How can everything be a little bit better, a little bit more open, a little bit more rewarding. Instead, and to Ubisoft's eternal credit, it opts to go deeper rather than simply repeat. I'm quite sure that could have happened, and this could have been a sorry cash-in to ensure an annual franchise release. The choice to return to an apparently finished tale and pre-existent character/setting could have been read as a corner-cutting one, flogging a once extremely lively but now surely expired horse. They've got everything they want: everything is resolved for ever and ever, right? Not exactly. It's a bit like getting to see what happens to a romcom couple after the credits roll. While so far in AssCreed's short history, the tradition has been to switch to a different ancestor with each new game, this one performs the highly unusual choice of returning to a game's hero once his tale is apparently told. Instead, it's a sort of 2.5, perhaps even falling into the strange zone we call 'expandalone.' It documents the continuing adventures of Italian Renaissance-era outlaw-hero Ezio, who is the distance ancestor of present day reluctant science experiment/conspiracy participant Desmond.
No full-blown sequel here, no clean break with the past, no wish list of new features. Brotherhood, the third Assassin's Creed (please note, by the way, that I will be employing the shortforms AssCreed and AssBro throughout this piece - this does not demonstrate any contempt for the game, but does perhaps demonstrate that a) I'm lazy b) I remain far too amused by the word 'ass') is not Assassin's Creed 3. I've ballsed this one right up, eh? Perhaps but I'm aware there are preconceptions to be got past here.Īllow me to elaborate. Oh look, a conclusion in the very first line. The game that's least like the Assassin's Creed concept turns out to be the best use of the concept yet. Too little too late, or about damned time? Or a bit of both? Here's my verdict. I poured some time in the Xbox 360 (hissssss) edition late last year, and I've now spent the last week or so with the PC one. Ubisoft's third Assassin's Creed game arrived on PC on Friday - some four months later than the console version.
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