Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is an upcoming direct sequel of 2009's awardwinning Assassin's Creed II. Featuring Ezio once again, the game pictures him, now a legendary master assassin, leading a brotherhood of his making into a hunt for Templars. This is also the first game of the series to include a multiplayer mode of any kind.

Desmond Miles will appear in this project, as his voice actor Nolan North has admitted to be working on a new unnamed Assassin's Creed game.

Story
Ezio Auditore da Firenze, now a legendary master assassin, continued his hunt for Templars and therefore went to Rome, the headquarters of the Templar order. Together with the other members of the Assassin order, he will take out the remnants of the Italian Templars.

Characters
Below is a list of known characters to appear in-game;

Assassins
 * Ezio Auditore da Firenze
 * Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

Knights Templar
 * Rodrigo Borgia
 * Cesare Borgia

Allies
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Caterina Sforza

Multiplayer characters
 * The Doctor
 * The Courtesan
 * The Executioner
 * The Nobleman
 * The Priest
 * The Prowler
 * The Harlequin

Weapons

 * Singleplayer
 * Crossbow
 * Multiplayer
 * Axe - used by the Executioner.
 * Fan - used by the Courtesan.
 * Syringe - used by the Doctor.
 * Dagger - used by the Priest.
 * Switchblade - used by the Prowler.
 * Claw - used by the Nobleman.

Multiplayer
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is the first Assassin's Creed game to feature a multiplayer mode. The players are Templars in training at the Abstergo facility. They use the animi (plural of animus) to train by stalking and killing one another. If the game is pre-ordered at gamestop.com, an extra character called "the Harlequin" will be available to play as.

One of the multiplayer game modes has been announced in the July edition of Playstation magazine. This mode is called "Wanted". Six to eight players are dopped on a map, not too small, not too big, where they stalk and kill each other. Each player is given a target, an other player. You're goal is to find and kill your target without being seen or killed by your own predator. If you break cover, your target sees you and will run away, starting a chase sequence. They will try to hide from you, you have to catch them and kill them. It is a multiplayer experience unlike any other : cerebral, intense and exciting.

Aside from the characters and the "Wanted" game mode, no specifics are known as of yet.