Ubi soft have just announced a truck load of information on the PC version of their critically acclaimed game, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The game will be available in retail stores and online for digital downloads on March 18th.

The game will come in four different editions-

STANDARD EDITION (RETAIL AND DIGITAL)

Main game + Abstergo Project Update 1.0 and 2.0 and The Da Vinci Disappearance

CODEX EDITION:

This Limited and Exclusive Collector’s Edition of Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood will include a beautiful and detailed Renaissance style chest containing:

o    Main game + Abstergo Project Update 1.0 and 2.0 and The Da Vinci Disappearance

o    The Original Codex written by the hand of Altaïr: a quality 60 pages book revealing all the history of the Assassins and presenting the artworks of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.

o    A detailed map of ROME

o    Multiplayer Characters Collectible Cards: a set of trade cards presenting all the characters of Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood Multiplayer, their kill moves and biography

o    Assassin’s Creed^® Lineage DVD: discover the story of Giovanni Auditore, Ezio’s father, by watching this three episodes short movie.

o    An exclusive Bonus DVD containing the Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood original soundtrack, galleries…

o    Exclusive unlockable content:

• One Multiplayer Character: The Harlequin, a deadly assassin lying behind a gaudy costume and a twisted smiling mask
• One Multiplayer Character: The Officer, a stealthy assassin who can assassinate his targets with a swift and powerful attack
• One exclusive single player indoor map: The Trajan Market
• One exclusive single player outdoor map:  The Aqueducts map
• Ezio “Drachen Armor”

SPECIAL EDITION

This Special Edition comes in an exclusive Cold Foil Packaging and contains:

o    Main game + Abstergo Project Update 1.0 and 2.0 and The Da Vinci Disappearance

o    Exclusive unlockable content:

• One Multiplayer Character: The Officer, a stealthy assassin who can assassinate his targets with a swift and powerful attack
• One exclusive single player indoor map: The Trajan Market

DIGITAL DELUXE EDITION

• Main game + Abstergo Project Update 1.0 and 2.0 and The Da Vinci Disappearance

o    Assassin’s Creed^® Lineage: discover the story of Giovanni Auditore, Ezio’s father, by watching this three episodes short movie.

o    Exclusive additional content featuring the Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood original soundtrack, galleries, Making-of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood…

o    Exclusive unlockable content:

• One Multiplayer Character: The Harlequin, a deadly assassin lying behind a gaudy costume and a twisted smiling mask
• One Multiplayer Character: The Officer, a stealthy assassin who can assassinate his targets with a swift and powerful attack
• One exclusive single player indoor map: The Trajan Market
• One exclusive single player outdoor map:  The Aqueducts map
• Ezio “Drachen Armor”

Here are the system requirements exactly as given out by Ubi Soft.

Minimum Configuration:

SUPPORTED OS: Windows® XP (32 or 64 bit) /Windows Vista®(32 or 64 bit)/Windows 7® (32 or 64 bit)

Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ

RAM: 1.5 GB  Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® – Windows 7®

Video Card: 256 MB DirectX®  9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)

Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0

DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive

Hard Drive Space: 8 GB

Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional gamepad

* This product does not support Windows® 98/ME/2000/NT

Recommended Configuration:

Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better

Video Card: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700  or better

Sound: 5.1 sound card

Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)

Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:

ATI® RADEON®  X1950, HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series

NVIDIA GeForce® 7/8/9/100/200 series

Stay tuned for more info.

A new DLC pack for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has been released, and the trailer for it is given above. The DLC gives us access to a new map, named Mont St-Michel, and a new mode, called Advanced Alliance, and both of these will be available for the multiplayer.

The trailer shows some gameplay footage of this new map and mode.

The DLC pack is already available for download on PSN and Xbox Live, and it’s for free.th

Check out the video above, it shows how Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood players can play with a Raiden outfit, and adding a very MGS-y feel to the experience. Apparently, you have to do some specific stuff in the tutorials to unlock the outfit.

We certainly loved Brotherhood, Raiden or no Raiden. We recently reviewed it, and gave it a whomping 9.5/10.

The game certainly has been selling very well. It sold 1.14 million units in its first month, in US alone.

Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed game has sold 1 million units in UK alone, confirmed the publisher.

This takes the franchises lifetime sells to over 20 million units and if all goes by plan, it will be reaching 30 million by end of next year.

The figures were confirmed by, Geoffroy Sardin, in a interview withMCV:

“If you compare [the 1m in a week] with last year’s ACII sales this is a big jump – so it’s a great achievement.

“It’s the best launch in the history of Ubisoft’s European sales, and our best-selling launch title ever.”

He also stated that more than 60% of ACB players have also tried out the game’s multiplayer mode, which is a first for the series.

He also reconfirmed, studio boss’s Yves Guillemot’s earlier comments that a new Assassin’s Creed game will be releasing in 2012.

“Yes, Yves mentioned it last week in our financials – and more details will be forthcoming. But what I can say is that next year we will have another big Assassin’s Creed game.”

ACB is out now for PS3 and Xbox 360. A PC version is also planned but has not release date yet.

This “tutorial” video was released yesterday for the recently released Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The video shows the cool new training grounds for the game, which teach you everything from the combat to the platforming, and help you in the game in more ways than one.

We will have a review up soon.

Ubisoft have sent out a mail, detailing their animated short story in build up for their upcoming game, Brotherhood, Ascendance. The first thing they is that the Assassin’s Creed franchise has now gloabally sold 19 million units- okay, that’s a lot.

Ubi say Ascendance will close the interim between AC2 and Brotherhood and how Ezio is trying to (SPOILER) take the papal throne away from the Borgia family. (SPOILERS END).

It can be found on Live, PSN and other digital outlets.

Here’s some information on the short movie:

“Assassin’s Creed Ascendance is a short animated story developed by Ubisoft Montreal. It bridges the narrative gap between Assassin’s Creed II and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Assassin’s Creed Ascendance follows Assassin Ezio Auditore as he struggles to remove the treacherous Borgia family from their papal throne. Ezio will learn the brutal truth behind Ceasare Borgia’s rise to power to control Italy. Assassin’s Creed Ascendance will be available on PlayStation^®Store, Xbox LIVE^® for the Xbox 360^®, and other digital channels.

The rich universe of the Assassin’s Creed franchise allows artists from other media to create extensions of the original Assassin’s Creed storyline beyond video games. In addition to Assassin’s Creed Ascendance, fans will be able to immerse themselves even further into the Assassin’s Creed world with the release of an Assassin’s Creed comic book series, figurines and the recently launched Assassin’s Creed Project Legacy Facebook^® game.

Also available in the Assassin’s Creed universe:

– Assassin’s Creed The Fall comic book series, published by DC Comics, is a story illustrated and written in English by award-winning artists Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. The first of three issues will be released in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

– Assassin’s Creed Aquilus, published by les Deux Royaumes, is the second comic book illustrated by Defali and written in French by Corbeyrand. The comic book will be available in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec.

– A new limited edition statue of Assassin’s Creed Master Assassin Ezio Auditore Da Firenze will be available in Europe and Australia. A variety of Assassin’s Creed Ezio collectible figurines will also be available worldwide via online retailers.

– The Assassin’s Creed Project Legacy game on Facebook^® platform is a social role-playing game that serves as the companion to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood.”

And here is some information on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood by Ubi themselves:

“The critically acclaimed single-player experience of Assassin’s Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns for an epic struggle against the powerful Templar Order. Offering more single-player gameplay than ever before, players now play as a legendary Master Assassin, and journey into Italy’s greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy. For the first time, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood offers never-before-seen multiplayer, awarded “Best Online Multiplayer Game,” by the prestigious Game Critics organization at the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo. The multiplayer suite, coupled with an extensive single-player campaign makes Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood not only the best Assassin’s experience to date, but the best value as well.”

Stay tuned, we will have a lot more on Brotherhood soon.

The new Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Multiplayer Launch trailer is simply amazing. Not only does it show off Ubi’s presentational skills, it has also got us excited about Brotherhood’s much hyped multiplayer component. Can’t wait.

Stay tuned, we will have more on Brotherhood, and a review, soon.

Ubisoft have released a new interactive campaign videos for their looming large release, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The video, soon after beginning, will prompt you to man the cannons. It doesn’t really let you do that though. After manning the cannons, the video will promp you to fight the enemies. Again, you’ll just another video, with another prompt and so on, but it still is really interesting, and has got us more excited for the game.

Brotherhood has already been released in the US, and will be releasing in Europe on the 19th. Expect to see our review soon.

Ubisoft’s released the multiplayer launch trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood on the eve of its US release.

The video gives you a preview of the game’s MP modes and playable classes and maps.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood launches today in US and later this week (Friday) in UK.

This is the first Assassin’s Creed game to feature a multiplayer component.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the highly awaited spin-off of the very successful Assassin’s Creed franchise has been getting good reviews till now. Earlier this week, gaming magazine T3 gave the game a 5/5, calling it the “best Creed ever.” Later, Italian gaming magazine Play Generation gave the game a score of 92%.

The guys from the gaming mag PSM3 have given Brotherhood the very same score- 92/100. They say that while the game might not be as innovative as Assassin’s Creed II, “it improves on every aspect of the Assassin’s Creed formula” and it also “broadens the series” in a lot of ways.

On the city of Rome, the place where the game is set it, PSM3 says: “It’s a glorious, rich city with a staggering amount of side-missions, secrets and hidden stuff to sniff out.” They feel its the real star of the game, more so even than the protagonist, Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Keep an eye on GamingBolt, we will have our review up very soon.