I need some advice, and turned to Giant Bomb forums.... I want to get into Assassins Creed, after buying and playing the first AC for a few days, I put it down and never got to it and eventually sold it. Now, I hear the game-play has improved and the game is "amazing" so my question to you is.......  Does AC: Brotherhood kind of catch you up on the storyline of AC:1 and AC:2? or would I be lost at the very beginning of Brotherhood? I really want to get Brotherhood because of its added mutiplayer aspect. I just want a good story that presents itself to a new player....any thought?

Nope. You'll be boned. You can speedrun AC1 in about 6 hours, if you want, or watch videos and read the wiki, but you have to play AC2 to get any of what's going on in Brotherhood. Also, Assassin's Creed 2 was a goddamn great game, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice to not play it. And if you just want a great story to jump into, start with 2 (but do some preliminary research on AC1). AC2 is a great game, and you'll save some money and be able to enjoy Brotherhood a little down the line.

I'd probably just start with 2, and then get into Brotherhood.  You can pick up AC2 pretty cheap now after all, and it is a pretty good experience still.

You will absolutely need to play AC2 to understand what happens in AC:B

You need to play 2 but you can skip the first game. 2 is great so there isn't really anything to stop you from playing it.

You can easily skip 1, but if you don't play 2 you will be completely clueless throughout Brotherhood.

I never really paid attention to the story in AC games, so I had no trouble playing AC2.
 
You should just look up a plot summary on wiki.

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Play AC2, it's a great game.  AC1 you can just look up for story reasons, but I liked the first game so I would recommend playing it.

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I'm going to get AC: II, although multiplayer in Brotherhood is a good selling point....o well

" Nope. You'll be boned. You can speedrun AC1 in about 6 hours, if you want, or watch videos and read the wiki, but you have to play AC2 to get any of what's going on in Brotherhood. Also, Assassin's Creed 2 was a goddamn great game, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice to not play it. And if you just want a great story to jump into, start with 2 (but do some preliminary research on AC1). AC2 is a great game, and you'll save some money and be able to enjoy Brotherhood a little down the line. "

If I remember right, there's a recap of AC1 at the start of AC2.