Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Interrogation missions have Ezio beat targets to force information out of them.
Moderate profanity in English and untranslated Italian insults during combat and story scenes.
Sword, hidden-blade, crossbow and early-firearm combat against human guards and soldiers, with blood on hits but no dismemberment or gore.
Alcohol appears in the world through taverns and drunken mercenaries the player recruits.
Story centers on political assassination, corruption, betrayal and the Borgia family's murders and abuses of power.
The player, as an assassin, kills targets, pickpockets, and steals throughout a stealth-and-combat campaign.
Courtesans work openly in the world as a hireable faction the player pays to distract and lure guards.
Innuendo and flirtation, references to Ezio's liaisons, and recruitable courtesans whose dialogue and role carry sexual implication.
Some courtesan characters wear low-cut, revealing period attire; no actual nudity.
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What it is
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an open-world action-adventure set in Renaissance Rome, where the player controls master assassin Ezio Auditore as he dismantles the powerful Borgia family and rebuilds a guild of assassins. Play involves parkour across the city, stealth, and counter-based combat using swords, crossbows, poison, and a wrist-mounted hidden blade to kill guards and assassinate targets. Hits draw blood but the game avoids gore or dismemberment. It contains moderate profanity, alcohol in taverns, innuendo and recruitable courtesans, interrogation by force, and heavy themes of political murder and betrayal. An optional online multiplayer mode pits players against strangers in matchmade stalking matches, with no voice or text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames Ezio's killings as justice against a corrupt, tyrannical regime, presenting assassination and theft as tools of a righteous brotherhood fighting to free Rome; violence is stylized and rewarded with upgrades, while the courtesans and thieves are treated as allies rather than moralized about.
Details
- Developer
- Ubisoft Montreal
- Publisher
- Ubisoft
- Released
- Mar 22, 2011
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