AC Brotherhood is the direct sequel to AC II with Rome under Cesare Borgia, assassin network to manage, revolutionary multiplayer. Improves everything that made AC II excellent. One of the best in the saga.
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Action Adventure4 players18+
Description
Direct sequel to Assassin's Creed II with Ezio Auditore rebuilding the brotherhood in a Rome corrupted by the Borgia family. Published by Ubisoft, released in 2010 across Japan, Korea, North America, Europe and the United Kingdom. Recruit and rank up apprentice assassins, burn down Borgia towers, sabotage Leonardo's war machines, scale Roman monuments, plus the saga's first competitive multiplayer mode.
Assassin's Creed - Brotherhood review
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Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Historical recreations of astonishing breadth, from the rooftops of Florence to the sunlit Caribbean: each era lives again with a dizzying care for detail. The architectural coherence and worked-over light turn History into a sumptuous playground. This visual ambition, vast and polished, defines the historical open world.
Signed by Jesper Kyd, the music blends ambient pads, ethereal choirs and Renaissance sonorities to dress Ezio's Italy. The sublime "Ezio's Family", of a poignant melancholy, became an instant anthem. This refined, atmospheric sonic identity ranks among the finest of the saga.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Scaling cathedrals and rooftops to unlock viewpoints, melting into the crowd, then striking with a hidden blade sets up a loop of urban freedom that always nudges toward the next objective. Contracts, chests and feathers to collect keep the exploration rolling. A few tailing missions wear thin, but the elegance of the parkour and the density of Renaissance Italy hold you for the long haul.
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Stretching the formula across an entire Rome to liberate, Brotherhood adds recruiting and managing a brotherhood of assassins, hideouts to restore and a wealth of scattered challenges. Ezio's main thread is doubled by side activities and a fresh multiplayer that noticeably lengthen the ride. That generosity is why it's still named among the most complete entries.
A direct Ezio sequel that brought multiplayer to the saga, a massive hit printed everywhere in huge numbers. Its wide distribution keeps it common and cheap, with no underlying scarcity. Its interest lies in its pivotal place in the Ezio arc, the franchise's most beloved, but it stays an accessible heritage title rather than a piece coveted for scarcity.
Better with friends
Beyond the solo adventure, the saga built a singular competitive mode where you stalk a human target by blending into the crowd rather than charging in. The tension springs from bluff and patience: spotting the real player among the extras delivers rare thrills. The online side relies on servers whose activity is no longer guaranteed, but the idea remains one of the genre's most striking.
Is Assassin's Creed - Brotherhood still worth playing in 2026?
Brotherhood remains one of the saga's peaks and has aged remarkably well. The Rome rebuilt under Cesare Borgia offers a coherent playground, and managing the network of assassins adds a strategic layer that still pleases. The pacing is tighter than in AC II, the missions more varied, and Ezio's arc gains intensity. Even its multiplayer, a pioneer at the time, holds an original idea rarely revisited since. For anyone discovering the Ezio trilogy or wanting to dive back in, it earns a wholehearted recommendation.
