Posted on: November 7, 2022
Madmonkeman
Games: 2 Reviews: 3
Great game aside from the investigations
The game is fun and the story is intriguing, but it's definitely one of those games where you're just playing it because you want to do the entire series. It's fun but the gameplay is very, very basic. For the most part it boils down to climbing a tower to see part of the map, do an investigation, and then do the assassination. Once you do enough assassinations then you complete a memory sequence, which then continues part of the modern story, and then you continue. I honestly did not enjoy the investigations that much. Your options were basically "follow a guy into an alley and punch him a few times", "kill a few guards on the roof", "make it to this area of the map within a certain amount of time", and "follow a guy until he's close to other people and pickpocket him". Now what I did enjoy a lot about this game was the stealth. There weren't too many actual mechanics, but it was designed in way where you really had to mentally plan ahead on how you were going to get in, take out your target, and get out as quickly as possible. And then if you failed and got caught you'd have the entire city on you. The combat was fairly simple, but the sheer amount of guards you'd have to face made it so that you wouldn't want to get caught because running around the city would eventually overwhelm you. And then once that happens, really the only way to hide is to get on the roof. Unlike Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood (and probably the rest of the games), you can't just kill your target and then quickly make your way to another section of the city and be completely fine. If you happen to fall off a building into the city then you'd immediately have guards running at you no matter what part of the city you were in. The way it was executed just made it really tense if you got caught and relieving once you managed to hide.
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