Manhunt

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Manhunt is one of the multiplayer game modes in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Each game lasts for ten minutes in playing-time, separated into two rounds of five minutes. At the beginning of a Manhunt game, the players are given a choice of either the first team or the second team; team one hunts team two during the first round, and vice versa in the second round.

Starting Out

According to which team you choose at the beginning, the gameplay may be radically different. Each player has a preference of

A defender blends to hide from a hunter.

either being a stealthy hunter or hide.In player matches it may be that someone chooses a team different from their friends because they like to hunt first. The first person to join the team can choose which multiplayer character the entire team play as.

A unique feature of this mode of gameplay is how each round focuses on a single strategy: Hunting your prey alongside teammates, or hiding from the hunters by use of skill and abilities. Several users have taken advantage of this by communicating with their teammates in order to coordinate their attack or defending each other from the hunters. The key to Manhunt is communication and teamwork- no matter the score at any point in the game, the opposite team can always turn events around into a victory if the player is not careful.

Key Strategies

Pack Hunting

The team works alongside each other while seeking and killing the opposing team. This usually includes communication through headsets or simple instinctive ganging-up on a tough defender.

If all four players on defense stick together, the best choice is for all the hunters to stick together and hunt as a group as well; the key is waiting for everybody to be in position and coordinating attacks to avoid being caught in a stun trap.

Safety in Numbers

The defenders all stay in a large group, or in smaller groups close to each other. When an enemy has been spotted, every defender will focus on stunning them or disabling them in order to gain points or help their teammates escape.

Stun Traps

This usually works best with a group of two or three defenders. When an attacker has been spotted and comes close, one of the defenders can either get a stun or throw a smokebomb and stun the pursuer. While the pursuer is on the ground a different defender can wait by them and stun the pursuer again without the use of any abilities. A pursuer can be stunned several times in a row by defenders that alternate their stuns. This is repeated until the attacker gives up and respawns or the attacker's teammates arrive to help their comrade.

References

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qeGqO2lSuc - GamerSpawn talks to Games Designer Boris Maniora about the multiplayer aspect of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, at the Paris Games Week 2010.