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Ubisoft today announced plans to extend the single-player and multiplayer component of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood with new DLC entitled The Da Vinci Disappearance. Due out in March on PSN and Xbox Live, the content chronicles the fall of the Borgias in Rome, during which Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped by an underground cult known as the Hermeticists. Ezio embarks on a 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.

Billed as Ubisoft’s “biggest multiplayer expansion” to date, it introduces Alhambra, a new multiplayer map set in the lush environment of Spain’s Albaicin of Granad. New playable characters include Dama Rossa, the Knight, the Marquis and the Pariah.

Additionally, Ubi has packed in two all-new gameplay modes, namely Escort and Assassinate. In Escort, two teams of four players compete in a team-based faceoff where each team must protect their VIP target or assassinate the other team’s VIP. Assassinate pits six to eight players against each other in ten-minute, deathmatch style bouts.

It’ll set you back 800 MS Points or $9.99, depending on your platform of choice. Unfortunately, there’s no word on if the recently dated PC release will join its console counterparts in receiving this DLC.

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