User blog comment:Aegis Runestone/Revelations and Brotherhood--Delay for AC3?/@comment-4705174-20120422175029/@comment-1818887-20120425065321

Either way, I am glad both Brotherhood and Revelations were at all released. AC II was the pinnacle for me, I'm still not sure if I can see AC III topping it, but II just defined the series for me. Brotherhood was good, I had some fun playing with it and all the new features that weren't in II meant I played it for longer, and Revelations was kind of just a breeze for me. It's kind of like Ratchet and Clank, they had Quest for Booty to bridge Tools of Destruction and A Crack In Time together, but Quest for Booty was really short. Brotherhood was a good bridging game and it capitilized on the popularity that Ezio brought to the series, Revelations did also but many people saw it as going too far, but either way it closed both Altair's and Ezio's story arcs.

They were both good bridging games and entertained most of us before the long awaited release of III this year. Yes, something needed to fill the void between II and III, mainly for the Modern Day component, but Brotherhood was also largely about the introduction of Multiplayer, and Revelations was supposed to be a 3DS game but they expanded it for consoles to give them that extra year to really work on AC III, which I think will be an amazing game and a big contender for game of the year.