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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood: The Da Vinci Disappearance (DLC) is the expansion to the award-winning multiplayer video game Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, set for release in March 2011. The game is developed and published by Ubisoft. In the game, after the fall of the Borgias in Rome, Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by the Hermeticists, an underground cult dedicated to transforming mankind. Ezio will embark on a relentless quest to recover stolen paintings in order to find Leo before it is too late, discovering two new locations and two new gameplay features along the way in The Da Vinci Disappearence.

The multiplayer addition is the biggest expansion to the award-winning multiplayer yet, including one new map, four new characters and two new game modes. The new multiplayer map, Alhambra, is a lush environment set in Spain’s Albaicin of Granada and provides multileveled indoor and outdoor areas perfect for predators to lurk in the dense crowd for unsuspecting targets. The four new characters will undoubtedly be a huge hit with Assassin's Creed fans, consisting of the Dama Rossa, the Knight, the Marquis and the Pariah. The two new gameplay modes, Escort and Assassinate, will provide a whole new gameplay experience for Brotherhood players. In Escort mode, two teams of four players compete to protect their VIP target or assassinate the other team’s VIP target. In Assassinate mode six to eight players are pitted against each other deathmatch-style in one ten-minute round.

Brotherhood is a crime drama film, release date in the USA to be announced later. The film is written and directed by Will Canon and stars Jon Foster as Frank, Trevor Morgan as Adam, Lou Taylor Pucci as Kevin, Arlen Escarpeta as Mike, Jesse Steccato as Bean, Jennifer Sipes as Emily, Luke Sexton as Graham, Meyer deLeeuw as Collin and Jeff Gibbs as Officer Jennings.

Movie synopsis: College freshman Adam Buckley (Morgan) finds himself in the back of a van dealing with the fact that he has to rob a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Minutes Later, he finds himself dealing with the fact that a fellow-pledge, Kevin Fahey (Pucci), just got shot while doing it.

Frank (Foster), the senior fraternity brother in charge of the night's events, is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning. Thinking they can get out of the situation without taking Kevin to a hospital and alerting the authorities, Frank decides the fraternity will handle things themselves. But when every move is met with disastrous consequences, Adam soon realizes that in order to save his friend's life he must find it within himself to go against Frank and his new brothers.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is an action video game, published by Ubisoft for Sony PS3, more info and release date to be announced later. In the game, live and breathe as Ezio, now a legendary master assassin, in his struggle against the Templar order. Lead your own brotherhood of Assassins and strike at the heart of the enemy -- Rome.

For the first time in the Assassin's Creed line, Brotherhood lets players take part in an innovative multiplayer layer allowing you to embody an assassin of your choosing and define their killing style.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood game features:

A never-before-seen online multiplayer experience

Lead your own brotherhood of assassins, as Ezio, and conquer Rome.