Brotherhood extends ACII into an open Rome with a delightful assassin-recruit system and a bold multiplayer experiment. Ezio remains magnetic and every corner of the city hides a side mission worth chasing.
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Category
Action Adventure1 player18+
Description
Action-adventure by Ubisoft Montréal and Ubisoft, November 2010. Ezio Auditore expands the Assassin Brotherhood in Rome by recruiting and training new members to fight the Borgias. New recruit recruitment and mission-sending mechanics, Roman economy management and online multiplayer. Third episode of the Ezio saga continuing AC Brotherhood.
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, Renaissance sonorities and ethereal choirs into a score of spellbinding elegance. The sublime "Ezio's Family", now an emblem of the saga, crystallises all the melancholy of Ezio's journey. This refined sonic richness, at the crossroads of old and modern, marks a peak of the series.
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Recruiting and deploying a brotherhood of assassins adds a fresh tactical layer to free climbing and counter-based combat. Roaming an open Rome by scaling every last building delivers an exhilarating fluidity of movement. The combat system stays forgiving, but the wealth of activities and the ease of the parkour make it an outing that's always a pleasure.
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾6,6 GB📅16/11/2010
Published by Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed - Brotherhood (Xbox 360) price, value & rarity
North American (NTSC-U) edition of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, an entry that extends Ezio's adventure by adding brotherhood management and an innovative multiplayer, a liked step of Ubisoft's saga. Very widespread in North America, its collector interest is modest. An accessible piece for those completing Ezio's trilogy, whose desirability rests on set coherence rather than its own value.
Is Assassin's Creed - Brotherhood still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2010 on Xbox 360, Ubisoft's Brotherhood bets on keeping Ezio and turning Rome into a single playground, and it wins. Recruiting assassins, training them and summoning them with a whistle adds a delightful tactical layer. The vast, living city is reclaimed district by district. The original stalking multiplayer has lost its servers, but the campaign stays gripping and fluid. A few missions with rigid stealth show their age. For action adventure fans and lovers of Ezio, this entry remains one of the most polished and enjoyable to roam through today.
