History VideoGame / AssassinsCreedBrotherhood

-> '''Ezio:''' That a true leader empowers the people he rules.

[[caption-width-right:320:The liberation of Roma has begun!]]

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-> '''Ezio:''' ''Che nessuno ricordi il tuo nome.'' (May no one remember your name.) ''Requiescat in pace.'' (Rest in peace.)

->'''Ezio:''' What about the city's thieves? Do they have a guild?
->'''Machiavelli:''' Yes, but they refuse to talk to us. I don't know why.
->''(Ezio turns to leave)''
->'''Machiavelli:''' What are you going to do?
->'''Ezio:''' Make some friends.

** It's worth noting that Ezio is probably [[FridgeHorror just trying a quicker and simpler solution]] to get rid of the [[WhatMeasureIsAMook literal dead-weight]] stuck on the end of his weapon and get back to fighting off {{faceless goons}}.

** Well, there's an unarmed finisher that is a worthy successor to the knee stomp. It involves Ezio stepping on his opponents foot, causing them to hop on one leg, and then kicking them in their knee, snapping it at a near 90 degree angle.
** Most of Ezio's new unarmed finishers seem to be attempting to outdo Altaïr. Of note is the one where Ezio approaches a guard from behind, punches him in the kidneys, then turns around and breaks the guard's neck over his own back. It has to be seen to be believed.
*** It's also a NonLethalKO. ''Somehow.''
** A particularly rare case seems to only happen on sloped surfaces, such as rooftops. At the end of his one-two punch combo, Ezio will ''chokeslam'' the hapless guard for the TKO.

** The title for one of the Assassination Contracts "Brutes and Brutality" seems to be a ShoutOut to the episode naming conventions for [[{{Blackadder}} Blackadder the Third]].
*** Which in tunr is a ShoutOut to JaneAusten.

* {{Crew of One}}: Both used and averted with Leonardo's war machines:

*** They do have a pretty hard time sticking to the road at some points. Can't really blame them though, poor things must have been terrified by all the noise the Machine Gun was making.

** Damned if he did, damned if he didn't. If Ezio had decided to "do ''[=AC2=]'' right," his answer would have been [[spoiler:*stab*]] "''Nothing'' is true, ''everything'' is permitted. [[spoiler:Requiescat in Pace]]."
*** ...and then toss him over the wall. According to TheOtherWiki, the real Cesare Borgia got stabbed and then either fell or got thrown off the castle wall.

* GameBreakingBug: Only less so, because of how rare it happens. When it does, it's horrible. During combat, Ezio will sometimes randomly shoot his hidden gun at the nearest target. Sometimes, he'll shoot civilians - standing behind the guard, somewhere off to the left, way off where you can't see them...If he does it enough, you get desynchronized, which is annoying in big battles. Luckily, most civilians are smart enough to run away.
** It's not a bug. It occurs when you hold down the Attack button when chaining kills instead of just tapping it. It occurs with any one-handed weapon that has a secondary weapon, so the best solution is to either move Ezio (and thus the guards) away from civilians or to avoid holding down the attack button when near civilians.
** If you kill a pickpocket or Borgia messenger while he's on a small ledge, the body will remain there and you cannot loot it, meaning that a potentially valuable item is lost to you.
** It's possible to "lose" a thrown Heavy Weapon or a Polearm in the geometry of the game objects (i.e. a wall) and be unable to pick it back up.
** There have been reports that one can collect more than the necessary amount of items/kills/etc. to complete a Guild Challenge but not have it register, or that the rewards for rising in rank after completing the Challenges do not appear... though the benefits may appear without the notification of what they are.
** It's also been noticed that sometimes the integration with the ''Project Legacy'' Facebook game (bonus florins for owning landmarks, the Florentine and Venetian Capes from combining the Auditore Trail mnemonic, and bonus EXP for completing Contract memories in ''Project Legacy'' -- which themselves are unlocked by progress in ''Brotherhood'') is sometimes delayed, such as taking several days to be credited.
** It's been noticed that the game is prone to suddenly suffer sudden FPS drop or outright freeze for a second, which can be ''extremely'' inconvenient during dire circumstances.
** Some have had the game take Parachutes away from Ezio when entering missions or side quests like the Lairs of Romulus -- not losing the ability to use them, but rather Ezio having ''zero'' Parachutes in his Inventory upon leaving that memory.
** When assassinating a guard, there is a very rare bug that can cause Ezio to begin floating up into the sky. He will simply rise at a very slow pace with no signs of stopping. It gives a good view of Rome, but there's really no way to get down short of leaving the Animus, as the player loses all control at the moment it happens.

*** It's actually possible to reach that Lair of Romulus entrance ''without'' repairing the aqueduct, but you can't access that Lair of Romulus memory until sometime during Sequence 6 or later, and if you somehow fall out of the entrance alcove, it's a long way up to try to get back in -- repairing that particular aqueduct raises the water level next to the alcove so that it's a lot easier to get back into.

** Ezio can kill people with a ''broom''. The achievement for actually killing someone with it is called "Spring Cleaning".
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOp7tVexx90&list=FLQqRcYk5CkKReN7L4EpI2mQ&index=19 It's hilarious.]]

* MoneySpider: Guards now carry more stuff on their person for looting, as opposed to just cash in ''AC2''.

** Given [[CurbStompBattle the]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome situation]] of the final boss battle in ''[=AC2=]'', this kind of justified.

** The Hidden Gun is also more ''far'' useful than it used to be due to his having had over a decade to practice with it, and somehow modifying it (before going to infiltrate the Vatican at the end of 1499 in ''[=AC2=]'', since he himself didn't probably have time to do so between his return to Monteriggioni and the next morning's siege) to be able to fire using his left wrist alone.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My]] [[spoiler:Uncle]]: Part of Ezio's conflict with the younger Cesare, is because Cesare [[spoiler:killed Mario]].

** It's revealed in ''Project Legacy'' that some of them were already-inducted apprentices who were transferred over to his tutelage after the death of [[spoiler:Perotto Calderon, an Assassin who turned against his Brothers]].

* RedHerringMole: [[spoiler:La Volpe is suspicious of Machiavelli to begin with, and several unfortunate incidents indeed indicate that Machiavelli is liekly to be feeding information to the Borgia.]]

** These may all be cases of TruthInTelevision. Ezio is an experienced fighter with special training, why should a fat old man prove much physical challenge? The only one that makes less than complete sense is Ezio v. Cesare, as Cesare is in his physical prime and an experienced warrior himself. The truth is that people are fragile and it makes perfect sense for these fights to be [[CurbStompBattle totally one sided]] when you're talking about anyone, even an above average fighter, taking on an Assassin, someone in peak physical condition with far more fighting experience and unorthodox techniques and weapons. There is no reason that these people should be climactic boss battles.

* BattleCouple: Bartolomeo and her wife Pantasilea.

* StealthPun: The heralds have several of these. "Reminder! Do not drink the waters of the Chevre south of the Campo Marzio. The recent outbreak of syphilis has been linked to this [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean ill-advised practice]]."

* AwesomeButImpractical: [[RainOfArrows Arrow]] [[SmartBomb Storm]]. Once you have six Assassins in your Brotherhood, you can wipe out every guard in sight by holding down the Call Assassins button. Downside? Just tapping the button will summon some of those Assassins to the field in person, where they be just a bit slower in wiping out the guards - and the "cooldown" for Calls is three times faster than if you used an Arrow Storm - even if you expended the meter. It's still pretty useful to get perfect synchronization sometimes (for example, when you need to finish the mission without taking any damage and there's 15+ enemies ready to eviscerate you), but you don't have much control over which specific targets are hit other than whoever you targeted.

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** TheSmartGuy: Machiavelli

* FrenchJerk: Octavien de Valois is exceedingly condescending towards the Italians and seems to believe that he'll eventually conquer all of Italy... [[spoiler:or so Cesare lets him think]].

* OlderIsBetter: Brutus' Armor and Dagger are better than the modern stuff.

** TheSmartGuy: Machiavelli

* FrenchJerk: Octavien de Valois is exceedingly condescending towards the Italians and seems to believe that he'll eventually conquer all of Italy... [[spoiler:or so Cesare lets him think]].

* NotWorthKilling: Remember when Ezio ''[[WhatAnIdiot spared]]'' [[spoiler:Rodrigo Borgia]]? That turns out to have been a mistake in hindsight, although in the end Rodrigo is not the real threat.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Your horse when summoned. The Assassin recruits do this as well if there's no obvious hiding spot for them to have emerged from.

* OlderIsBetter: Brutus' Armor and Dagger are better than the modern stuff.

* NotWorthKilling: Remember when Ezio ''[[WhatAnIdiot spared]]'' [[spoiler:Rodrigo Borgia]]? Yeah, he's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kinda regretting that now]]. Looks like he's not gonna repeat ''that'' mistake.
** Though he does explain it to [[spoiler:Machiavelli]] later on that killing [[spoiler:Rodrigo]] still wouldn't have put an end to the Templar threat – better to cut away at their power, than simply kill one man. Doesn't make the decision any less foolish in hindsight, but it ''does'' make sense (even as a retroactive explanation).
*** Actually, [[FridgeBrilliance it makes even more sense than that]]. Killing the [[spoiler:[[ThePope POPE]]]] before getting people on their side would have made him into a martyr, thus preserving his image in the public eye no matter how evil he was.
*** Also, the attack on Monteriggioni was ordered by Cesare, ''not'' Rodrigo, who later criticized him for it. Rodrigo himself has been a lot less active since then, especially with [[LaserGuidedKarma karma biting him back]]. In the end, [[spoiler:Cesare beats Ezio to the kill.]]

* OffscreenTeleportation: Done when you call your horse.
** And your Assassin recruits, when they're not conveniently hiding in the nearest hiding spot.
*** Not always offscreen. Sometimes, if there's nowhere else to put them, they (Recruits, at least) can and will spawn right in front of you, complete with Animus-whiteness-glitchiness before giving them their models.

*** [[FridgeHorror and how quickly the call ends when Mr. Jameson's young son is heard answering the door.]]