I like being beaten up by muslim women in 16th century

Masterpiece again

To start this off, I don't think this is a bad game by all means but it honestly did disappoint me quite a bit. To start off, I just wanted to say I think they really did a great job with the setting in this game. It takes place during 1511-1512 inside Constantinople where he meets the Ottoman Brotherhood of Assassins in order to collect 5 keys to unlock Altair’s library underneath the Masyaf castle to prevent templars from collecting a piece of Eden. I loved playing as an older Ezio, and seeing his journey as an assassin come to an end. Ezio’s character is unlike any other I’ve ever seen in a video game before, we watch him grow from the stubborn, vengeance-driven juvenile in AC2 to the wise, stoic geriatric at the end of AC Revelations. Furthermore, the addition of playing as Altair further improved the game. Every opportunity I gained to play as him felt refreshing and almost nostalgic despite the fact I had only played AC1 last month. I loved revisiting Masyaf castle and the surrounding village leading up to it. I have to say the ending for this game was perfect, it perfectly satisfied my questions on how Altair and Ezio’s journey ended.

However, there’s a lot of negatives to be discussed about this game. There's nothing innovative about the gameplay at all, it genuinely seems like an AC Brotherhood DLC. This is not helped by the length of the story too, I feel it was way too short in comparison to other AC games. I was expecting much more emphasis on the Brotherhood features where you could recruit assassins, however literally nothing has been changed from the previous game, which is honestly my biggest disappointment. They have seemed to go back to their AC2 roots where there's a guard on just about every building making it difficult to free roam without being tailed by guards. Some guards are also just impossible to kill with melee in the early game, they block every single attack you make, they dodge every single kick, and your counters literally are meaningless, they also attack you in groups and shoot you with their guns which are unavoidable unless you attack them, which isn’t really an option with this games really clunky combat mechanics. I feel like combat really wasn’t great in this game at all in comparison to Brotherhood where I think the overhaul was really necessary and great for the game. Parkour is relatively the same even with the inclusion of the Hook Blade, which I was looking forward to most in this game. Side characters aren’t very memorable with the exception of Yusuf and Sofia. I personally didn’t enjoy Desmond’s story too much either in this game, I feel like they should really put more emphasis into it, like in the first game with the unnerving uncertainty you feel throughout the game, which this game fails to do despite the stakes being much higher. I also feel this game is way too clunky to be played on a keyboard and mouse, especially doing parkour around water, I ALWAYS fall into the water which is honestly an issue I've had since AC2 so to see it still present in revelations has to be the most annoying thing. Another irritating thing about the game is that Eagle Vision only works when you're standing still, it took me so long to figure this out and had me stuck on so many puzzles for so long. This was never present in previous entries, it shouldn’t be present here. Finally, this game has really poor performance issues for such an old game, there's a lot of audio stutters, enemies spawning right in front of me as im free running, and camera freezes

It took me a while to eventually like this game, initially I was going to give this a 6/10 but it really does pick itself up in the latter section of the game. That being said, I really hope to see some changes with Assassin's Creed III because there really weren’t enough within this game. I do recommend this game if you enjoyed Brotherhood and AC2 as much as I did.

Final Score:

7.3/10