Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood

It's been a while, but from what I recall, this game was also pretty good, with my one annoyance coming from the Brotherhood mechanic itself. I hate time sinks in single player games, and that is a time sink that I had hoped to not touch, but I think I needed to for 100%ing the game. Other than that, it's a good game.

Gameplay: 4.5/5
Story: 4.5/5
Graphics: 3/5

Overall: 4/5

While maintaining a 4/5 score, this is ironically one of the best of the early Assassin's Creed games. Building and expanding on mechanics set up in AC2, this game had a very smooth and almost flawless combat system, as well as a very easy parkour system. Personally, I play very heavily into the collecting and exploring so having one continuous "open" map was a very nice touch to get to jump headfirst into.

The game spends the first few Sequences being an over glorified tutorial before really getting into any MEAT of the story. The last 3 sequences could've been all you played and you wouldn't have missed much of the story at all.

While I love this game and respect others who think this was the greatest AC game of all time, I respectfully disagree and give it a very close second (so far. Playing through all of them in order as of now (2/20/25)).

You play Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed games like Valhalla or Mirage, none of which have the gameplay and storyline of the Ezio trilogy.

The legacy of Ubisoft is kept alive by this trilogy.

C'Mon. This is the peak of the series. Very, very few action games since have advanced beyond what this game did, and many don't do it even as well. Ezio is a perfect character, the music is world class, and the controls are quite good for a game this old.

This is where AC peaked for me. The fact that this game was made in just around a year still astonishes me. Gameplay is greatly improved, the addition of the recruits was a welcome addition and the story, in my opinion could have been the final one with Ezio and i would have been happy. Never played the multiplayer back in the day but it always looked fun and only ever heard good things. 100% grind is more enjoyable than 2 but still can get repetitive. This game is the reason that Ezio is still the poster boy of AC.

As usual very engaging assassin's creed game play with great graphics and a historical city

Feels like a DLC of the second game, which makes it pretty good

Gameplay : 5/5
Graphics : 3/5
Audio (Sound effects, voice acting) : 5/5
Soundtrack : 5/5
Story : 5/5
Characters : 5/5
Worldbuilding : 4/5
Immersion : 4/5
Replayability : 3/5
Bugs Cleanliness : 3/5
Price/Quality Value : 5/5

Difficulty (1-Very easy, 5-Very difficult): 2/5

Overall : 4,4/5, Amazing

2nd best game in the series after AC2. The game had a significant upgrade overall and the story is great. If it wasn't for the unnecessary ending in the modern arc, it would've shifted series in a better direction.

A really good game with a compelling story. Assassin's Creed 2 is better and bigger than this game, however UI and keyboard controls of the Brotherhood are significantly better. Also AC2 has resolution limit and 60 fps frame cap, whereas there are no limits in this game.

Ubisoft, go back to your roots. The Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla "Trilogy" was also decent but nothing beats the Ezio Trilogy.

9/10. A lot of new features from AC2, but a lot of them are made redundant.

You can tell the unbelievable story to your kids that long... long time ago, some of Ubisoft games were good.

My personal favorite from the series with a really good port compared to ac2. Looks way better then it did on ps3 and runs better to. Strong story and fun gameplay

Great game, great visuals for it's time. Interesting story, I do recommend playing the first two games (Assassin's Creed I and II) too so that you could understand the context better and the game would also be a lot touchier if you also experience the character development from the past few games.
But regardless of how you are to play it, I do recommend playing this anyway, because it is a great piece of gaming history, it truly shows Ubisoft's potential as a company, even back when they were smaller than they are now.
I totally recommend playing it if you have not in 2025.
Hopefully Assassin's Creed Shadows would be a great game too...

Gameplay: 10/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 9/10
Story: 10/10
Replay/Value: 10/10

Overall: 9.8/10

game controls are annoying

personal verdict - ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ "7/10" ✅

I love the assassin's creed games. Getting to immersive yourself in a period of rich history brought to life with incredible attention to detail and quality voice acting is a modern marvel. Recommended for all ages. Thank you for letting me live through the Italian Renaissance.

Has an interesting story line. Plays much better than ac2

Assassin's Creed Brotherbood is an ok game, but the PC port is mediocre at best.

• Game suffers from audio lag.
  
• Ubisoft's launcher is here, for absolutely no reason, and it requires you to input your password every time.
  
• Game installs PunkBuster, even though Multiplayer has been shutdown.
  
• Game suffers from the exact same stuttering issue that plagued AC3 and AC Black Flag.
  
• The "Defend the villa" section still has it's difficulty tied to FPS. It's very difficult to complete while playing at 60FPS as it was designed in a way where you barely manage it at 30FPS, and it seems to be literally impossible while playing above 60FPS.
  
[*]Even when the game is running at max settings, Draw Distance is very low, so you can expect to see a lot of pop in.

The Ezio saga continues!
Back when it first came out I was super hyped for it and enjoyed it a lot, the teenager me thought brotherhood was perfect in every way now that I'm older the hype is gone I can review this installment properly.
the story is somewhat decent, not as good as the previous game but still decent especially the modern day is an improvement, the side missions are a little bit more diverse and interesting. the parkour for some reason feels inferior to AC 2 because of buggy movement, Rome is not suitable for parkour as there are many wide streets that make a lot of rooftops disconnected from one another. it is now possible to ride horses in city but you constantly run over people and face narrow alleyways so there's that. the combat is now easier than ever as you can rack up combo kills and fight large groups of enemies with ease which some might not like but I personally enjoy. it is now possible to recruit assassins and train them! and they can aid you in combat which comes very handy on some situations. there are a few new gadgets to play with and that's about it. overall albeit not as good as AC 2, Brotherhood is a fun game to play and worth getting if you are looking for an easy game to relax and enjoy.

The Ezio trilogy has to be one of the best Assassin's Creed games every created. After finishing AC2, I decided to buy the Brotherhood and Revelations and continue with the trilogy. When I first saw the trailer for AC Brotherhood on YouTube when I was a kid, it looked very bad-ass and fast forward trying the game for the first time after all these years after its release it is still a great game to enjoy. I loved exploring Rome and revisiting other storylines of Ezio's life. However, it felt frustrating at times when I was trying to get 100% on the syncs and when the controls were not doing what I wanted them to do. Furthermore, I skiped the clusters/glyphs since the reward of the puzzles didn't seem satisfying enough. Moreover, I was a little bit disappointed by the ending, since I thought that Ceaser was going to get killed in an historical accurate way and when Desmond got the apple of Eden, it felt a little bit far fetched to end it in that way (*not gonna spoil it for those who haven't played it). Kind of a shame that I wasn't able to experience the online/multiplayer mode of this game, since it seemed fun on the online gameplays (but that's understandable since that feature was available from 2010-2022). I like the mystery and history and how the old AC games present it with their own fictional storyline, so I hope that continuing to play Revelations and finishing the Ezio trilogy will make it all worth it for my time spent towards playing these games. Without further a do, Revelations here I come! Getting ready to explore Istanbul/Constantinople!

One more game which can't be passed without vertical syncronisation. 10 buckets with shit out of 10.
Can recommend this game only for those who played this game on release or reaLLY HUGE fan of AC franchise.

Great continuation and expansion from ACII, while smaller in scale it makes up for it with new ideas though regrettably the main villain is forgettable. I did run into a couple glitches near the end of the game, this can be fixed by turning on Vsync and limiting fps to 60.

A good game, though it's simply not meant for modern soft/hardware.

-Changing any primary graphical settings will cause a crash.
This on it's own makes the game unbeatable due to a majorly well-known glitch at the very end-game, which with my setup is non-fixable.

--If this is a game you want to play, get yourself a physical copy on a gaming console.

This game is OG good but for PC user? Sucks like a rifle in my mouth. Plus, I can't decode Da Vinci Code mission for "Home/Delete" button that are not compatible to my PC. Parkour animation is great but controlling the movement sucks butt. I keep getting 50% synchronization on some missions.

I loved most of it. the missions, contracts, assassin's, quests. having horses and travel tunnels was awesome.I did not like that you could not replay solo missions to get the 100 percent synchronization, I disliked some of the full synchronization goals, they were near impossible. like fight 13 mobs without losing health when you only have 5 bars of health or that same expectation of fighting tons of mobs without losing health. it might work out for gamers but for the average player not so much.

I played this for the first time now in 2025 after playing Valhalla a few months ago, and this was actually better. It's an old game that still holds up. The mechanics are quite bad at times, and tilting, but it has good fighting and story.

Improves on combat in AC2 and Ezio basically becomes overpowered through the crossbow and the assassin recruits. Parkour slightly suffers by subtly locking the angle you can jump at from a wall. The biggest weakness is the story, and oh boy is it hot garbage. What a massive letdown compared to AC2. Pretty much all characters established in AC2 has been completely ruined in AC:B, and forcefully introduces the most pathetic antagonist. Ubisoft should have just kept the original lead writer instead of being so money-hungry.
It's still recommended as you will still have a great time playing re:skinned AC2 in Rome and feeling like a god when you slice down an army of Borgia within a few seconds. The trailing missions sucked ass. Also more bugs then AC2.

Absolute must play just as amazing as the first 2 but even more features and more to learn and do late game.

I love the story the feel the visual by far one of the best entries. the only thing I don't like is the movement with a joystick. you could point right in front of you and it will have you jump 30 feet to the side killing you.

Uninstalled after 2 hours of mind numbingly boring gameplay, with cumbersome keyboard controls. Might be okay on a console, just not for me.

8/10 would be 10/10 if it was like AC1 and AC2, this game is when they start putting missions to just pad the games playtime and the 100% sync in the main story missions. Still is a good AC game tho.

Fantastic storytelling and smooth gameplay. Not stretched out and reasonable playtime hours. There is a serious bug in the last mission when you fight Cesare, you have to turn on the Vsync and set your monitor's refresh rate to 60HZ. Otherwise the cutscene will not trigger.

It's very obvious that this was AC2 DLC that got blown up into its own game, which sucks because it's necessary to understand Revelations. If you do plan on getting this, make sure to download this mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreedbrotherhood/mods/145

one of the best game of trilogy of Ezio Auditore, gameplay is much many many much better than AC 2, but parkour is not good like in AC Revelations, so pretty good AC with a lot of game content and story rich

A good connecting story between young and adult Ezio, although the story have a short duration. its still make me nostalgic,

9.5 / 10 - Amazing game! Released back in 2010 and this game is definitely worth playing in 2025. You should first play AC 2 (the prequel) to get the most out of this game. You could basically get the correct directions to and from some of the monuments around Rome today with this games map and it's a really good depiction on what ancient Rome (Colosseum and Roman Forum) probably looked like in the early 1500's.

game still looks good
full sync is annoying
final mission is bugged
good game

Ubislop and their forced third-party software which is useless, broken and unnecessary piece of $@&%. If it's purchased from Steam, it should only require that to launch and play the game. These people have no idea what customer service or satisfaction is, and that is exactly why they're in this state. Among other reasons which are too many to count at this point.

A masterpiece of a game that is ruined by their indifference as well as reluctance to listen to what the people who bought their games want or deserve. It is devoid of any sort of quality of life updates that prevents you from playing this amazing game. Get it somewhere else (you know where), and play this game how its meant to be played without any headaches.

Forced sign into Ubisoft client every time I want to play and it doesn't save the password. Why can't Ubisoft fix this since it's an amazing game overall.

Absolute Cinema!!

(They should fix the minor bugs)

Since 12/20/2024 Ubisoft Connect will not launch Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, III, Liberation, Black Flag, Rogue, Unity or Syndicate. Prior to this issue with the exact same setup i had over 144 hours alone on AC Brotherhood. Support for Ubisoft is a joke and Steam "can't do anything about it."

Prior to these issue's i'd gave the whole franchise a thumbs up cause I loved these games. Good luck. If you research these games not launching on Ubisoft Discord or anywhere online this is a plagued issue for them with no solid resolution.

It's a very good game.
A game that awakened many beautiful memories.
If there was something I don't like, it would be the lack of content because ubisoft has disabled multiplayer and online features.
And some problems related to Bugs like:
-You have to set your game to a maximum of 60 fps otherwise in some missions your controls may not work or crash.
-And special missions (Templars missions) I don't know if it's a communication error between steam and ubisoft or something else.
PS: If anyone knows a solution to the missions to the Templars, why doesn't it appear? It would be helpful.

10/10 - THE BEST DLC EVER MADE, THE MIRACLE 10 MONTH MASTERPIECE.

This is basically cut content from the original idea for Ezio's story in AC2. The Narrative continues immediately after AC2 in the vault. Play AC1 and AC2 before this.

*UBISOFT PLEASE ADD ACHIEVEMENTS*

This solves a lot of problems that Assasin's Creed 2 has and i like that although i can still spot some minor issues but that will not affect the gameplay at all.Everything has been said pretty much this is the best continuation of the story and despite the low ratings fans have given it i will play Revelations too so the story comes to an end(with Ezio).

I enjoyed it. It has a few bugs and inconveniences. Some quality of life changes from AC 2 that are nice, but some things that are annoying.

There were some bugs at the start and end of the game. Love this game tho.

Of course thumbs up but no idea wth I am supposed to be doing through most of this. It seems like it more like watching a movie than it is action. When doing missions, there are barely any instructions letting you know what it is you're supposed to be doing, so you just run around confused failing at everything until you ruin the immersion and go watch a Youtube video how to do it.

This game has so far been decent. It's just a bit frustrating with the map being so open thus relying a lot on horse mechanics. Another thing that bugged me was the Borgio towers. It was a pain in the ass to deal with when trying to unfog the map through sync points. Combat has gotten easier which is nice, the hidden blade timing is absolute dogshit now. Overall this game is shorter then ACII and slightly a bit more annoying to play but the game isn't incredibly bad.

Its a beautiful story and a part 2 of Ezio's story. Plenty of action and exploration.