Recent reviews by saamok

While the game is more enjoyable than Assassin's Creed 1, and lets you play landlord with upgrading your own little village, there is a sheen of Ubisoft quality (the culmination of which could be seen in the floating eyeballs and dentures of AC: Unity) all over this 2010 release. The DLC included in the Deluxe Edition disables two of the three hireable factions from Florence (mercenaries and courtesans) except for missions that specifically have them: don't wander around for hours trying to find ladies of the night, because there aren't any: you'll have to distract the soldiers guarding those codex pages some other way. Additionally, for some missions the game might also decide not to place the actual assassination target on the map, forcing you to abort the mission and try again (once you discover that there is no-one at the target marker.) Once you stop expecting the game to work all the time and resign yourself to the fact that it will just randomly break on occasion, you'll have a much better time playing it.

A treat to play on Hardcore, being able to actually pick a side and affect the outcome of the final battle is great -- and infinitely moddable to boot!