14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft surprised everyone when, hot on the heels of the launch of Assassin's Creed 2, announced that it planned to publish a more multiplayer focus installment in the series before the end of 2010. But it seems that after the tour de force that the launch of Brotherhood will be the developers who are working on the franchise in Montreal will take a break, with no game planned for 2011.
Jean-Fancois Boivin, who is the associate producer working on Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, has told Eurogamer that the series will not be making an appearance during 2011. He said that, “Honestly, I think for the benefit of everybody - and business can come back and override everything I say because at the end of the day it's about selling games - I believe that this license needs a breather.” He explained “You can't plough a field every year. Once every three years -- or once every something -- you have to let it breathe. You have to let the minerals back in. I think it's the same thing with any license, really.”
Boivin says that the team working on the game needs the time off in order to explore their ideas and create a gaming experience that is as true to the spirit of Assassin's Creed as possible, avoiding the problems of music games that launch on an annual basis and frequently offer little innovation from one installment to the next. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood moves the action to the streets of Rome and keeps the same time frame as the second game in the series. The game will allow Ezio, the main character, to control other assassins and send them to perform missions for him, which will control the progress of the single player adventure, which is set to take about 15 hours to complete. The multiplayer mode will allow players to kill each stalk, hunt and kill each other while inhabiting the bodies of certain Assassin characters.