Revolutionary, Highly Addictive, Total Anarchy, and just awesome plain awesome.
The main story:
It's simple. You need to Kill the Batman. Kidding of course =P
Ezio returns back to MONTERRIGONI ( the place where Mario trains Ezio in Assasssin Creed 2 ) and the game throttles you with so many things going on at once. The Borgia family lives on. Rodrigo Borgia(The Pope) has been spared in the second Assassin Creed game, and now his son and his whole army is trying to wreck havoc and destroy Ezio, the whole Auditore family and to control Roma Italy in the process. We are presented with a-lot of people that appeared in the second A.C game, and a few others that i won't spoil for you. The story progression and character development isn't nearly as enticing and exhilarating as the second Assassins Creed, but it does go that distant and keeps you glued to your seat !
Graphics: 8.5/10
This is with everything maxed, Multi-Sample 8x(maxed) on 1080p resolution. The game still looks excellent, but detail retrieval on buildings isn't nearly as good as the second game. This may be due to the fact that in the second game, we were traveling all over the places and it added some placebo and made everything you look at very vibrant and crisp. In Brotherhood, we are just in one city(Rome) so this tends have a much less impact graphic wise. IMO, the Assassin Creed series need to step it up in graphics. Cannons going off, lighting, "shimmery" effect is pretty neat, but i would really like to see something visually stunning.
Gameplay:
I will try to keep this short. The gameplay in Brotherhood is absolutely terrific. It is vastly improved from the second game, and there are nice additions to the cross-bow, and some other sleek and stylish toys that you get from Leonardo. Countering feels more neutral and back to back assassinations/combos movement is just brilliant. From chasing someone on foot and tackling him from a high beam to dodging spears from horses to shooting people off horses to riding and diving from Leonardo's inventions to climbing buildings as high as the skyscraper. THIS GAME DELIVERS.
Side Quests are also highly addictive. You won't even want to start your next Assassin Memory mission unless you do some quests or renovate buildings or explore templar lairs, etc.., etc..
I didn't care much about what i did after Assasssins Creed 2, but playing Brotherhood gives me an itch to want to collect everything and complete full synchnorization as much as i can.
Multi player is extremely fun as well. This is a direct sequel of Assassin Creed 2, and it may have some flaws(here and there) and it might not be as unique or original as the second, but with some lucky charms added by Ubisoft ; and not to mention a masterpiece soundtrack by Jesper Kyd that astonishes, amazes, and immersifies you in each and every sequence and captures the mood and momentum to near perfection. This sequel has turned out to be the best roller coaster ride that i have had in quite a while.
40 hours played over a coarse of 6 days. I haven't even touched any other game upon purchasing Brotherhood.
Get this game NAO.