can.t use hiddeblade in it easlly
    i think it must be the best thing but its so bad
  17. Zallen
    Sep 9, 2022
    7
    Продолжение истории Эцио, которая на голову слабее предшественника, как сюжетно, так и геймплейно, хотя и есть нововведения - они ощущаются посредственно.
    7мь братков из 10ти.
  18. Quazder
    Jun 27, 2023
    7
    (-) bad graphics -> buggy, missing textures...
    (-) Gameplay is repetitive - Missions.
    (-) You feel unkillable in this game.
    (-) Some missions (most) are extremely boring

    (+-) Story isnt bad neither good

    (+) The overall feeling of this game is kinda nice, I dont know why
  19. TitaniumDragon
    Mar 11, 2013
    6
    Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an improvement in many ways on the second game there is a lot more free-running, the levels are better suited for Ezio's skills, there are a lot more interesting environments to play in...

    And yet. And yet there's something missing. This game suffers from a few issues. While they don't break the experience, they do lessen it. 1) The characters    Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an improvement in many ways on the second game there is a lot more free-running, the levels are better suited for Ezio's skills, there are a lot more interesting environments to play in...

    And yet. And yet there's something missing.

    This game suffers from a few issues. While they don't break the experience, they do lessen it.

    1) The characters suck. You feel very little to no connection to the characters in the game. You just don't really care about them. Yes, they were in ACII, but there's just... nothing really there that grips you.

    2) The main story campaign is quite short. Like, shockingly so. The sidequests are good and add to the length of the game...

    3) But the collectables still suck. There are ten feathers, 101 borgia flags, a gross number of treasure chests.. and quite frankly its all pointless. Well, the treasure chests aren't completely useless, though many of them are, but the rest of them are there for the sake of being there, and just don't add anything to the game. Running around collecting them is dull, and while platforming is fun, the problem is that most of them are not actually difficult to get to in the first place they're just difficult to find without the treasure maps. And some of them are all about running for a minute in a direction, then running in a minute in the OTHER direction, which just sucks.

    4) The whole "city management" and "assassin management" thing is pointless. Not only do you end up with gargantuan piles of money, but running around restoring the stores is a time waster, as is sending your assassin recruits on missions. They're very empty experiences.

    5) Combat. The combat in this game is just terrible. There's very little variety in enemies, but it doesn't matter because you can kill almost all enemies by calling in your assassin recruits the only time you CAN'T is when you arbitrarily are denied them. Worse still, you are ridiculously powerful your ranged attacks one shot them, your surprise attacks one shot them, your smoke bombs let you murder crowds out of hand... the combat in this game is really trivial and mostly a waste of time, because it isn't actually fun. Assassinating people is the funnest part, and most of that is about stealth, which is fun, and the stealth kills, which can be alright but often become stupid because you can just use a crossbow or throwing knife or poison to off them from a distance.

    6) The ending is bad. After about halfway through act 8, the game becomes pretty much entirely about combat. For three levels, you gain a totally overpowered item which just says "Press X to win" and essentially cannot die (but likewise cannot use anything BUT said item), and then the final level is all combat without the fun of assassination or stealth. As combat is the worst part of the game, understandably this leaves a sour taste in the player's mouth.

    7) The game tries too hard to be enigmatic. I understand that they're trying to seem mysterious, but they mostly succeed in just making everything feel like a let down.

    8) The story in renaissance Italy is just boring. I don't care about the characters and it feels like a disconnected strung-together chain of events.

    9) Sometimes, the platforming feels a little too choreographed, which becomes especially obvious at certain points in the game, where it feels like I'm just being lead by the nose by level design without any real interesting input on my part.

    All in all, the game is decent, but not amazing.    … Expand
  20. Slater
    Jul 7, 2011
    6
    AC:B is almost a great game. Graphics are great, soundwork and voiceovers are as good as always for the series, the fighting has been improved and you can really use heavy weapons now, etc. I would love it except for one thing that ruins everything: the controls. Granted, this problem has been there in all AC-games, but with all the new moves and abilities in Brotherhood, as well as theAC:B is almost a great game. Graphics are great, soundwork and voiceovers are as good as always for the series, the fighting has been improved and you can really use heavy weapons now, etc. I would love it except for one thing that ruins everything: the controls. Granted, this problem has been there in all AC-games, but with all the new moves and abilities in Brotherhood, as well as the stricter requirements on most missions, it is many times more glaring than it was before. Most of the time Ezio does the exact oppsite of what you feel you are telling him to, and with the mouse and keyboard, which I prefer, there is a huge problem with the camera being locked when you are jumping, preventing you from getting the direction right for the next jump, as well as idiotic button configuration. Who decided to make the buttons for grabbing and letting go of walls the same? And who thought it was a good idea to press E to activate tunnels for purchase, but Shift to activate them for use?

    I'm not exaggerating if I tell you that 9 out of 10 times I get hit or fail a mission, it's because of some bug or control issue. Let me give you an example:

    I'm playing a mission where I have to kill a group of guards without being noticed. I decide to climb onto a pillar and drop down on them, killing them with the dual hidden blade. For some reason Ezio decides to only hit one of them, because of a tiny fault in my aiming, which is impossible to see, and the other guy immediately sees me. Mission failed, start over.
    This time I try to shoot a lone guard. For some reason the camera suddenly changes to view behind Ezio, the shot fires in the wrong direction even though the guard was highlighted, and the noise alerts him. Mission failed, start over.
    This time I try to walk up behind two guards and stab them. Again Ezio decides to kill only one, despite being exactly in the middle of them, and again I am spotted. Mission failed, start over.
    This time I try to shoot a guard with the crossbow, then duck behind a wall for cover. The other guards only start turning around once I'm safely behind the wall, yet they see me straight through it anyway. Mission failed, start over.

    And this happens over and over and over again in every single mission. This game COULD have been great. Instead it's an exercise in angry hair removal.    … Expand
  21. guipit
    Jun 11, 2011
    6
    I really liked AC1 and I liked the rest too but there's really 2 big problems with the series 1. is the gameplay sure it made you feel like a total badass killing 50 guys is absolutely no problem but where is the challenge if you tried to kill 50 or 15 people IRL it's more difficult certainly more difficult than AC:B. I don't know about you kids but I want to think while I play I don'tI really liked AC1 and I liked the rest too but there's really 2 big problems with the series 1. is the gameplay sure it made you feel like a total badass killing 50 guys is absolutely no problem but where is the challenge if you tried to kill 50 or 15 people IRL it's more difficult certainly more difficult than AC:B. I don't know about you kids but I want to think while I play I don't just want instant gratification when I press a button and this is what this game promotes. The level design could also use some work you should think about your method of approach so there should be minimal scaffolding and all that or at least they should be disguised. 2. The story was interesting in AC1 now the series has made it generic by putting a saving the world plot with a bit of wtfery added in. All in all AC series is a casual game for casual gamers and well I'd recommend it for anyone who doesn't want to use their cerebellum when they're playing their video games but I'd rather not encourage that so I'm giving this a low rating.… Expand
  22. Illuminous
    Aug 29, 2011
    6
    This has been my first game of the Assassin's Creed series that I bought, and have both come to enjoy and hate some of the aspects of it. First of all, I'd just like to say that I bought the game for the multiplayer aspect, didn't get any further than 40 minutes into the singleplayer and havn't continued from there yet. The multiplayer was alot of fun at the beginning, but it quicklyThis has been my first game of the Assassin's Creed series that I bought, and have both come to enjoy and hate some of the aspects of it. First of all, I'd just like to say that I bought the game for the multiplayer aspect, didn't get any further than 40 minutes into the singleplayer and havn't continued from there yet. The multiplayer was alot of fun at the beginning, but it quickly became obvious that most people run around on the roofs, making it almost impossible for yourself to take them out unless you venture up there yourself. But any half decent player will see you miles away and understand why you're there and keep a distance. There is a gun that you can use against them aswell, but it doesn't net you alot of points. So if you, just like me, would enjoy hiding in crowds and stalking you're victim, you can forget it. Another thing which really bugged me was the poison ability, a game with Assassin's must of course have poison in it, but the points which you gain for simply walking past someone and sticking them is ridicolus sometimes. Using abilities also sometimes didn't seem to have an effect, as throwing a smokebomb down on the ground when you know someone close to you is about to shiv you, but then just to get a cutscene to see that person jump through it, land on you in the middle of the smoke and then kill you. But, in the end, I had a good enough time with this game's multiplayer mode for the money I spent to buy it.… Expand
  23. thyeggman
    Nov 6, 2011
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was quite pleased with AC:B despite the fact that it was in fact very similar to AC2... until I got to a certain point in the story line where I was sent on a mission where I was only allowed to use the apple of eden. There was only one thing to do: click repeatedly. It was really slow, so I called in some assassins, but as more guys came, several of them died. I was helpless because I couldn't switch weapons and the gameplay was simply terrible during those sections. Recently I found huge errors where the screen would go to this ugly shade of brown and I was blind. If I was fighting at the time, it didn't turn out so well. You could move around and *maybe* your vision would go back to normal, but it was pretty much a crap shoot. This happened consistently in several sections of the map. Also, the ending made me angry. I'm sure that there will be explanations in Revelations, but as it is, I'm left with a main character who is dead and now Desmond is a murderer. Now don't take this review completely the wrong way, AC:B offers a unique gaming experience unrivaled by many other similar games. The issues that I've mentioned and the fact that it is so similar to AC2 are what made me give it a 6.… Expand
  24. DarKMaTTeR
    Aug 2, 2014
    6
    I played this game late, after having read all the positive reaction. This confuses me, since I found it to be worse than all of its predecessors. The introduction of assisting assassin recruits is a very positive change, but, in every other aspect, AC:B is slipping away.

    Fighting, more than ever, is now all about button mashing. The original title had some interesting combo dynamics,    I played this game late, after having read all the positive reaction. This confuses me, since I found it to be worse than all of its predecessors. The introduction of assisting assassin recruits is a very positive change, but, in every other aspect, AC:B is slipping away.

    Fighting, more than ever, is now all about button mashing. The original title had some interesting combo dynamics, which I didn't even get to check whether they were still there. There was no place for them. Luckily, you can call for help and end the battles quicker.

    The controls in AC games have always had a bad rep. For some reason, in AC:B their suckiness is more in your face than ever before. Probably because AC:B is so poor in things to help you feel better about it. Few things can bring you faster to rage than Ezio spontaneously changing direction and jumping sideways towards a wall, causing you to fail your time-sensitive goal.

    The writing is the thinnest it has every been. Master-blahblah is building up, kill his characterless helpers, then kill him. Seriously, was there a single character in this game, besides Ezio himself? And don't get me started about how they've jumped the shark with the alien AI whatever-it-is thing.

    And the title's trademark, freerunning, became less free and more of a mechanic to solve puzzles, Tomb Raider style. Running on rooftops makes no practical sense anymore. Speaking of which, I always liked the environment's realistic and lived feel. Well, not anymore. Unless someone can explain why medieval architects would place uniform door switches high on walls and odd beams to help people with superhuman climbing skills get there.

    Tying the whole degression together is the city of Rome, the worst depiction of a city in any AC game. Rome is repetitive, hard to navigate (especially from the rooftops) and visually depressing.

    AC has a lot to capital to burn before becoming a bad game. But it didn't make to good this time either.    … Expand
  25. RealMuthaF
    Nov 3, 2012
    6
    This is what happens when the publisher (or developers, I'm not sure) gets greedy. Brotherhood is an oversized standalone add-on, but not in any way a direct sequel. It offers NOTHING new in terms of the plot development (except for Desmond's storyline, which fits in like half an hour) and retains the protagonist from the sequel, Ezio. I must say that I personally don't find Ezio such aThis is what happens when the publisher (or developers, I'm not sure) gets greedy. Brotherhood is an oversized standalone add-on, but not in any way a direct sequel. It offers NOTHING new in terms of the plot development (except for Desmond's storyline, which fits in like half an hour) and retains the protagonist from the sequel, Ezio. I must say that I personally don't find Ezio such a spectacular character as many seem to do - he is a generic good guy who lost his family and wants his revenge, and here he evolves into a generic old wise master giving advice. The gameplay features some additions, like taking back city districts (dull and repetitive), recruiting assassins (simplifies killing enemies even further, but looks nice, I admit) and a slight change in the combat system - now it's stupefied to a never-before-seen level: to kill the first enemy you must button mash or counter-kill him as usual, but to kill the next one you just need... to press one button. That's it, the "press x to win" stereotype going live. In terms of graphics, it's definitely an improvement, as the game's got the smooth looks matching or besting AC1's. My score would've been lower if not for the addition of the multiplayer mode. It's fresh, fun and will surely keep you entertained for a few weeks at least. Overall, this is a totally unnecessary addition to the franchise, a worrying move towards the COD's "a game a year" system, the Assassin's Greed.… Expand
  26. YazzleDazzle
    Dec 9, 2012
    6
    This installment of the Assassin's Creed series is a fun game but trips fatally over a few key issues. If you're willing to overlook some plot issues and can turn a blind eye to the game mis-interpreting what you want to do on a regular basis, this game is right up your alley. However, these trips have landed this game a low score.

    The city is well designed and getting around is fun.    This installment of the Assassin's Creed series is a fun game but trips fatally over a few key issues. If you're willing to overlook some plot issues and can turn a blind eye to the game mis-interpreting what you want to do on a regular basis, this game is right up your alley. However, these trips have landed this game a low score.

    The city is well designed and getting around is fun. Jumping from rooftops to rooftops and climbing around has always been a fun feature of the Assassin's Creed series. This game doesn't drop the ball in this departement. However, occasionally, you will find yourself frustrated that you can't reach something or grab something that you really should. Or in an attempt to jump up to a ledge that you can't grab on to, you'll frequently find yourself plummeting straight for the hard floor below. That being said, it doesn't happen often enough to really make this a huge issue.

    The combat is fun, however I found myself only ever using a couple of your huge arsenal of weapons. Once you get the crossbow, the game looses a lot of its challenge as well. The city development part of the game is neat and a good way to encourage the player to explore the city and liberate it.

    Managing your recruits was a key addition to Brotherhood and while innovative and neat, it did make the game a little easy. It seems like if you want a challenge in this game, you have to shoot yourself in the foot right out of the door to give the enemies that advantage they need. The game was fun. I enjoyed almost ever hour i spent running around the ancient city. However, i didn't enjoy one second running around in the present. While the concept of genetic memory is interesting, the game makes almost no effort to make you care at all about the real actual characters. Then when the huge thing happens at the end (which should have blown everyone's mind), i found myself wondering why I should care. Plus, this 'event' didn't make me feel like anything had been resolved. The ending had a nice build up, the pacing was near flawless then it just ends. Brotherhood left me with no satisfaction what so ever after finishing the game. This is the primary reason i give the game as low a rating as i did. The ending of any game is a crucial component. It is the last impression, the thing that determines whether you want to play it again or whether you want to throw it in the garbage and light it on fire for leading you along such a wonderful journey then abandoning you with no closure. Overall, fun game, bad ending. A great game if you're not the kind of person who gets hung up story stuff (like i clearly am).    … Expand
  27. crimsondoor
    Jul 14, 2016
    6
    The combat system is more polished than AC2, but everything else is worse. Rome doesn't have the charm of Florence and Venice. All the interesting characters either died or disappeared. Story is boring. They should have ended the Ezio story in this game, but seeing that Ubisoft is the developer this is not impossible, of course.
  28. maturene
    Dec 22, 2018
    6
    Luego escribo una review desas que ahora mismo me da pereza y tal. me cagoento
  29. 4ya5h1
    Feb 12, 2022
    6
    plot is extreamly weak like not bad its just weak, also its short and game doesnt fell long enough. gameplay and graphic is good, Rome looks good and master ezio looks cool
  30. Geralt123
    Aug 7, 2023
    6
    Good game, but AC II was way better in my opinion. The atmosphere is not the same and AC II story was better.

    Yes, gameplay is better in Brotherhood. But if the whole story s*cks, I don't care about gameplay.

    I would say 6/10.
  31. Djamon
    Feb 24, 2020
    6
    Подтянули графен , заскриптовали все уровни до дебилизма и всё. Короткая , с неудовлетворяющей концовкой , наполненная бесполезными активностями и с убогой постановкой сцен , игра. 6 баллов , за дизайн Рима , костюмов и того что я потратил не так много времени как ожидал(Потому что пропускал все бесполезные активности)Подтянули графен , заскриптовали все уровни до дебилизма и всё. Короткая , с неудовлетворяющей концовкой , наполненная бесполезными активностями и с убогой постановкой сцен , игра. 6 баллов , за дизайн Рима , костюмов и того что я потратил не так много времени как ожидал(Потому что пропускал все бесполезные активности)
  32. hileger
    Jan 15, 2023
    6
    в игре кроме паркура не работает ничего .......................................
  33. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    6
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  34. shynorah
    Dec 4, 2022
    6
    But I don't understand how people can rate this game so high.
    It is the most overrated game of the saga.
    The game has killer BUGS for an Assassin's Creed like parkour bugs, or enemies that appear 3m away from you during infiltration... Apart from that the graphics are ugly, the city of Rome uninspired. The main scenario is only a giant tutorial where you are presented with the    But I don't understand how people can rate this game so high.
    It is the most overrated game of the saga.

    The game has killer BUGS for an Assassin's Creed like parkour bugs,
    or enemies that appear 3m away from you during infiltration...

    Apart from that the graphics are ugly, the city of Rome uninspired.

    The main scenario is only a giant tutorial where you are presented with the different factions (devoid of interest),
    and ends against a villain who was completely undeveloped in the game.

    In short I could clash this game for hours, my 12 is generous.
    I will never understand how fans of the AC or series of video game fans appreciate
    as much Brotherhood which is mediocre.    … Expand
  35. Hyperfailure
    Apr 29, 2023
    6
    The point of turning away from the original AC formula. This is where the games felt less about Assassins and more sandbox-ish
  36. Dax
    Mar 23, 2011
    5
    The AC series are great. This one is the worst in the series yet. The story isn't as compelling as I hoped it would be. In comparison: It took me 5 days to complete AC2 and 2 days to complete AC Brotherhood.
    The story needs to improve because it just did not get me. Nevertheless great gameplay, but nothing new.
  37. gonorrheahd
    Jan 13, 2012
    5
    I bought this game out of a random trade deal that I thought would be worth it, like a 2$ game for a 40$ game, that sounds good doesn't it, so I put the game in and you know what, I liked it this game was fun. After a few days of campaign I finally beat it and didn't want to do the extra missions cause they were kinda boring, so what now? Well with nothing to do I tried multiplayer,I bought this game out of a random trade deal that I thought would be worth it, like a 2$ game for a 40$ game, that sounds good doesn't it, so I put the game in and you know what, I liked it this game was fun. After a few days of campaign I finally beat it and didn't want to do the extra missions cause they were kinda boring, so what now? Well with nothing to do I tried multiplayer, multiplayer is just awful, its not fun at all the first 50 minutes I didn't even know what the hell I was doing and even now I really don't know, so I guess overall this game is a quick, repetative, and boring game after the first playthrough and multiplay just sucks so I wouldn't even recommend getting the next one in the series.… Expand
  38. Catesfan
    Nov 23, 2012
    5
    I played every AC game up till now, I experienced the franchise before saying something ugly. The way I see it Brotherhood is supposed to have 5 strong parts of the game: 1. Fighting system 2. Acrobatics 3. Story 4. Sims-part 5.Stealth. Well in my opinion they are all broken and disconnected in this game. Fighting is stupid. Where in a decent game you have to carefully think what attackI played every AC game up till now, I experienced the franchise before saying something ugly. The way I see it Brotherhood is supposed to have 5 strong parts of the game: 1. Fighting system 2. Acrobatics 3. Story 4. Sims-part 5.Stealth. Well in my opinion they are all broken and disconnected in this game. Fighting is stupid. Where in a decent game you have to carefully think what attack type to apply to every enemy and in what order, here it is enough that you stand in block and counter-kill any opponent and kick in balls every 5-th opponent. That is all. Of course you can diversify it if you want. Use bullets, arrows, smoke etc. But there's no need. There is always maximum of 2 enemies attacking you simultaneously. You can easily kill a crown of hundreds soldiers given the time of 10 minutes. Which leads to a sad conclusion that you do not actually need new equipment, I didn't even buy a crossbow for 8th chapter(and I bought it because I wanted to see how it works). You can complete the whole game without new armor, gloves, daggers, swords. And you won't feel any difficulty without them. So you do not need to invest money into stables, tailors, workshops, because you don't need equipment, you do not need invest in anything, because you do not need money. Assassins' help is also a tool of differentiating of a game process if you wish. A huge part of a game can be easily cut out without anyone noticing. In the Witcher 2 when I play on high difficulty, I use sharpening stones, craft new equipment, collect herbs, make potions, bombs, oils to survive. I use boosts, magic anything to survive. I feel acomplishment when I get through the area filled with enemies, boss battle etc. Here I never feel difficult. During the game I never died for Christ Sake! The acrobatics alwasy rotate me during the jump. Often you hang down from the balcony even when you clearly push jumping combination. In a whole lot of missions you need precision to meet 100-sync requirements. But the game does not grant it to you. Most of side missions are dull. Yes, I can differentiate them, but I want to be engaged, I don't want to track and kill a person in every mission. I want to see the story. What kind of a story can be told in few phrases? When it comes down to the main plot it is also a garbage bin. You are never told of the functioning mechanism of eagle vision. You still do not know anything about the main powers taking part in the story, but you are induced to follow their actions and foggy explanations. It all looks like a bad amateurish science fiction. You know what, I'd prefer straight and simple "Dishonored" story to this one. It is the same thing as "LOST" movie series. You try to prolong the story and don't explain anything up until the end simply because you don't know how to explain what you have already implemented in the story. You have nothing to say. I never understood what was the point of creating big games combining gameplay from multiple genres, if any part of it is made worse than in the game you took it from. It is like Renaissance Call of Duty: don't ask, just play! Well I do not agree to that.… Expand
  39. Orctownorc
    Mar 19, 2013
    5
    ACB is a bewildering mixture of good, mediocre and BAD design choices. The good is the city and the way the game hero moves around it. Climbing and jumping is fun and the views from the rooftops are amazing. This game shows the fruits of awesome historical research. Sadly every other feature of the game get worse from there and the final product is tragically mediocre considering theACB is a bewildering mixture of good, mediocre and BAD design choices. The good is the city and the way the game hero moves around it. Climbing and jumping is fun and the views from the rooftops are amazing. This game shows the fruits of awesome historical research. Sadly every other feature of the game get worse from there and the final product is tragically mediocre considering the amount of time and effort that went into it. The combat is mediocre, and confusing. The controls are BAD. The medieval elements of story are great but TOTALLY RUINED by an idiotic and unneccessary added level of madness in the form of a time travel story, which seemingly functions to destroy a made-for-adults plot and reduce the whole thing to a product for seven year olds. A special observation needs to be reserved for the horrible playstation 2 UI which tries hard to be 'cool and 'modern' but turns out to be unwieldy ugly and UNCOOL in the extreme. ACB is finally a mediocre game. It can be picked up for around $5 on Steam sale and isn't worth much more than that.… Expand
  40. DaiBi
    Nov 30, 2016
    5
    Если кратко, игра мне не понравилась, почти совсем. Ниже будут бессистемные заметки почему именно.

    Главная претензия к активной части игры всё та же - ну слишком легко ошибиться и устроить вместо "текущего как вода паркура и стремительной и жестокой боёвки" какой то цирк дебилов. Я очень люблю в играх погружение и мне всегда кажется, что ассасины задумывались как очень иммерсивная игра,    Если кратко, игра мне не понравилась, почти совсем. Ниже будут бессистемные заметки почему именно.

    Главная претензия к активной части игры всё та же - ну слишком легко ошибиться и устроить вместо "текущего как вода паркура и стремительной и жестокой боёвки" какой то цирк дебилов. Я очень люблю в играх погружение и мне всегда кажется, что ассасины задумывались как очень иммерсивная игра, это так и есть, но только пока не начинается экшен. Готов всё списать на свои кривые руки, но имею то что имею - почти постоянно мой экшен скатывался в "full retard mode". А в этом режиме игра уже мало что интересного представляет.

    Главный виновник в вышесказанном это управление - играл на клаве (скорее всего это было ошибкой) и большую часть игры боролся не сколько с врагами, сколько с деревянным управлением.

    Несколько душераздирающих примеров:

    Эцио - липкий как жевачка, в процессе бега главная проблема для меня была избежать спонтанного прилипания и залезания на разнообразные объекты, встречающиеся на пути. Часто мне это не удавалось и возникали просто потрясающие по дебилизму ситуации, когда вместо погони Эцио забирался на пару ящиков стоящих по центу площади (мимо которых я хотел вообще то просто пробежать но видимо радиус оббега был слишком мал) и оттуда взирал отвесно вниз на 9000 стражников, которые его наконец догнали и радостно стали окружать. :D Кучи с сеном также требуют особого подхода если мы не хотим устроить цирковое представление с нырянием в них прямо перед носом догоняющего нас десятка солдат :)

    Как то раз Эцио вылез из люка, закрыл его, и почему то встал на край крышки люка и стал отвесно смотреть вниз, на закрытый люк. :D

    Погони преследования и поимки были моим самым "любимым" развлечением, вроде делаешь всё по подсказкам, жмешь лкм+шифт для того чтобы повалить на землю преследуемого, но работало это у меня через задницу и чаще всего Эцио или ничего не делал с целью или врезался в посторонних прохожих, или стаскивал проезжающего мимо всадника :blink: (там используется тот же шифт).

    В боёвке мне так и не удалось понять как быстро подбегать к цели будучи уже с оружием в руках, часто бывали ситуации когда подсвеченная цель находится в трех метров, но Эцио к ней приближается как черепаха. В паре ситуаций Эцио просто отказывался атаковать стоящего в полуметре врага и в ответ на мой яростный ПКМ просто втягивал и вытягивал хидден блэйд, как будто выпендриваясь перед обалдевшим от такого представления стражником.

    Попытки захвата в бою часто приводили не к захвату, а к подниманию оружия с земли или .... к подъему тела убитого стражника :blink: или... к стаскиванию проезжающего мимо всадника :D За всё это отвечает всё тот же шифт.

    Когда же враги захватывают Эцио игра подсказывает, что надо мол жать лкм+шифт для освобождения, однако не пишет, что на самом деле надо сначала нажать лкм и удерживая его жать шифт, и что очень важен тайминг. У меня были ситуации, когда из захвата вообще не удавалось освободится. И в одном из таких случаев, меня так удачно схватил стражник, что я оказался лицом к стенке и его товарищи не могли меня атаковать. Это был натуральный софтлок, отпускать меня он не собирался, мне освободиться не получалось. После пары минут наблюдения этой сцены, немного округленными от удивления глазами, пришлось выходить в меню.

    О всадниках - я не знаю почему, но при появлении на поле боя конного воина игра решает, что это настолько эпическое событие, что просто необходимо сделать автоматический лок на нем. Т.е. камера начинает просто сходить с ума.

    О фиксировании цели - реализован этот механизм на редкость странно, казалось бы что такое лок он? Это значит, что по нажатию кнопочки подсвеченная цель фиксируется и несмотря на положением камеры именно эта цель остается подсвеченной, так?... А вот фиг! Игра считает иначе, и залоченная цель вовсе не остается таковой и может также меняться в зависимости от того куда ты смотришь. Охрененно неудобно, особенно в стелсовых миссиях. В чем смысл такого лока я так и не понял.

    http://riotpixels.com/forums/topic/684-assassins-creed-1-2-и-аддоны/?p=806911    … Expand
  41. Berkay219
    Jul 28, 2021
    5
    The optimization is better than the 2nd game, but the fps drops from 60 to 5 in the cutscenes, although rarely, it can drop while playing.
    scenario is behind ac 2 but not bad
    but this game has a very big problem room section designs The episodes are so cancerous, even so cancerous that you forget what you're doing in the game. They ruined it by doing their best to prolong the game.    The optimization is better than the 2nd game, but the fps drops from 60 to 5 in the cutscenes, although rarely, it can drop while playing.
    scenario is behind ac 2 but not bad
    but this game has a very big problem room section designs
    The episodes are so cancerous, even so cancerous that you forget what you're doing in the game.
    They ruined it by doing their best to prolong the game.
    below average...    … Expand
  42. Suprizer
    Apr 18, 2023
    5
    A really good game for its time but really really needs a remake. I am a gamer who is fine with remakes of good og games. But not cash grab low effort ones. If they were to make this game from scratch i'd be fine with that.
  43. Magical_Viktor
    Apr 30, 2023
    5
    Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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
  53. 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.
  54. 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
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. Gleb4ik
    Feb 2, 2021
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ИГРА ХОРОШАЯ ВИДНО ЧТО СТРАЛИСЬ НО ПОКА ЧТО 2!!!!!!!!… Expand
  59. 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.
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. 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.
  63. 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
  64. 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!
  65. 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.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 24
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  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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