It’s less than a few days away from launch, but there are still questions remaining about what kind of game Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will be. While the developers have shown fans what kind of story the game will tell, and the impact that players will have on the future of Rome, we have yet to know just how the game will feel. Hopefully some of those questions will be answered now that video of the first 30 minutes of the campaign has made its way online.
It goes without saying that if you plan to avoid spoilers, it would be best to wait and see the opening of the game on launch day.
But for those who can’t wait any longer, or who simply care more about killing templars than having plot twists revealed, the video gives a good glimpse of the similarities Brotherhood shares with Assassin’s Creed 2.
The developers at Ubisoft had already stated that the new game would begin where AC2 left off, and they mean exactly that. After the climactic battle against Rodrigo Borgia in the Vatican at the end of AC2, the game’s protagonist Ezio sat idly by as the goddess Minerva communicated directly to Desmond, Ezio’s real-world counterpart.
It is at this point that we return to Ezio, and the story of Brotherhood begins:
