Spoiler Alert! The release of the trophy/achievements list for Assassins Creed: Brotherhood comes with a few new details of the game. Brotherhood has a total of 51 trophies (35 bronze, 14 silver, 1 gold and 1 platinum) but it is 4 that point to a an expansion of the present day in Assassins Creed.
Sanctuary! Sanctuary!, Bang!, Boom! and Kaboom! all point very strongly towards at least a small section of present day Assassins Creed action. Bang!, Boom! and Kaboom! all refer to destroying rather modern objects a machine gun, a bomber and a tank respectively.
But most interesting is Sanctuary! Sanctuary! that not only proves the present day portion of the title, but possibly much more. To unlock the trophy players must complete present sequence 1. Not only mentioning the present but if you look into it being present sequence ‘1’ could possibly mean there are a number of modern day portions in the storyline.
The ending of Assassins Creed II certainly hinted at a present day Assassins Creed but maybe this is the way future titles will also go with both past and present sequences.
Jakob
October 14, 2010 at 12:53 PMThe “Bang”, “Boom”, and “Kaboom” possibly refer to the Leonardo missions, and not the present day story-line. The only trophies that directly state anything with Desmond are as stated above, “Sanctuary, Sanctuary” (given the dialogue at the end of AC2), and “Present Sequence 1”, but also “Dust to Dust” where an artifact must be found in the present, and “Mailer Daemon” by accessing (Desmond’s ?) email.
Daniel
October 14, 2010 at 4:22 PM*SPOILER* (Kind of) The trophy I found the most interesting was the “.. .- — .- .-.. .. …- .” trophy, which is too solve all of subject 16’s puzzles. .. .- — .- .-.. .. …- . is morse code and is translated too IAMALIVE!