Also would like to say, don't even bother buying this game if you haven't played ACII. You won't get half of what is going on. You can totally skip ACI - they gave a nice little short intro at the beginning of ACII to catch you up, but they pretty much toss you right into the mix in Brotherhood.ACII playthrough is almost required to get all you can from this. There are a few tutorial type mission at the very beginning, but it was very sparse and probably not really enough if you hadn't played ACII and not really enough for you to know what is going on.
The hubby bought me this game for Christmas. Of course the fact that I had just wrapped ACII a few days earlier I was pretty excited to tear into Ezio's further adventures and of course a little bit more about what was happening with Desmond and the rest of the crew.
So far, so good. I like that they give you more to do with money. In ACII I had well over 500,000 florins by the time I finished playing with nothing to do with them. All the 'rebuilding' that they expanded from ACII is a great way to spend money, as well as the gathering of objects for special shop missions in order to get better gear.
Rome and it's countryside is probably about the size of all the other cities put together, so even though you don't move from city to city, there is much ground to cover. They replaced the quick travel with a tunnel system that - once you have fixed the entryways - pretty much opens the whole city to you.
The Followers of Romulus hideouts are a nice way to have the Assassin's Tomb sidequests without making it feel tacked on.
The blackboards in the Guilds are an awesome addition as well. You can do the challenges or you can ignore them, but it adds more reason to do certain actions in the game.
Also the Assassins in your guild - the game is called 'brotherhood' after all and not 'solo' - is also another great addition. You play a thoughtful chess game with their missions and their ability to come and help you out of a pinch is really helpful and kind of exciting! The first time I called on them my first recruit, a female assassin all in black, jumped out of the shadows and killed the target so quickly I didn't have much time to even appreciate how cool it was until I thought about it in retrospect.
I am experiencing some issues with guards attacking though I have no infamy and am not in a restricted area, which feels odd, but it's a minor complaint, as well as the return of no save choices that I have already complained about ad naseum in conjunction to this game.
The full synch versus a 50% synch if you don't complete the mission to the games specs can be annoying. In order to do a 100% synch in some cases you will have to play the same memory again and again. I am not sure if I like this idea or if it pisses me off. In a certain part of my brain I think it's awesome. It makes you think out of the box in some cases and try harder. In other cases they are trying to force you to play it twice - once to stop along the way, gather all the treasures, makes sure you have explored every place, and then a second time to beat the clock. (Or whatever the particular proviso for that missions is.) Is the pay off big enough to do it twice - or more times? I am not sure yet.
I am sure I will get back to you on that.
I will say that a few of the flashback memories have been REALLY interesting, filling in some gaps from ACII. It rounds Ezio out even more and lets us see a little more of his motivation.
Over all very excited to play more and that is always a good sign!
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