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timmah on 31 January 2013
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ps3-sales! said:
Kantor said:
Munkeh111 said:
Scoobes said:

Probably because AC2 was a brilliant game, superior in most ways to AC3 and a huge step up from AC1.

I totally agree that it wasn't as good as AC II and it was certainly disapointing, but once I got that out of my system, I thoroughly enjoyed it

Well, I guess I was enjoying it to some degree whilst I was playing it, though never nearly as much as I enjoyed AC2.

It's just looking back that I see how disappointing it really was.

I suppose it's still a high 7 to a low 8, but that puts it fourth in the series for me (behind II, Brotherhood and Revelations), and I was hoping it would be the best of the lot. This is what annualised releases do to a franchise


This and also Kantor your previous comment.

About 10 hours in now, the story is a COMPLETE mess. I have no idea what's going on half the time. AC2 will always be the best in the series, but was hoping they actually improved it with the 3rd interation. 

I actually enjoyed the game 70% of the time, but I agree the story is a mess overall. My gripes were, the combat/control system can range anywhere from decent-good to downright awful depending on the situation. I'd run into many times where the climbing mechanics worked great, or times when I'd repeatedly do the exact same thing and Connor would stand/hang there like an idiot, go backwards, or jump to his death... then on try number 10, he would inexplicably make the jump I'd been telling his dumb ass to make all along. The other thing was the somewhat bizarre changes in difficulty from mission to mission. I'd complete one mission 1st try with 100% sync, the next would be 20 tries of me cursing and trying not to throw my expensive gamepad, only to not get even a single optional objective, then the next mission would be inexplicably easy again. The combat system works great with some enemies & enemy groups, while other times it feels stupidly random and clunky. The absolute worst thing about the game was the annoying children who follow you around the city making bizarre laughing/whooping noises... WTF?!?! I mean really, WHAT?

Overall, what made up for it was being able to interact with some really cool points in history, the epic naval missions (except one that glitched on me twice at the end requiring me to start over), the side challenges (which I'm not anywhere near completing), the portion of the main missions that were actually fun and challenging without being broken or frustrating, as well as the huge semi-open world and the beautifully rendered cities. Good game with its fair share of flaws.

EDIT: I almost forgot, the random bears/wolves can kiss my ass.