Assassins Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer

Assassins Creed Brotherhood Multiplayer

CSU Cauldron

Date: 1/28/2011, Assassin’s Creed

Stabby Time: Now With Friends! ASSASSIN’S CREED

Finally, we’re provided with a multiplayer option that allows you to release the pent up aggression of having lost countless Halo matches all over your friend’s faces. Not being a fan of the typical First Person Shooter multiplayer fare, I really hoped this game would allow me to exact revenge against friends who prefer said fare. As it would turn out, my deepest hope for revenge was satiated in the best possible way. As with most games including a multiplayer option, the single player (with whatever the story happens to be) acts as a tutorial for the more intense player versus player matches that will keep fans holding onto this title longer than an extended Gamefly rental.

At the outset, you’re given a choice of eight avatars (I usually chose the doctor or priest) to bloody the streets of your match with, and after picking some special abilities, you’re thrust into an intense cat and mouse game, playing both the cat and mouse simultaneously. In most of the game modes, you’re tasked with killing one person, while dodging another one at the same time. It’s an early place to get tricky, but right about now it does; let’s say you need to kill the blacksmith and you see a herd of them plodding by. Which one do you sneak up behind and dispatch in the slickest way possible? This is where the abilities come in; you have the option of myriad skills, some aiding in the decision of which among this herd of blacksmith needs to be sent to his maker. The most beneficial of these is templar vision; this allows you to see an outline around your target. You must do all of this while trying your best to keep away from another assassin, tasked with sending you to the god of your choice. He or she will more than likely have other fun abilities set up, including poison; allowing someone to brush against you and kill you slowly, turning your screen green after a matter of seconds, causing confusion, followed by shock, and finally a string of expletives at the one who poisoned you, only to hear a satisfied chuckle. The other game mode is strictly cat and mouse; you spend one round hiding and blending in as a team followed by one round stabbing as a team. This allows you to become familiar with both aspects of the game, remaining unseen and stabbing bitches colorfully, one at a time before jumping off a roof (to impale your target with a hidden blade) with both feet, so to speak.

This game isn’t without fault; this in this case it’s caused by other players however. A big part of stealthily killing others is blending in with your surroundings. Lots of players instead opt to run around the rooftops and jump all over buildings like a bunch of idiots obsessed with parkour, often earning derision and mockery from the rest of the gamers present.

Now get to stabbing and get your revenge on! Rent this game for the single player, Buy it for the multiplayer.