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Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta details revealed

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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Courtesan Ubisoft have revealed more details about the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta.

Those PlayStation 3 owners who pre-ordered Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – be it standard, Auditore or Codex edition – will be able to access the multiplayer beta from October 4th.

The Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta is exclusive to the PlayStation 3

The beta will give PlayStation 3 owners a taste of what to expect from The Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer mode, allowing them to play as nine different characters. The characters include a doctor, an executioner, a priest and a courtesan which all offer alternative and unique ways for players to kill each other in the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta.

Up to eight Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood players will be able to simultaneously use new ways to assassinate their targets in two different modes:

Wanted – challenges Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood players to get the higher score by killing their assigned targets and escaping their hunters in clever ways.

Alliance – allows Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood players to compete cooperatively in teams of two, fulfil contracts and confuse enemies in tandem.

Both multiplayer modes take place different maps located in Rome and Castel Gandolfo, both new locations for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.

The bad news for PC gamers is that Ubisoft have confirmed that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will be delayed and won’t be on that particular system until the first quarter of next year. The PC version was originally scheduled to for release alongside its console brothers.

Whether you have an Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta key or not, you can get yourself in the mood for some Renaissance era action by watching the first Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood developer diary.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is scheduled for release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 19th this year

So Train2Game, has anyone pre-ordered Assassins Creed: Brotherhood? If so, how much are you looking forward to the multiplayer beta? Perhaps you’re a PC gamer, if so let us know what you think about the delay.

You can leave your thoughts on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood here on the Train2Game blog, or on the Train2Game forum.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood First Developer Diary

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Ubisoft have released the first of a series of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood developer diaries. In this first one titled Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood ‘The Birth’; the Ubisoft team explain the history behind the story which may be useful for those not familiar with Assassin’s Creed or Assassin’s Creed 2.

The video also tells us a bit about new features in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood including the recruitment system, a little bit about multiplayer and the fact that the game starts exactly where Assassin’s Creed 2 left off. You can check out the first Assassins’ Creed: Brotherhood Developer Diary below.


Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood game is scheduled for release in Europe on November 19th. Despite this being just one year after the release of Assassin’s Creed 2, Ubisoft are keen to stress that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood isn’t a rushed sequel and is a full part of their planned story.

So Train2Game, What do you think of the Assassin’s Creed Developer Diary? Are you a fan of the franchise and if so, are you looking forward to Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood? And how important do you feel pre-planning a storyline across multiple games is for franchise titles?

You can leave your comments about Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood here or on the Train2Game forum.

Sony E3 Press Conference – The key announcements

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Like  Microsoft’s presentation before it, Sony’s press conference not only saw key titles get release dates, but also full details on their own motion controller – the PlayStation Move.

In surprising – but welcome on this side of the Atlantic – twist, the PlayStation Move will be available in Europe on September 15th this year, four days before it’s released in the United States. The motion controller and PlayStation eye will be available in a bundle for €59.99 – a price in pounds sterling is yet to be revealed, but it’ll be much lower in cost than Microsoft’s Kinect.

Speaking at the E3 press conference, Sony President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America Jack Tretton, added that 40 developers are currently working on Move titles. Hopefully some of these will be innovative games, and the type that Train2Game students – be they a Games Designer, Games Developer, or Games Artist & Animator – would be proud to work on.

In non-Move related news, several of the PlayStation 3’s flag ship titles we’re given release dates including the long awaited – and long delayed lest we forget! – Gran Turismo 5. The racer will be available in the USA from Novemer 2nd with a trailer revealing the Top Gear test track as one of the circuits. Jack Tretton also revealed that the game will be fully 3D compatible.

In other PlayStation 3 games news, Killzone 3 will be released in February 2011 – slightly earlier than thought, while it was announced there will be PS3 exclusive content for Assassin’s Creed’s Brotherhood, Medal of Honour and Dead Space 2. There were also new details about the much anticipated Little Big Planet 2.

However, perhaps the biggest surprise of the show so far, was that Valve’s Gabe Newell himself appeared on stage to announce that Portal 2 will be coming to the PlayStation 3. It’ll be connected to Valve’s powerful Steamworks service with the PlayStation 3 being the only system doing so. It represents a huge turnaround for Gabe Newell – previously one of Sony’s consoles biggest critics. While on stage he joked “I’d like to thank everyone at Sony for their hospitality and not repeatedly punching me in the face.”

So, that’s a quick round up of Sony’s E3 Press Conference? Are you impressed? If so what are you looking forward to? As usual, leave your comments here or on the Train2Game forum.