I'm doing a back flip on this game: I don't think I'll get it till someone, a user, can assure me of its quality.
Some of the reviews I've read have been unenthusiastic, stating that there's not enough of the assassination element in the game and that its padded with unnecessary tasks. How do you work on a game for three years without identifying what the essence of the whole series is?
Read some of these comments:
Joystiq: "It's sad to see the game lose sight of its assassin role-playing ideals in favor of bombast, bomb blasts and pig herding"
Videogamer: "But ultimately the quality of the mission design has taken a huge nosedive from the series peak of Assassin's Creed II."
games (TM): "It's indicative of Ubisoft's approach, so wary of the player discovering their own enjoyment, or missing key information, that it so fervently handholds through what should be its most spectacular moments."
I'm not trying to spoil it for people looking forward to the game, but just be weary that even when the PC version is the superior platform, the stuff mentioned here will not change.
Hows everyone feeling about the game?? Do these reviews change your mind??
biggest_loser
I've played it through sequence 5 thus far, and let me just say this: the game starts slow. Incredibly slow. In all honesty, if I hadn't played previous games in the series and I was a newcomer to AC3, I probably would have either quit playing the game after the first couple of hours or just stopped playing the campaign and jumped into multiplayer. You don't even get to play as the the main protaganist until a significant amount of time into the game.
And the sidequests, from my experiences thus far, haven't been anything really standout. The game, as one of the quotes above says, handholds you for a very long amount of time. It's actually a bit infuriating to be handed this open world but then have everything spoonfed to you, at least at the beginning.
I don't know what it is about the series, but I've never found it to be nearly as great as the gaming press (and a lot of players) have made it out to be. The series does one thing well - recreating fantastic settings that really immerse the player in the world. But except for that, everything else seems to be lacking. Combat, while admittedly improved from past iterations, still has that practically non-existent difficulty, and stealth seems more often of a hindrance rather than actually being effective. Why take your time silently assassinating targets one by one when it is far less time consuming (and equally effective), to just charge headfirst into a group of enemies and take them all down at once?
I've never been a fan of the story in Assassin's Creed, and this game is once again, no exception. But I won't delve into that to avoid talking about potential spoilers.
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