Not Game of the Year, Not Even Close
This game reminded me of Assassin's Creed 1 all to much. I'm very glad I only gave it a rental, because it has the same flaws that have driven me to dislike this series. So where to start, well I'm always a big critic of the story lines in videogames, so lets go there.
Story/Characters: Surprisingly I didn't hate the story in Brotherhood as much as previous games, while it was dry and rather boring, it was still imaginative at times and kept me entertained up until the end where I decided I was done with this series for good. Seriously no spoilers, but the ending makes no fucking sense and just fails so fucking hard.
The characters in Assassin's Creed have always been a point of UNinterest too. The voice acting is poor at best, they are far from interesting, and the story just drags them down too far for them to stand out from any well voiced videogame. Ezio in particular has always gone on my list of cunts in videogames. He's a very unlikeable character for me. The supporting characters drive me mad too, from the steriotypical paranoid british computer geek to the bitch of a hacker looking over your shoulder.
Gameplay: I hate it. Thats about all there is, in AC1 it was new and fun for the first few hours and then became mundane. Well by now its just become even more mediocre. While it does a good job of flowing it never impressed me, though I did get a laugh out of some of the finishers Ezio does. What it comes down to in the end is this: attack, block, counter. Over and fucking over and fucking over again. Thats it, thats all there is to say.
Graphics: Decent. I'll leave it at that. I'm not a huge critic on graphics, and these weren't the worst by any means.
Sound: Decent music for the time period, but nothing that drew me in. Soundtracks are a big part of games to me, which is why I enjoyed Mass Effect and even Halo's OST's they were original and very well made, while this kind of seems like it was put off and then thrown together from random poorly made movies.
Multiplayer: Ok so fuck this, the multiplayer was good for five minutes then it got stupid. They had an interesting idea going in but it tanked bad and became highly frustrating. So don't even play it.
In the end Assassin's Creed Brotherhood earns a 2.5/5 because they should have quit after the second one and not made AC2.5 instead. It was a neat attempt and broadening the series it just failed miserably.
