Played my first online game last night... Pretty fun. Better then I thought it would be!

Just started playing today, got up to sequence 3 in single player, and liking it better than AC2 so far, which is probably one of my top 5 360 games. Also played a few multiplayer matches and really liked it, hopefully I can finish the single player by this friday so I can play multiplayer all weekend.

End up finally finishing this after starting it mid Jan (from backlog).

Ending spoilers:
I liked the ending. Gives you time to think until the next one. My guess prior to this game was Lucy was a templar. Signs + ending leads you to fully believe it now. Signs I am referring to are she would disappear from the animus room and footprints were red, "she" reference in Subject 16, the end scene, etc. I wonder who are the people that are helping Desmond.

As for the final animus scene, the fight was just so random. He gets arrested then somehow gets out, assembles a crazy army and completely destroys some random town we don't care about. I guess maybe the filler will be released as DLC later on. The fight itself was just boring. Like someone posted earlier in the thread, I wish it was just set up as a mission by sneaking in somewhere then either a stealth assassination on him or a quick fight (give him stats similiar to the regular boss you fight directly on).

As for the last sequence, I wish they toned down the platforming section. At that point, I felt it was wasted so I got bored. I felt the same boredom during the scene were they originally get to the Animus room in Montenegro.


Overall though great game. Really for the most part enjoyed it alot.

I don't have much to add but wanted to say that I agree 100% with your spoiler points.

New DLC coming soon! Single player AND multiplayer!

Ubisoft has announced a new, massive-sounding DLC pack for its well-received manhunter, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The pack, titled "The Da Vinci Disappearance," is centered around just that -- following the events of the single-player storyline, Ezio's helpful, crafty companion Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by the cult of the Hermeticists, who hope to pick his brain to bend the world to their seedy will. Ezio will have to locate his stolen painting across two new areas while exercising two new, undetailed "gameplay features" in order to emancipate the renowned inventor from his captors. The DLC also includes a metric ton of content for the title's multiplayer component, including four new characters: The Dama Rossa, the Knight, the Marquis and the Pariah. The game's roster of maps will be expanded with "Alhambra," a lush quarter of a Spanish city, providing hunters and huntees with a multileveled indoor and outdoor environment to slink through. Also, two new modes will be added: Escort, where two teams of four players must assassinate the opposing team's VIP while protecting their own; and Assassinate, a straightforward, ten minute round of Deathmatch. See ya, subtlety! The pack will be released at the "beginning of March 2011," and will run shoppers 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and the equivalent $9.99 on PS3. Check out some screens of the new map and its violent inhabitants in the gallery below, or check out the trailer after the jump for a preview of the new single-player missions!

--joystiq

A little too late and a little too much $$ in my book.

While the DLC sounds interesting (that seems like an acceptable amount of content for $10), I've lost interest in the game and the DLC won't renew it...

I just can't put up with entire lobbies using Templar Vision to make up for how terrible their perception and attention span are. (this is post-40's in level, at least)

beat the single player, the end level environment was pretty. and that other thing.



man, how do people get 3500 points in multiplayer!! i get like 4 kills a match and always miss my target.

this one time i was on a rope and saw my pursuer she came on the rope and i was waiting for a defense attack and she just walked through me killing me. in other chase. the character dropepd into hay, so did i, i waited for her to pop out and before i could assassinate i got hit by a smoke bomb and stunned. i was in the hay dammit.

some people are good at flanking but even when i see it i cant stop it. this guy dropped right in front of me and before the game even gave me the option to stun i was killed by him.

this compass doesn't like me. it was fully blue and telling me my target was in range, couldn't find her, when i did it was a civilian and my target was on the other side of the wall.

another time my pursuer was chasing me and JUMPED IN FRONT of me, i smile and before i could do anything boom he did a 180 and instakilled me.

i wish more poeple played and i wish i could play better, i so far i haven't done better than 7th.

Well timesplitt, I think you just summarized up the problems with AssCreed's MP. It is great, really innovative, but a good portion of the difficulty is fighting against the game system and not, unfortunately, other players skill.

But a more useful response.... Smoke Bomb > Attacker > Defender.

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So on the DLC with the Da Vinci missions, after you beat them, does it drop you back in Rome so you can finish up any side quests left over, or does the game lock you out of Rome?