Assassin's Creed 3 is an interactive history lesson. It's game play might be a bit monotone, but at least it's varied.
In AC3, you not only climb rooftops and choose unique paths o your targets, but you get to sail the seas and take out ships. As well as controlling cannons to take out platoons, protecting farmers, escorting sickly people and even killing off rabid dogs. Assassin's Creed 3 is just full of different things to do, unlike previous installments where most of your mission revolved around assassinations.
Some things, like hunting, and crafting; are not satisfying and a bit useless. However, most of the side quests were fun and challenging. Like catching almanac pages for example, and the all too interesting Liberation Missions. My favorite however, were the Frontiersmen missions, that led me to an encounter with sasquatch. In a sense, AC3 is closer to an RPG than most of it's predecessors. Except that you never level up or grow stronger. It's just a very wide open game like usual, except that this time you're just faced with more tasks and a million things to do.
Some people may find the game to be a bit boring because it's a very slow game that requires patience. There's a lot of cut scenes and a lot of loading times. I also think several of the controls need work. Like the free climb system. I can't tell you how many times I accidentally climbed things. The animation is the best ever in an AC game. Action is smooth and impressive, and choreography is just mesmerizing at times . Unfortunately, combat is way too easy, and not nearly as challenging or rewarding as the system implemented into Batman- Arkham City. That game had a great combo system.
Multiplayer is pretty fun, but not something I'd play for hours on end. The strengths of the game is the story, the characters, and the experience of living out history. I felt as if I got to play out American history and it was just something that's hard to forget. The detail of the frontier impressed me the most, while the cities lacked the wow factor that Venice had, or Constantinople. Old Boston and New York were not the prettiest of cities.
8.5/10
(Arkham City remains the best open world stealth action adventure game, or I'd given AC3 a higher mark)