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Dear Master of Assassins...
...actually, I'm pretty sure I'm the Master of Assassins these days.
Yup, had my little talk with the alien space princess who was just using me to encode memories into my DNA to be relived later by a descendant of mine, but whatever. I retrieved the magical doohickey and got ready to settle down and the Borgia get all up in my cowl.
So it's back to Rome to put down the Borgia and rebuild the city.
No seriously, the Borgia have let this town go to hell in a hand basket. Luckily, I'm pretty well versed in urban renewal and small business management, so everywhere I go I open up all sorts of legitimate operations to give me a steady flow of ready and I'm fixing up the aqueducts to keep a flow of water going. I'm even buying up ancient Roman landmarks just for the tourism florins (although I always couch it as "historic preservation"). These days I just perch on a roof and the money comes flooding in.
Of course, most of the town is living the shadow of these Borgia towers so I gotta go in there, whack the guy in charge and then burn down the tower. You know how in a lot of these situations, you lose all your special moves and high-class gear and you have to start all over like a punk-ass noob? I did have some losses, but I managed to keep my mad combat skills and some of my special gear -- including the concealed pistol that makes taking down the local Borgia capos a piece of cake.
But why bother getting your hands dirty when you can send in the minions? Yeah, as I clear out the towers and clean up the town, I come across people in a spot of trouble. I save them and they're so grateful, they ask to join up and become an assassin like me. So they follow me discreetly all over town and when I see some guards who need removing, I just whistle and they drop down like the fist of God and kill them all while I stroll past humming a jaunty tune. When I don't need them to shiv the guards, I can send them off on missions all over Europe. It makes me some bank and it makes them better assassins. Right now I've got a full roster of assassins (mostly lady assassins cause I always loved Charlie's Angels), and they're just about all maxed out. My posse is the baddest.
So yeah, life as a Master Assassin? It's the best!
Ciao
Ezio
[Assassin's Creed Brotherhood -- I really love this series. I haven't even really gotten into the multiplayer parts of it yet. The only downside is that the map isn't as clear as it could be on what locations have/haven't been rebuilt yet and the fast travel system (via ancient Roman tunnels) is bit weak, but overall this game is great. The "present day" story gets a big jolt forward and I think the next installment is really going to focus more on that then ancestor memories. A heck of a lot of fun.]
Yup, had my little talk with the alien space princess who was just using me to encode memories into my DNA to be relived later by a descendant of mine, but whatever. I retrieved the magical doohickey and got ready to settle down and the Borgia get all up in my cowl.
So it's back to Rome to put down the Borgia and rebuild the city.
No seriously, the Borgia have let this town go to hell in a hand basket. Luckily, I'm pretty well versed in urban renewal and small business management, so everywhere I go I open up all sorts of legitimate operations to give me a steady flow of ready and I'm fixing up the aqueducts to keep a flow of water going. I'm even buying up ancient Roman landmarks just for the tourism florins (although I always couch it as "historic preservation"). These days I just perch on a roof and the money comes flooding in.
Of course, most of the town is living the shadow of these Borgia towers so I gotta go in there, whack the guy in charge and then burn down the tower. You know how in a lot of these situations, you lose all your special moves and high-class gear and you have to start all over like a punk-ass noob? I did have some losses, but I managed to keep my mad combat skills and some of my special gear -- including the concealed pistol that makes taking down the local Borgia capos a piece of cake.
But why bother getting your hands dirty when you can send in the minions? Yeah, as I clear out the towers and clean up the town, I come across people in a spot of trouble. I save them and they're so grateful, they ask to join up and become an assassin like me. So they follow me discreetly all over town and when I see some guards who need removing, I just whistle and they drop down like the fist of God and kill them all while I stroll past humming a jaunty tune. When I don't need them to shiv the guards, I can send them off on missions all over Europe. It makes me some bank and it makes them better assassins. Right now I've got a full roster of assassins (mostly lady assassins cause I always loved Charlie's Angels), and they're just about all maxed out. My posse is the baddest.
So yeah, life as a Master Assassin? It's the best!
Ciao
Ezio
[Assassin's Creed Brotherhood -- I really love this series. I haven't even really gotten into the multiplayer parts of it yet. The only downside is that the map isn't as clear as it could be on what locations have/haven't been rebuilt yet and the fast travel system (via ancient Roman tunnels) is bit weak, but overall this game is great. The "present day" story gets a big jolt forward and I think the next installment is really going to focus more on that then ancestor memories. A heck of a lot of fun.]