A fabulously detailed and lovingly produced version of the entire city of Rome is open for your exploration. Now Brotherhood lays wide the great metropolis of Western antiquity. The previous game in the series, Assassin’s Creed II, was set in the north of Italy, in Florence and Venice. ![]() ![]() Here in the early 21st century, you are actually a modern Assassin named Desmond Miles who is strapped into a machine that gives him access to the memories of his ancestors, in this case Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a nobleman and Assassin whose family and holdings have been ravaged by the Borgia clan. In Renaissance Italy the Assassins, led by Machiavelli and aided by Leonardo, are at war with the Templars, led by the Borgia. But no other series creates such enjoyably evocative renderings of the ancient and medieval worlds as Assassin’s Creed, published by Ubisoft of France.Īs in the previous games in the series, your character is still a member of the Assassins, a cryptic order devoted over the millenniums to battling a rival cult known as the Templars over nothing less than the soul of humanity. For instance, the most successful and appealing dimension of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption games have been their settings in modern urbanism and the Old West. That is because it has recently become clear that the best games usually have a strong relation to the real world. With Brotherhood, the Assassin’s Creed series takes a clear spot as one of the most interesting and important game franchises around. A swashbuckling revenge tale set amid otherworldly conspiracies, Brotherhood is a fine historical adventure brimming with wit and flair. This is Rome in 1500, the expansive, captivating and stylish world of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Directly beneath me, in the dungeons of the debased Rodrigo Borgia (also known as Pope Alexander VI), the Countess of Forli, Caterina Sforza, languishes as I plot her rescue. In the distance below, beyond streets teeming with merchants and thieves, beggars and courtesans, I spy the Colosseum and the Pantheon. ![]() Perched like a ballet dancer atop the giant, majestic flagpole rising from the pinnacle of Castel Sant’ Angelo, I survey the seven hills of the ancient city rolling to the horizon before me.
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