Template:Infobox Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (アサシン クリード ブラザーフッド?) is a third person action-adventure video game in development by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and is scheduled for release on November 16, 2010 for consoles and in the beginning of 2011 for Windows. The game is a direct sequel of Assassin's Creed II and features the same main character, Ezio Auditore. It is the first game in the Assassin's Creed series to feature online multiplayer.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will keep its sandbox style gameplay in an open world based on the city of Rome. Like the previous installments, the gameplay's core mechanics are based on Parkour movements, crowd-blending stealth, assassinations and melee fighting system. However for the first time in the series, the game offers a multiplayer mode alongside 15 hours of single player campaign.
As a Master Assassin, Ezio will have to reorganize his Brotherhood in Rome to fight against the Templars. The player can recruit new members by completing missions around the city, send them to assignments around Europe or call them for support during missions (if they are not already occupied). Tasking the novice Assassins is essential to make them gain experience, and the player will be able to customize their appearance, skills and weapon training by spending the skill points they've earned.
The multiplayer experience will be available on all platforms. The multiplayer beta will be exclusive for PlayStation 3 users and it's slated to begin on October 4, 2010. Three maps have been confirmed for the beta: Rome, Castel Gandolfo and Siena. The players are Templars in training at the Abstergo facility. They use the animi (plural for animus) seen at the beginning of Assassin's Creed II to access memories of Assassins and then to acquire their skills using the "bleeding effect". There will be various game modes.