They'd have been a little more impressive, though, without the game's few irksome graphical glitches-like pop-ins that once warped a hostile guard directly in front of me while I was being sneaky.Īside from the story missions, Brotherhood builds on AC2's huge list of optional things to do: violently taking over enemy territory, recruiting and managing ally assassins, investing in property-I got happily lost in its time-sink vortex for hours, and more hours still were spent amusing myself by free-running through Rome and beating up guards for no reason. The more I played, though, the more impressive (and less unintentionally amusing) my acrobatics became. Early in the game I was tasked with chasing down and tackling a pickpocket, so I sprinted into a crowd, fell over, jumped into a pile of hay, and stuck my hidden blade through the throat of a woman carrying her groceries. The free-running and combat do take effort to master.
