Assassin's Creed Brotherhood follows Ezio Auditore da Firenze as he continues his adventure in Rome. He is now the leader of the Guild and has to battle against the Templars, led by the Borgia.
There will be more cinematic sequences to increase the 'epic' feeling.
Monteriggioni under attack
Manning the cannon in defense against the Papal Guard
Rome will be the only city you roam around in. It is the biggest map ever in an Assassin's Creed game and will be 3 times the size of Florence in AC2.
Map of Rome showing some symbols like viewpoints, assassination contracts, borgia towers, assassin's tombs and some unfamiliar symbols. There is a unique symbol on the colliseum.
Horses now play a bigger role than before. You can now ride your horses in cities and utilise them as part of acrobatic sequences, escapes and advanced combat. Before, you could only use the sword but now you can use various types of weapons on horseback.
Warhorse
As the leader of the Guild, you will have several assassins under your command. You can recruit more and also upgrade their armor or weaponry. These assassins can be sent on missions for money and experience points. You control all these using pigeon coops.
Pigeon Coop
Guild Management
Rome is split into several districts that require liberation. You have to kill the guard leader and destroy the tower to liberate that district. Liberated districts will have more shops where you can buy upgrades and tools. Scattered all over the city are Borgia flags to be removed.
Yet to be liberated districts are dark, the borgia towers are glowing red. Locks are a mystery.
101 Borgia flags to collect
There will be more enemy types and the guards will also be more aggresive and attack simlutaneously. To counter this, Ezio now has many more combat moves(sword and gun combo) as well as slick finishing moves( Ezio threw an axe at an enemies head). Players who strike first and strike fast are rewarded. There is also a new weapon, the crossbow.
Weapon wheel. Note the crossbow and the ability to select sword with gun or knife with throwing knife.
I'm really excited about Medal Of Honor not so much because of the multiplayer like most people but mainly because of the single player, Hopefully, it will be fully fleshed out unlike Bad Company 2 which was rather bland. Modern Warfare 2 was good but a little short. I wish the Medal Of Honor campaign will not be outshined by the multiplayer or any other game modes.
The story this time around is about the struggles of Tier One operatives involved in behind enemy lines action as well as that of the US Army Rangers in their fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. There will be plenty of sneaking around and full scale gunfights including some vehicle sequences : similar to recent first person shooters. However, seeing as Medal Of Honor is a prestigious franchise, EA LA put all their effort into research for the game and freed of multiplayer commitments, it could finally be THE Modern Warfare 2 killer. Just saying.
Below are the two trailers that have got me so excited. They don't show much, but trailers hardly do anyway.
