Above: The Colosseum makes an appearance in AC: Brotherhood
Single player:
- The game is set in Rome, not far away from the cities of Venice and Florence, which formed the backdrop of Assassin's Creed 2.
- It promises 15 hours of single-player gameplay.
- In the single player game Ezio returns, now a Master Assassin, and is tasked with cleaning up corruption that is rife in the Italian capital.
- Ezio will meet up with Italian noblemen like Leonardo Da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza - which dates the game sometime in the early 1500s.
- Ezio can now train a 'brotherhood' of young assassins and use them as he wishes to fight the Templar order.
- Weapons and gadgets look set to include poison darts, fans, blades, claws, guns, a new version of Assassin's Creed 2's flying machine and a parachute, should you need to bail out.
- Villa management is re-presented on a more epic scale, with Ezio able to spend cash on rebuilding parts of Rome - in the process unlocking new missions and factions.
Above: These are some of the multiplayer character classes
Multiplayer:
- Although multiplayer is a new addition to the series and Ubisoft are bigging it up, this is not just a multiplayer add-on pack with a single-player afterthought - as the above details make clear.
- We can't name any specific multiplayer modes, but players will be able to chose different character classes, which feature their own weapons and killing methods. It's not hard to imagine free-for-all deathmatch and team-based games working well - and it's conceivable UbiSoft will produce specific multiplayer maps that are either modified areas from the main game or entirely multiplayer specific.
