14 DAY TRIAL // Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the latest installment in Ubisoft's blockbuster franchise, will have a very special unlockable playable character, in the form of Raiden, the bionic ninja/samurai from Konami's hugely successful Metal Gear Solid franchise.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is shaping up to be Ubisoft's biggest title of the year, breaking the pre-order record for the French company.
As such, Ubisoft is pulling out all the stops to make sure that players will hold onto Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
We've already seen the special multiplayer mode that the game will have, allowing players to assassinate one another around Italy's Rome during the Renaissance, but now it seems that unlockable characters will also play a special part in the new game.
According to an anonymous tipster, it seems that one of the unlockable player skins in Brotherhood will be that of bionic ninja Raiden, previously seen in Konami's popular Metal Gear Solid series.
According to the same tipster, the Raiden skin can be unlocked once players complete the new training mode in the game's Animus system, which pretty much sounds like an arena mode with specific challenges.
Either way, the possibility of going through Rome during the Renaissance as a futuristic bionic ninja like Raiden sounds extremely good.
This isn't the first time Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed and Konami's Metal Gear Solid franchises meet, as in the previous Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots game, if you achieved more than 50 knife kills, 50 close quarter grabs and triggered less than 25 alerts, you could unlock a special outfit for main character Solid Snake, which dressed him up as Assassin's Creed 1 hero Altair.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is set to appear on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 16, and on the PC at a later time.
Raiden will be the main hero of a new MGS game, called Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which will be out next year.