Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Finally Coming to PC, Without Online DRM

[RelexCryo]

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Finally Coming to PC, Without Online DRM

After many delays, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is at long last getting a PC release and without that pesky online DRM crap from Ubisoft.

No self-respecting PC gamer could get behind the blaringly annoying DRM scheme that Ubisoft cooked up for Assassin's Creed 2 on the PC, which required an always-on online connection. It was even more irritating when Ubisoft's servers crashed, preventing anyone from playing the game [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98927-Ubisoft-DRM-Authentication-Servers-Go-Down] that they put down hard-earned money for. Ubisoft has since apologized for the gaffe, and it seems that the lesson was well learned because the online authentication scheme has been dropped for the PC release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood when it comes out on March 17th. There's no word on whether that was why the PC version is coming out nearly five months after the console release.

"The PC version of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood after an initial login, will be playable offline in single player mode," a representative from Ubisoft confirmed today.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will come in various special and "Codex" editions. The Codex will come with an actual wooden box containing the main game along with the Abstergo Project and The Da Vinci Disappearance DLC, a 60-page book written by Altair, a map of Rome, a set of multiplayer trading cards, a DVD with three short films detailing the story of Giovanni Auditore, Ezio's father, and a bonus DVD with the soundtrack and other sundry goodies.

The Special Edition, packaged in Cold Foil (whatever that is), will have the DLC and a multiplayer character, the Officer, a stealthy assassin who can assassinate his targets with a swift and powerful attack, and a map: The Trajan Market.

The Officer is a stealthy assassin...as opposed to who? Is there a multiplayer character who just runs around with Machetes chopping everything in sight to death? I sure hope so....

 

[Jack Macaque]

I`ll be honest, I just read that article and found out what this DRM thing was, and I feel as though part of myself has just passed on into the afterlife.

 

[Hader]

I already played and finished this on my brother's 360, however I have always wanted to try this on my PC and see how that plays in comparison.

I think my money is going to Shogun 2 first though, so this will have to wait for a steam sale.

 

[Light 086]

I have it for the xbox and the only problem I had with it is how long it takes for a lobby to start up sometimes(probably just used to MW 2). Never had any other issues with the games multiplayer.

 

[Creator002]

Woo-hoo. My PC specs surpass the minimum requirements, and that's saying something.

Another game to add to my (PC) library and I have a 360 controller for Windows.

 

[Rack]

They really need to do better if they want to sell games on the PC. My C2D 6600 with a 4870 will run this less well than a 360 AND I need an Internet connection whenever I want to play AND it's more expensive? Why in hell would I want anything to do with that?

 

[Farlander]

Riddle me this: does anybody know if the Codex edition is Europe/Australia only again or it will be available world-wide this time? (Since there is absolutely no mention ANYWHERE of the Jack-in-a-box collector's edition for PC). I really dig the chest in the Codex edition (so I want it ), but I'm kinda not in Europe at the moment (and won't be there for a long time).

 

[Sampsa]

AC2's DRM didn't acctualy bother me so much. Most irritating was setting up and account and login.