E3 2010: From The Show Floor - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Gameplay (SP & MP)

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Dan Webb

If you read our recent hands-on preview of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's multiplayer, you may already know that we're pretty impressed with what Ubisoft Montreal had to offer. You know, something a little different and something that's truly in the true spirit of the game.

Being the ever resourceful chaps that we are, we were also on hand at E3 to catch more than a snippet of the game in action - both single player and multiplayer. While you may have already seen the single player walkthrough at the Ubisoft press conference, the multiplayer did not get the same sort of treatment, so you should definitely check that out.
 
If you're itching for more info and haven't already read our preview yet, don't forget to check that out.





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  • wow this game is looking awesome can't wait.
  • Assassin's creed got it right, put out a seperate game for the multiplayer trial. Take note of this Rockstar... don't put it in as an after thought just to try it. Ubisoft is brilliant, they are pulling a bold and what's sure to be a successful move.
  • I wish they weren't doing multiplayer because they always shorten the single player to do so, for example GTA 4 compared to every other ridiclously long GTA game. Still going to be an awesome game though.
  • but the real question is...Will America see the Codex Edition?
  • I'm a huge fan of this series, and was hesitant at first about Brotherhood. Then E3 happened, and Brotherhood became my biggest game of the holiday season, yet I was still leery of the multiplayer. After seeing this, I'm even more ecstatic.
  • I will get getting this Nov. 16 another game to my collection, and good question #4 will America see the codex edition? I guess Nov. 16.
  • Ezio... I like your taste in women! RED HEAD! However its sad that an entire army was able to make its way to the villa without anyone knowing...
  • I was as well a little sketchy about the multiplayer, AC has always been a fantastic single player game, but after seeing these videos, the multiplayer looks amazing, ON TOP of a great single player campaign, easy buy in my books.
  • @2 I think developers need to take a note from Rockstar on multiplayer. GTA4 has almost always been in the top 10 played MP's since it's release and Red Dead's MP is being played by alot of people. I'm sorry you don't like them but Rockstar's multiplayer for games is far from an after thought in their development. Really looking forward to this. I'm glad they added MP to this series, AC's SP was only good for one playthrough for me.
  • Wow. I was very skeptical of the multiplayer ... but that looks phenomenal.
  • I was afraid that this games multiplayer was going to suck. After watching these videos i am now confident that this could be a very fun overall multiplayer.
  • @10 I'll second that Bring On November!
  • The multiplayer on this looks like The Ship from steam.
  • Was that Cliffy B's head constantly popping on screen?
  • Is there actually any proper combat online? Its online looks like 3rd person alien vs predator.
  • #9 if you call GTA4 and Red Dead's multiplayer good then you haven't been playing very good online games. With unstable servers, poor hit detection, and as many glitches as can be imagined I think maybe you haven't played them much yourself or you would know.
  • wow i thought this was just a money making gimmick but it actually looks pretty damn good!
  • Like others I was skeptical of a multiplayer addition to Assassin's Creed, but this looks really fun and well-executed. I still have to play AC2, but my hopes for this game have been raised dramatically.
  • @16 I've played close to 200 xbox 360 games, almost all of them online, believe me I know a good MP when I play one, and both GTA4 and Red Dead are great MPs. I never encountered one problem with GTA4 servers or game, Red Dead has had some issues like most of the other games at launch(MW2, BfBC2, etc.) but they are being fixed pretty fast. Games don't get into the Top 10 played games on LIVE unless they are really good. Say what you want but the FACT is GTA4 has been in the top 10 played games for over 2 years, that doesn't happen unless people like the MP in the game.
  • @16 I forgot to add if you want to check if I have played GTA4 and RDR my GT is "Asilent Boome". I'm currently playing RDR, and I have 1470gs in GTA 4, the only achieve I don't have is the Petrovic achievement. I reached the highest rank in MP in GTA4, and I'm at rank 33 in RDRs MP. Anyway, I've played Rockstars MP alot, so I would know.
  • this is going to be epic, and @19 no one plays gta4 multiplayer anymore it was fun until people realized there were games like cod, bfbc,halo, and gears of war
  • @13 yeah i didnt even think of that until you said it
  • #19-20 yeah no doubt you have played these to death. Also the only reason people play the online for GTA anymore I'm sure is for free roam which gets old after about 10 minutes. Red Dead is headed for that same thing if Rockstar doesn't fix the multiplayer. Just imagine if they had devoted all of their time to either the mp or the story the game would have been the best game ever instead of what its headed for which isnt good.
  • @21 That's why it's still in the top 10 played games on LIVE, right? I don't play GTAs MP anymore either. I'm just trying to point out to #2 that Rockstar doesn't just tack on their multiplayer, if there's still enough people playing it that after 2 years release and it's still in the top 10 of games played on LIVE, the multiplayer isn't tacked on. #2 can say the MP sucks or they don't like it, whatever to each his own on what they like, but the MP isn't tacked on nor does Rockstar need to take "note" from Ubisoft on how to do MP.
  • @24 ITS IN THE FUCKING TOP 10 BECAUSE THERE ARENT THAT MANY OTHER MULTIPLAYER GAMES!!!!!!, there is halo, bfbc, gears of war, cod im sure a couple more let me know what i forgot
  • @23 "Also the only reason people play the online for GTA anymore I'm sure is for free roam which gets old after about 10 minutes." Isn't Free Roam part of the MP? When's the last time you were online in GTA? Race and GTA Race is still played alot. I got bored of GTAs Free Roam faster than that, I'm not trying to make you like GTA's MP, to each his own. I just don't see how a MP can do that good if they are tacked on. Also, when you say Rockstar needs to take note from Ubisoft thats not that great of an idea imo. Ubisoft has it's share of launch problems for some titles to like Far Cry 2 (which they took almost a year to address) and i'm sure some other titles too. No developer can say they haven't had some kind of problems.
  • @25 how many games have released since GTA 4 that have MP? Alot, probably over 100 games easily, not that many great ones but that just goes more to my point. I'm not trying to make anyone love GTA or it's MP i'm just saying that it's not tacked on. A tacked on MP isn't played 2 years after release.
  • @27 oh im sorry i guess i forgot about the 30 more people that still play gta 4 mp over some other crappy multiplayer game, and i would be more than happy to see a link showing me the top 10 games played on xbox live
  • @28 All you have to do is scroll down. http://majornelson.com/Default.aspx
  • @29, that doesnt say anything about multiplayer its just the top 10 games being played, so for all you know it could be all single player
  • "Nicely Done"
  • @asilent boom Yeah that's just games being played. And GTA4 is Number 10 lol. Plus, it could be single player, because the Forza 3 demo is there, and so is Trials HD. OT: So glad I saw this video. Was gonna get Fable 3, but then saw how badly that game could be improved on then look at this and it's sooo much better. Graphics improved, combat improved, free roam improved, and even the multiplayer looks amazing.
  • @Sadpanda45 youre fucking retarded hahaha.
  • @33 how am i retarded i just won that argument
  • @34 Lol. First off, if you think the people are only playing single player on GTA 2 years after release you are retarded, yes some of the numbers are for single player but most I'm willing to bet are for MP. Why? Because all the other games in the top 15 are MP heavy, why wouldn't we assume it's mostly MP still being played. Like I said before, I was pointing out to #2 Rockstar just doesn't tack on its MP to it's games, it's still being played by alot of people. @32 Thats the full game of Forza which is has MP, it gives you the option to download the demo from that page. Most of the numbers are for MP, some for single player, it would be retarded to pretend those are mostly people only playing the single player in GTA 4 2 years after it's release and considering it's surrounded by titles that are MP heavy and one that just released last November, Left 4 Dead 2, and there's an MP only demo(Transformers) under that. It's safe to assume most of them are playing MP imo.
  • @35 And you know for a fact that more people are playing mp on gta 4 than single player, because if you have proof i would be more than happy to see that too
  • oh a little addition everything on there can be played single player, im not saying more people play the single player than mp for all those games but it is certainly possible that for some they do, especially a game like gta that is built as a strong single player game
  • @36 I really don't care what your assumptions are. If you want to think you won, you win.
  • Another thing, I don't see why you don't think people are still playing GTA's MP, and do you really care? I was playing the Transformers:WFC MP only demo during the week they have the list for, TF:WFC was #12 on that list. There is a counter on the demo that tells you how many people are online when your playing, like COD and Halo have, I saw it reach as high as 5000+ people online at once when I was playing, and I played the demo alot. So there are more people playing GTA than that, that's alot of people who are playing SP and no MP. I'm going to assume they are playing both. I see people on my friends list still playing the game to, mostly MP. If you really want proof grab GTA 4 and jump into MP, you'll find a game.
  • @39... Did you even read my first few comment im not denying that people still play gta mp im just saying that im sure more people are playing the single player than the mp (mostly because other than free roam gta mp is gay)
  • Alright aslient boom since apparently you arent gonna give up here I will just say one thing. Most multiplayer games that came out like halo and bad field bad company came out with betas to test their multiplayer before release. Rockstar hasn't done any of this. Given they have a bigger mp to address but to say they are fixing the flaws fast is a joke. Plenty of games have gone off with minor hiccups and flawless. Red dead won't let me play with people in my posse, people cheat the spawns, and glitched up games. It was poorly tested and in my opinion not very well thought out. It was good but not as great as it could have been with testing.
  • Ezio! It'sa me! Mario!
  • Need this game!
  • played first and second, they were both amazing.
  • I wonder why noone tried to shoot the presenter...
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