Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood PC requirements revealed

Steam's opened up a pre-purchase page for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, detailing the minimum and recommended PC specs for running the game.

Here are the minimum requirements from the listing:

• OS: Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits)/Windows 7® (32-64 bits)
• Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ
• Memory: 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® - Windows 7®
• Graphics: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list*)
• DirectX®: 9.0
• Hard Drive: 8 GB
• Sound: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
• Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller
• Supported Video Cards: ATI® RADEON® HD 2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 series, NVIDIA GeForce® 8/9/100/200/300/400/500 series

And the recommend specs are:

• OS: Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits)/Windows 7® (32-64 bits)
• Processor: Intel Core® 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
• Memory: 1.5 GB Windows® XP / 2 GB Windows Vista® - Windows 7®
• Graphics: GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
• DirectX®: 9.0
• Hard Drive: 8 GB
• Sound: 5.1 sound card
• Peripherals: Keyboard, mouse, joystick optional (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)
• Supported Video Cards: ATI® RADEON® HD 2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 series, NVIDIA GeForce® 8/9/100/200/300/400/500 series

Ubisoft recently confirmed that the PC version will be releasing on March 17 in North America and March 18 in the UK.

It also announced on Monday that a new Assassin's Creed game will be announced in May and will see a 2011 release.