Cesare Borgia tells his story in this Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood trailer:
“Through the years, I have watched the city of Rome. I have studied, trained, and killed within its walls. And in time, I have tamed it, shaped it. Nowhere in this city have I met a man equal to myself…”
Cesare Borgia (1475 – 1507) was an illegitimate son of Rodrigo Borgia and a nemesis of the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Like his father, he was a member of the Templar Order. Eventually, he became Captain General of the Papal armies, though he secretly plotted against his father to take over Rome, and all of Italy afterward.
Prior to his father’s death, he claimed the rank of Grand Master of the Templars in Italy, usurping the title completely after murdering his father. Despite his loyalty to the Templars, they were a secondary concern when compared to his own desire to control the powers of the Apple.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is a 2010 historical fiction action-adventure open world stealth video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
The story is set in a fictional history of real world events set in two time periods, the 16th and 21st centuries. The main portion of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood takes place immediately after the plot of Assassin’s Creed II, featuring 16th-century Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Italy and his quest to restore the Assassin order, and destroy his enemies: the Borgia family. Intersecting with these historical events are the modern day activities of series protagonist Desmond Miles, who relives his ancestor Ezio’s memories to find a way to fight against the Assassins’ enemies, the Templars, and to prevent the 2012 apocalypse.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is set in an open world and presented from the third-person perspective with a primary focus on using Desmond and Ezio’s combat and stealth abilities to eliminate targets and explore the environment. Ezio is able to freely explore 16th-century Rome to complete side missions away from the primary storyline. The game introduced a multiplayer component to the series, portrayed as a Templar training program.
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