Additional points can also be earned in multiplayer games for kills that are acrobatic, and your pursuer gets close you can earn points either by escaping and hiding or, if you're feeling especially confident, by humiliating him with an ear clap. Silent kills-those where nobody sees your handiwork-net you the most XP, while visibly running after your target tips him or her off to your presence, giving that player a chance to scurry off and hide.

With a Roman neighborhood full of non-player characters going about their daily lives, you need to blend in with the crowd for maximum effect.

The one mode we played, Wanted, is like deathmatch with a twist: each player is assigned a specific target from among the other players in the match, so there's always someone after you and someone for you to go after. Instead, it's a number of new recruits who have been plugged into Abstergo's magical memory machine in order to play out the great battle between Templars and Assassins. Multiple test subjects are hooked up to the animus in a place far removed from Desmond Miles, the present-day bartender with the unfortunate luck of having been related to two of history's most infamous assassins. Separate from the storyline of the single-player campaign, the multiplayer narrative in Brotherhood is described by Desilets as a sort of 'Meanwhile at Abstergo Industries' scenario. Brotherhood will include a suite of multiplayer modes that let players sneak through 15th-century Rome in a quest to silently kill one another, as well as a single-player story that's a direct continuation of Assassin's Creed II.

And so here we are, the following year, with Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood set to ship this holiday season. He says that after the release of Assassin's Creed II, the inclusion of multiplayer was the most popular suggestion from fans of the game- more than the inclusion of brutal new weapons or exotic new cities. If that sounds like a far-flung idea to you, it certainly doesn't to creative director Patrice Desilets. The next Assassin's Creed game will be the first to introduce multiplayer to the series.

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