Assassin's Creed III

[leviath]

It would have been pretty cool if the Haytham parts went deeper with London to visit.

[Bolkonsky]

The Wolves unbeatable? It's just pressing two buttons in a sequence, boring, but hardly difficult.

Well I'm not very good at it because I changed my controls to better fit the game, so it's a rather annoying sequence on opposite sides of the keyboard.

[Manco]

Anyway, I largely agree with your views.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad game, I had fun while playing, but it's so incredibly bland and just the same thing all over again.

[HunterKYA]

Well I'm not very good at it because I changed my controls to better fit the game, so it's a rather annoying sequence on opposite sides of the keyboard.

Had such a problem with that early on, I almost got a 360 controller for PC to compensate for the poor key mapping.

[ivan_the_terrible]

Well the developers did explicitly say that they designed the game with a controller in mind, even on PC -- the keyboard is less than ideal.

I actually rather like the game, though I do agree with the OP that the mandatory childhood sections are much too long and boring, especially after you've already played the game once (I imagine, I haven't finished it yet). And some of the minigames are just infuriating -- the one where you have to separate the two men fighting is just awful: there's no explanation of what you're supposed to do, and it's fiddly, and when I did it a deer bugged out and got stuck there in the cutscene in mid-gallop as I was trying to separate the two guys!

But the frontier and the sea battles are actually really well done in my opinion. I commend them for taking such a risk with these two major features of the game. The result is not always flawless, yes, but it was worth it, in my opinion. Plus have you ever climbed a cliff or a tall tree in the frontier? It's breath-taking in a way almost no other game is.

[Mhaedros]

I have to agree on every single point you've made. This is a terrible game, and re-buy the original AC over AC3 any day.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

I agree with the review.The game could have been better and was repetitive.And I am a fan of Assassin games.
Nice review and informative.

[Muizer]

Just a note: Single player is unplayable with nVidia 3D vision. It's rated "not recommended", but that's an understatement. Pity, because brotherhood and revelations were great in 3D.