Warning, this game (and all the DLCs) is protected by Uplay\Ubisoft connect, and Ubisoft may remove your license to run this game (and DLC) at any time as it happened with The Crew! Do not buy any game (or DLC) tied to Ubisoft connect launcher\drm and refund every Ubisoft game (or DLC) you got that has launcher\drm until they took away your game (or DLC) from you and shut down servers!

Now the Full story:
You bought game on Steam, but because it rely on Ubisoft Connect (Uplay) third party DRM and Launcher - Ubisoft has full control over game on their side, and they not just pulled the server plug without releasing offline patch or releasing server software binary and source to let users continue to run the game, they also removed license to run The Crew via Uplay\Ubi (dis)connect, whic is 100% illegal and literally a thievery and also goes against Steam rules.

This leads to next conclusion - Valve should not allow any company to push third party DRM and Launchers on steam, and all the DRM and Launch must be 100% steam controlled with Valves abilityt to release a steam side patch that will allow to play games forever offline if Steam servers will ever goes down. Any existing game with third party online DRM and Launcher must be forced to get patched out of these launchers and DRMs and until its done entire catalogue of games from this publisher should be temporary blocked from selling until they will this technical requirment with all previously released games, They may keep their launchers\server side integration only via DLL, not launchers (same way as old GFWL and current Xbox integration does it) which should be optional and should provide online features such as achievements, and stats and MP, but should not server as DRM that prevents launching game and that can controls licenses.

Additionally Valve must force all new and old games to use Steam's own cloud saves feature, if third party launchers provide cloud saves this feature may remain and may act as secondary copy in case someone would want to launch this game outside of steam directly from their launchers (that may allow to launch their non steam versions but should be removed from Steam), and it should be implemented via online services DLL.

Also every game with online services that is sold on steam, new or old should be patched to provide steam online services as alternative to publisher's own servers for all the online features, and additionally all the dedicated and master servers must be provided with every online game old and new and they must be patched out to get option which allows to change master servers and to connect directly to ips of servers dedicated or p2p.

This must be done with all the old games and must be forced to new games. This should give steam users warranty that whenever official servers will be shut done, all online features will remain working with Steam or custom user servers as backup to which users should be able to switch easily inside game options (ot at least inside some ini or cfg file or CMD argument).

We should demand Valve to enforce this policy and to ban publishers and developers who refuse to update this game according to this "game preservation policy". If Valve will deny this request we should force Valve to force this policy to third parties with help of courts and goverments of our countries and all sorts of customer protection services!

Besides this - Ubisoft should be the 1st company to get banned by Valve from selling games on Steam until all the old and new games will be patched to remove Upaly launcher\drm and allow 100% offline and Steam only launch of every game, and until Ubi will restore all online features of all released games with user operated backup servers which software should be provided with game distribution and games should be updated to have option that would allow to change custom backup master servers adress and also connect directly to dedicated servers and p2p servers of other cliens of games to play online with them.

And we should never trust Ubisoft again and should stop buying any Uplay\Ubisoft connect protected game until it will be removed from every game, and we should demand refund for every Ubisoft game that uses Uplay or that has its online features disabled, because part of features we paid for are gone and because Uplay proved to be unreliable service that may take away any of your games even if you own them on Steam, so to prevent another act of thievery from Ubisoft we must refund every game that is tied to their servers and Valve must allow this after what Ubi did to The Crew!

One more thing we should all do - we should not trus any other publisher which pushes their own launchers and drm, including DENUVO with its online activation, and of game that has third party launcher or Denuvo should also be boycotted or refunded if its already purchasedand we must demand Valve to demand removal of those launchers and DRMs from all existing games!

We must also demand our goverments to make a law that forces all of this and restricts companies to use online DRMs and to shut down any servers without proving offline drm free patches and providing server side software and option to change adress to make it possible for user continue to run servers unofficially.

I love assassin creed game, but this one is simply horrible.
It's buggy, the plot feels repetitive compared to previous games (with the exception of the original assassin creed), the enemies are extremely stupid, and game mechanics feel like a downgrade of previous games.
If you intend to play stealthy like a true assassin, forget it, the stealth mechanism is crap.
Also, like many others have said, it feels unfinished and unpolished.

But I would still give it a thumb up if that was all.
Unfortunately, the thing makes this game almost unplayable are the controls.
The game makes a very good job at predicting what you want to do, and then do the opposite of what you want, and to such a degree that if almost feel intentional.
Like if you want to go into a window, it will bypass it repeatedly, but if you try to bypass the window and climb the wall ... it will enter the window.
Same for choosing which enemy to attack.
Same for choosing where to jump to.
Etc ...
These controls make me miss Gotham knight which had the worst controls I've ever encountered ... until this game.
I usually don't write such long reviews, so this should indicate how bad it is !!!

good game so far