Assassin's Creed games.

About to finish up AC II. Do I need to play Brotherhood and Revelations to get ready for AC III? I read the Revelations is not crucial to the plot so maybe I could watch some Youtoube of that one?

Revelations does little to move the plot forward, Brotherhood does have some value to the plot. Sepewrath

[QUOTE="Sepewrath"]Revelations does little to move the plot forward, Brotherhood does have some value to the plot. The_Rick_14

Revelations doesn't do much in terms of overall story progression of the series. But at least there is a bit of closure with Ezio's story.

i'm playing revelations right now and i'm in the begining of the game. i'm a little frustated that the game doesn't tells anything important to the plot, but i'll finish it anyway.

What you have to take into consideration is Desmonds story since he will be prominent in AC3. Like others here I'd say Brotherhood has quite a lot to offer on the Desmond side but Revelations has very little with a lot of the Desmond sequences actually being optional. That being said you could easily get away with just reading a little about Desmond and move on to AC3.

Revelations doesn't do much to advance the story, it does wrap up Ezio and Altiar's though. I think its worse in story and gameplay than 2 and brotherhood, but it was still a fun game and worth playing through if you played and enjoyed the other 3. plus it seems like you can get it for cheap so I'd still recommend it.

Revelations was pretty useless in moving the plot foward. It basically just filled in some loose ends, but nothing really significant, it's up to you though.
On the other hand, you should probably play Brotherhood.

Play them both, Revelations advances Desmond Miles' story by significantly. And so does Brotherhood.

Both Brotherhood and Revelation advance Desmond story forward, you should play both games.

I'm so relieved ACIII is going to be so fresh and different story wise. As much as I love this franchise, I'm nearly forcing myself to keep going through Revelations just to finish it, even though barely paying any attention to the plot. It's just not holding me like I, II, and Brotherhood did

Both Brotherhood and Revelation advance Desmond story forward, you should play both games.

Sokol4ever

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Both Brotherhood and Revelation advance Desmond story forward, you should play both games.

Minishdriveby

Of course, why play any game that advanced forward the series? We can just watch the cut-scenes on youtube...because they actually contain all the information we need, right?

It's an option I guess..but not the one I recommend.

[QUOTE="Minishdriveby"][QUOTE="Sokol4ever"]

Both Brotherhood and Revelation advance Desmond story forward, you should play both games.

Sokol4ever

Of course, why play any game that advanced forward the series? We can just watch the cut-scenes on youtube...because they actually contain all the information we need, right?

It's an option I guess..but not the one I recommend.

Sure you can pay $30 for Revelations and play the 5 hour campaign, and pay $20 for brotherhood and play a slightly longer campaign, but there's no reason to when he can just get the information he wants online for free.

I wish I had did that instead of buying the two games.