Two New Assassin’s Creed Videos

Ubisoft has released two new videos for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. The first, titled “Re-establishing Trust,” addresses rebuilding trust with real-life friends after virtually assassinating them in the game’s multiplayer mode. The second, titled “Thief,” introduces the thief class to Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and demonstrates a few of the things the thief is able to do.

Assassin’s Creed began in 2007 as an action-adventure series built by Ubisoft around historical settings, blending free-running and rooftop parkour with stealth-based assassination gameplay. Each game frames its historical story within a modern-day science-fiction wrapper, in which descendants of the assassins relive their ancestors’ memories through a device called the Animus, tying together separate eras and protagonists across the series.

Assassin’s Creed II, released in 2009, introduced Ezio Auditore, a young nobleman in Renaissance-era Italy who avenges his family and becomes an assassin over the course of the game, moving the series away from its debut protagonist and setting. Ezio’s story continued directly into Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, released in 2010, which relocates him to Rome to take on the Borgia family’s grip on the city. Brotherhood introduced a recruitment system letting players train and deploy their own assassin allies against Borgia captains and towers, expanding on the original assassination gameplay with a wider strategic layer.

Brotherhood also marked the series’ first entry to include a multiplayer mode, a significant departure for a franchise that had, up to that point, been built entirely around single-player storytelling. The multiplayer modes cast players as assassins hunting other players’ characters within a crowd of AI-controlled bystanders, rewarding stealth and blending in over simply running down a target, and different playable character classes – such as the thief class referenced in the “Thief” video – offered distinct tools and approaches within those modes.

The “Re-establishing Trust” video reflects on a recurring side effect of that new multiplayer mode: players facing their real-life friends across the game’s assassination-based matches, sometimes with lighthearted consequences once the round ends. Brotherhood continued the series’ pattern of pairing its historical single-player campaign with real-world context, weaving fictional characters like Ezio alongside true events and figures of Renaissance Italy, a hallmark of the franchise since its earliest entries.

Ubisoft’s promotional push around Brotherhood leaned heavily on short videos like these two, each spotlighting a single new feature rather than trying to summarize the whole game at once. Multiplayer was by far the bigger structural addition, and Ubisoft used the format to ease longtime single-player fans into the idea gradually – first showing the social angle of hunting friends, then following up with gameplay-focused looks at specific classes like the thief. That steady drip of short, focused reveals became a common marketing pattern for the series in the years that followed, as later entries continued to build out and refine the multiplayer layer Brotherhood introduced.