The Assassin Within

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is set to be released worldwide on November 16 2010, and that date cannot come any closer. The game will be available on the Ps3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you would know that this Game of the Year contender is set immediately after the events of the second game, picking up where Ezio left off, and seeing him building a brotherhood of assassins unlike the world had ever seen.

I would consider this game as a 2.5 in the series and not the 3rd installement, because we have the same protagonist as the second game, and it is set in the same time period (the beautiful Renaissance Italy) as ACII.

That is not a bad thing if you ask me, because ACII was one of the best games of 2009, and the giant leap it took from ACI is phenomenal to say the least. It seemed as if ACI was just Ubisoft testing their new engine and seeing how it works in (then)next-gen games. 

2 words: Online Multiplayer! 

Ok, so there is a lenghty single player that is estimated at no less than 20 hrs, and yes, in a world where publishers are getting away with 6 to 8 hours game play time (Yes God of War III, I'm looking at you!) the folks at Ubisoft are being really generous. I mean this is a game released only one year after ACII, a game that needed no less than 30 hours to complete, and yet, it has a lengthy enough game time.

But if that's not enough, they decided to include a stealthy multilpayer that is guaranteed to change the way we play online games. Call of Duty, Killzone and Battlefield Bad Company better take a backseat, because AC: Brotherhood is introducing a whole new type of online gaming.

The game will require you to be the perfect assassin, as you roam Rome (Zing!) and look for your pre-specified target, all the while acting like an NPC, so that other players don't detect your "humanitism". 

I mean, you just can't come up with stuff like this! Imagine the nerve wrecking experience you'll be going through. 

But SergioFX, how would that fit into the overall story of Assassin Creed? 

I hear you, fellow curious gamer, but fear not, for I have cracked the story, and no, the multiplayer inclusion is not just Ubisoft showing off their skills. 

You see, with the story moving towards the present day to finally merge with the Last Assassin, Desmond Miles, Abstergo Industries is looking for a new breed of hired assassins that they can use to eliminate Desmond and co. And this is where YOU come in. Jacking-into Rome in multiplayer mode, you are auditioning for Abstergo to join their party and hunt down the last Pieces of Eden. It's sort of a training ground of everyone today to get into Assassin mode and be ready for when the time is right, in 2012, which is the release date of Assassin's Creed III, definitely relating to the Mayan Prophecy of the end of the world.  

Now let's see where the game ranks on our Hyp-O-Meter: