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Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:01:09 +0000

[...] at the end of last year’s Assassin’s Creed 3 review [...]

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:53:28 +0000

Sounds like I’ll have to wait until its very discounted. Bet I can get Revelations cheap though.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:43:29 +0000

Saying it’s about the same as AC2 seems like a massive slur on AC2, but I feel that’s about where it is. I really liked AC2′s setting and character, and I didn’t like AC3′s setting so much and I hated its main character, but as far as I can recall they’re about on par in terms of what they’re like as actual games. AC3 is probably a tad worse thanks to just how unfocused it is, and there isn’t much it actually does better than 2, and when you look at it in the context of the previous two games and AC2 being released in 2009 you realise it’s actually a massive regression for the series, but I don’t think I’d call AC3 bad as such. Just really incoherent.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:00:51 +0000

It’s nowhere near as tight as AC2 and doesn’t have the redeeming feature of a main character who is quite compelling.

Bits of it are very good, but the whole experience is too fuzzy to say it’s as good as AC2.

That said, I don’t think you’ll fail to enjoy it… just… it’s obviously nowhere near as good an AC game as it should be.

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:41:50 +0000

I’ve been re-playing brotherhood and AC2 and, whilst ACB is better, I still found AC2 enjoyable. As such I’m not that fussed over whether AC3 matches up to the later sequels (since I plan on buying it later, at a discount) but whether it is at least as decent as AC2. So is it?

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:52:58 +0000

God I hated those. Connor was just the most awful character, actively frustrating to watch let alone play as.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:52:18 +0000

I’ve gone weirdly cold on Planetside, like I do with a lot of F2P games. But Assassin’s Creed 3 is still worse.

By: Everblue

Everblue — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:39:39 +0000

So you preferred it to Planetside 2 then?

(Kidding – great review, thank you)

By: Janek

Janek — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:29:08 +0000

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who found The Baddy’s flip from bumbling sidekick to MURDERDEATHBASTARD jarring.

I also basically found myself routing for the Templars for the entire game. Especially when they were making entirely reasonable arguments after Connor mortally wounded them and he’s all like “No you must all die, because FREEDOM”

Ugh.

By: innokenti

innokenti — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:33:21 +0000

More realistically there are a few ways they can go with AssCreed 4 (ignoring the releases they’ll do to over-clutter 3′s gameplay even more… unless they do a Haytham Kenway standalone – I’d play the shit out of that):

1) Prequels to the Desmond time-line and wherever else you want for the meat of the game. Okay probably, and at least has the chance to reduce the sci-fi wrapper to a minimum.

2) Post-Desmond sequel. Which would probably necessitate focusing a lot more on the sci-fi stuff in the ‘present’. Eugh.

3) Just cram everything into the last few moments of 3 and have it timelessly explain all the other ancestor stuff. A bit rubbish as the wrapper would not move on, but if we concentrate on the past stuff, maybe it would work.

4) Something I haven’t thought of.