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Creed vs Crows is the third expansion pack for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice. It was released on 20 May 2021 in Asia, and on 15 June 2021 in the United States and the European Union.
Synopsis[]
Creed vs Crows Expansion introduces competitive mode for 2 to 4 players. Play Assassins with Ezio Auditore against Cesare Borgia and his Crows.
Defend your tower and try to destroy your opponent's with your war automata.
Jump-in jump-out, standalone memories! Maximum replayability.[2]
Memories[]
- What Happens in the Tower Stays in the Tower
- Brothers in Arms
- Families Reunion
- Chest Wars
- The Borgias in Danger
- Hate in the Time of War
- Bring out Your Doctors!
- Between a Rock and a Traitor
Supplementary material[]
The booklet for this expansion, like one for the main campaign, includes two database-like entries:
When Leonardo da Vinci was forced to create war machines for the Borgias in 1499, his creative genius took over and he invented a whole system of combat automatons—it was still theoretical at that time—that can be set up in advance so that they travel a certain distance before setting off the bomb they are harboring.
Overcome by remorse, he managed to hide his blueprints, but the Borgias were finally able to get their hands on them and turned them over to the Favero [sic], who managed to finalize them. Fortunately, the Brotherhood also managed to create working prototypes thanks to Leonardo.
This small group of fierce Templars aims to fight the Assassins with their own methods.
Trained like true counter-Assassins, the Crows are specialists in disguise, infiltration and, of course, assassination. They all wear clothes and accessories that evoke their favorite animal, the crow. Moreover their former leader, Sirus Favero, was nicknamed Il corvo (the raven). In an attempt to preserve their anonymity, they use the names of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The Assassins will have to face the four Crows led by Cesare Borgia including the formidable Matteo Favero, son of the historic leader of the Crows.Features[]
The expansion includes miniatures of Cesare Borgia, Sirus Favero, and his Crows, and 8 of Leonardo's war automata. Also included is the booklet, which featuring 8 memories; 10 tiles; 33 large cards; 57 small cards; 4 custom dice; 2 dual-layer Crow player boards; initiative tokens; 4 clip-on bases; and 3 sticker sheets.
Behind the scenes[]
The expansion is considered non-canon in the Assassin's Creed series due to conflicts with preestablished events in the timeline. The game is set in 1510 and has Ezio in Venice, even though at this point he was busy making preparations to leave the Italian Assassins to go on sabbatical in Masyaf and search for Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's hidden library.[3] A more glaring error, however, are the appearances of Cesare Borgia and Sirus Favero, both of whom should be long dead, with Lo Sparviero and Niccolò Machiavelli having killed Favero in Rome in 1506[4] while Ezio killed Cesare in Viana during Cesare's 1507 siege of Viana Castle.[5] Lastly, the missions are episodic in nature, unrelated to previous or successive events, and because the game pits players against each other by playing as either faction, mission endings are ambiguous for having an equal chance of resolving in the Crows' favor instead of for the Assassins.
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