While obviously a "tiding-over" sequel created to fulfill Ubisoft's ridiculous once-per-year requirements for the franchise, Brotherhood manages to actually be a really good game. Ezio, now older and grumpier, travels to Rome in order to entirely unseat the Borgia after his home is attacked, and along the way has to rebuild the entire Assassin Brotherhood. The story is a little bit messy as some chapters meander around, but the gameplay has had a ton of small but significant lifts. The combat is now faster thanks to a chain-kill mechanic that lets Ezio now through entire groups, and the town renovation mechanic in II has been expanded to an entire city renovation. The best parts of the game are the Borgia guard towers, which all enable free-form assassination missions in order to remove the local captain and free the area up from the family's control.