And there we have it. This review is on the long side -- one of our longest ones this year, in fact -- and we could easily go on and on singing the praises about Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and evangelise about how the other two games have merely been stepping stones on the way to creating this,...

Free-running and fighting around Roma; It feels more fluid than ever, Burning Borgia towers down and re-building the city; The money system is very rewarding, The refreshingly unique multiplayer experience

The texture popping; but we're really picking at straws

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood would be easier to love if it didn't closely follow Assassin's Creed II . You can have some fantastic gaming experiences while you spend the 30 or 40 hours it takes to do everything important in Brotherhood , but little issues along the way keep everything from coming...

One of the first games I bought after I got my X360 was Assassin's Creed II. For hours I was Ezio Auditore, a man who after the murder of his father and brothers pledged to take revenge for the injustice that was done to his family. Long story short: a great game that made me long for more.

The ladies of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood have both bark and bite. If you played Assassin's Creed II , then you already know Caterina Sforza, the comely Italian countess with a soft spot for sly, rugged assassins.

Huge; beautiful city stuffed with amazing details; Lairs and other platforming sequences are fantastic; Long; with lots of fun and varied activities; Economy is more meaningful than before; All sorts of improvements; big and small

Main story is disappointing; Assassin recruitment is contrived and ultimately meaningless; Glitches

A few nitpicks aside, "Assassins Creed: Brotherhood" is hands-down, the best game in the series and one of the finest games of this generation. Managing to accomplish the impossible by providing viewers with a compelling fluid, narrative only a year after its phenomenal predecessor along with a...

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Forget those last two paragraphs though - the scales are most definitely tipping in favour of 'BUY THIS NOW'. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is one of this year's finest releases, and improves on everything we loved about the previous title, while adding plenty of its own excellent features.

Let's deal with the elephant in the room right now: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood isn't a quick cash-in on last year's massively successful and (mostly) critically-acclaimed sequel. It's not a full-blown sequel, either; this isn't Assassin's Creed 3 .

With the help of a young inventor names Leonardo da Vinci you will get various weapons for your arsenal like poison blade, smoke bombs and even a flying machine. Assassins Creed Brotherhood is a definite upgrade to its predecessor. Everything has been improved upon in this game.

Just a year after the excellent Assassin's Creed II, some thought Assassin's Creed Brotherhood would be a nice bit of Christmas filler before the real ACIII came out. However, Ubisoft have produced a lot more than that.