Digital d23 plays Assassin's Creed 3

  

This game puts the ass into assassin's creed



Now I like the assassin's creed series I got into at brotherhood and have played most of the games and liked them despite their flaws. So I had some hope for this game to be good and it was hyped up before the launch with that video of Connor just slaughtering British troops left, right and centre. Unfortunately the game isn't like that.  (There will not be any spoilers except for notes at the bottom with an  ' beside them) So the game opens with a little cutscene that doesn't help to explain what is happening to newcomers, who will be confused by this and are there really that many people who are going to buy this who aren't fans of the series? The opening to this game is a five to six hour tutorial that restricts as much as possible.

The game is just so slow to pick up and when it does there is limitations to what you can do such as the fact that there are guards perched so close together that it is an accomplishment not to be detected while trying to free run on the rooftops which you could do all of the other games. The problem with free-running is the restrictions as you must follow the path given by the game or fail which in comparison to the last games is ridiculous as you were given the freedom to forge your own path.

So the plot is of course rather silly but the main problem lies with the ending and how moronic what happens at the end. It revolves around Desmond making a choice either one is stupid so I calling this game "mass assassin' effect creed 3". Although I do like the revolutionary setting and have to admire the towns look and feel to them. The one good thing I can say about the plot is at least John De Lancie's(Q see Star Trek The Next Generation. ) character was actually interesting. Desmond is now more involved than ever I really don't care that much as Desmond has no personality behind his derp face. I mean Desmond exists and that is about it.

Speaking about main characters let's talk about our new protagonist, Connor is mainly just angry and humourless throughout the entire game except for one scene that is actually amazing. Allow me to elaborate "Your village is burning and run through it crying out for your Mother you find trapped under a fallen log as you enter a quick time event you realise there is no way to save her she tells you to find your Father while you refuse to leave eventually on of the villagers drags you off, kicking and screaming". That is really well crafted in the game. So he has vendetta against the man who burned his villager but at points he becomes ridiculously obsessed with it almost costing other people their lives or causing the revolution to be hindered, which he supports!. Connor is humourless, aggressive and bland and I never really cared about what happens to him.
Side missions in this game mainly involve either liberation missions, trinkets, war at sea, almanac pages or homestead missions. War at sea and liberation missions are the only fun side missions in this game the rest are just boring and tedious. Naval combat in this game is some of the best I've seen and I hope to see in the next one.The liberation missions are great because the combat system allows you to go in Rambo style and just mow down all the guards in your path and I am not complaining about that. But the rest are boring especially the homestead mission as they are incredibly linear for example in one mission this couple are making a crib as the wife just became pregnant the next mission she is giving birth in the woods.
So overall the game is a mixed bag as there is a lot to complain about but it still has some good if not great elements I would give it a 7/10.


'So Desmond must sacrifice himself to release Juno to save the world but turns out she is evil and wants to rule it, the end.
This makes no sense as she has no reason to want to conquer the world as all she has ever known was destroyed millenia ago also why does she want to what possible reason could she have to rule the world and finally what will she do once she has conquered the world all she is is a ghost in a machine. This is the height of laziness all they did was write turns out she is evil!! OMG!!!. More on this later.