I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood for several weeks now. I got it during Easter Break. It has been of enormous value for entertainment and distraction. So much so, that I’m almost emotional when I say that it has come to an end.
In this installment of the game, your modern-day self continues to explore the life of one of your ancestors through DNA “memories” that are accessed by sitting in a machine. This time, the ancestor is in Rome. He’s still fighting bad guys bent on world domination. And he still searches for a piece of alien technology that would give the bad guys that power. He must take it from them.
In the end, the ancestor finds the thing and hides it. Then in the game, modern-day you gets out of the machine to find the alien technology. On his way to find it… Well, I shouldn’t tell the end. Spoilers.
What’s nice about this installment of the game, is that after the credits, I found myself back in the ancestor’s memory, so I can continue to explore Rome and do all the little side-quests I didn’t finish. Yay! Thanks, Ubisoft!
…. on the way to find the alien technology, a giant rabbit jumps out from behind the Colosseum and whacks modern-day you with a shovel.
… on the way to find the alien technology, you notice something odd about yourself that leads you to think that you and your ancestors are the aliens.
…on the way to find the alien technology, you are abducted by the aliens themselves and taken to their planet for experimentation and investigation…
…on the way to find the alien technology, you are shot in the back by Buford ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen.