Recent reviews by pUcKeR

Hands down GOTY. Worth every penny.

If you're a completionist some of it feels like a grind, but you don't have to grind to enjoy the game. Difficulty is challenging but the more you pay attention to boss movesets and spend less time button mashing you'll find it much more enjoyable.

August 23rd and still unplayable.

I have been a long time supporter of the franchise, but I cannot in good conscious recommend a game as seriously flawed as this. Here is a rundown of the serious faults I found with this game.

1. Bug ridden release: I would occasionally fall through the map, notre dame, barrels that would desychronize the game. Invisible enemies or NPCs character loaded headless.
2. Poorly Optimized: There are times when the game would stutter due to frame rate issues or lock up due to poor coding. My computer doesnt run quad SLI but its no slouch either.
3. Poor Integration across different platforms: Companion App and AC Initiates would not register completion of quests or events inside of games. Besides that, why would you even release a product before its accessory components aren't even complete.
4. Story: In the past ubisoft sucess as been their storytelling by tying in their story within significant historical moments in time. To that effect being thrown into revolutionary France and tie in such an underwhelming plot is a genuine injustice to past games that had always put importance of how assassins and templars shaped history. The new main lead Arno suffers from the same problem of previous games being poorly fleshed out with no real personality of their own. That is assuming Ubisoft wasnt going for boring character does x.
5. Micro Transactions/Season Pass: I am not against micro-transactions as a whole. In fact I loved it in Mass Effect 3. However, at an already steep price point given that most people(like myself) pay for the season pass is pretty dissapointing.

This is a mediocre game at best. Nuke reviews that said it totally sucks are blown way out of proportion. Definitely over-hyped. The whole graphics demo from 2012 is total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The game definitely needs some optimization, but didn't notice any 'game-breaking bugs'. The main character is very uninteresting and his constant circular logic on justifying his actions becomes nauseating. The first acts are good. The last two are seems like a hacked together rush job by Ubisoft. Hell the entire basis of the story is kind of obvious from the very beginning. This is a 'bargain bin' game. Shame on you Ubisoft. Kudos to the Ubisoft marketing team for suckering me into buying this full price. :*(

Fun but adds nothing new to the series. Storyline was far too short. No huge game breaking bugs that I ran into either than Croc clipping in the beginning. Best to pick up game when its a bargain.

If you're a fan of the series as a whole and are a completionist (like me) then buy this game. Otherwise this is definitely a title to skip or buy when its dirt cheap.