Ubisoft has scrapped its controversial always-on DRM system for the PC edition of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.
Website vg247 quotes the publisher as saying, “Ubisoft confirms that the PC version of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, after an initial login, will be playable offline in single-player mode.”
Ubisoft launched the DRM scheme last year with the release of Settlers 7 but ditched it for the release of strategy title RUSE.
Ubisoft has announced a new downloadable content pack for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, called The Da Vinci Disappearance.
The pack will include new singleplayer content, a new multiplayer map, new characters and more.
Following the fall of the Borgia, Ezio’s ally Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by an underground transformative cult called Hermeticists. The master assassin must pick up his trail and recover stolen paintings to track down the master artisan. Along the way he’ll discover two new locations and two new gameplay features.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has taken home the Writers Guild of America award for Best Videogame Writing.
Shows what we know: Before scoring Brotherhood 9/10, we warned, “Ezio’s character doesn’t develop in any consequential way and there’s a woeful lack of intrigue to the historical plot.”
In our defence however, Brotherhood was only in competition with Fallout: New Vegas, God of War III, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Singularity, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II.
Ubisoft has today announced the first downloadable content pack for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, called the Animus Project 1.0.
The DLC will bring with it a new multiplayer game mode and a new multiplayer map.
Advanced Alliance will see three teams of two go head to head (to head) as they seek out their targets and try to avoid detection.
Ubisoft has announced that it will release a new Assassin’s Creed in 2011, backpedalling on suggestions that the franchise would be rested this year.
The news comes via an investor’s call in which CEO Yves Gillemot said, “There will be something around Assassin's [next year]. That's all we can say," (via Eurogamer).
As to the game’s content, CFO Alain Martinez said nothing would be discussed before the new year: “Maybe after Christmas in January we'll be able to talk about what kind of product we have.”
The collective interest of the Assassin's Creed fanbase has been piqued ever since the inclusion of muiltiplayer was first announced for Brotherhood. Just how could this work in a game world which is so obviously solo-oriented?
After time with the beta, and the LAN demo at Armageddon this weekend past, it's clear that Ubisoft have done it justice.
The Armageddon demo was the same one previously shown at E3, and the beta has some new features and a slightly cleaner interface. The biggest difference visually is that the button prompts are now colour-coded, which will be important to players with Standard Definition TVs.
Live and breathe as Ezio, a legendary Master Assassin, in his enduring struggle against the powerful Templar Order. He must journey into Italy’s greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy.
Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood who will rally to his side. Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies.
And for the first time, introducing a never-before-seen multiplayer layer that allows you to choose from a wide range of unique characters, each with their own signature weapons and assassination techniques, and match your skills against other players from around the world.
It’s time to join the Brotherhood.
Features:
- MASTER THE POSSIBILITIES - As Ezio, a legendary Master Assassin, experience over 15 hours of single-player gameplay set in the living, breathing, unpredictable city of Rome.
- LEAD A LEGENDARY BROTHERHOOD - Recruit and train promising young Assassins. Deploy them across the city as you see fit, or call upon them to aid you in your quests.
- EXPERIENCE A RICH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY - Collaborate with real historical characters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza.
- WIN THE HEART OF A CITY - Use your hard-won currency to revitalize the crumbling capital city. Rally the citizens to your cause and unlock extra factions and missions.
- DEPLOY SECRET WEAPONS - Swiftly eliminate your enemies using tools such as poison darts, parachutes, double hidden blades, hidden guns, and an advanced flying machine at your disposal.
- MEMORABLE MULTIPLAYER - Choose from multiple authentic character classes, each with their own signature weapons and killing moves. With richly-detailed maps and a wide variety of unique multiplayer modes, you’ll never fight the same way twice.
