The game itself* is quite great overall. (Will elaborate at the end.) Good sequel to AC 3 and 4, if you liked Black Flag, you'll enjoy this one. The setting is back in colonial America, but there's not nearly as much running across open wilderness. Better designed wilderness land levels overall. Hunting is also less tedious, like it was in 4. Fewer annoying follow and eavesdrop missions. Beat-em-up challenges maybe too dumbed down, but who cares. Sailing your ship is smoother than ever. No more underwater challenges. Basically, a smoother, less frustrating experience overall. Story gets pretty interesting after a slow beginning.

I did experience several pure glitches, where your character gets stuck in the level after jumping off something and you have to reload. Didn't have any of those in 3 or 4. Fortunately not enough to be truly game breaking.

And finally, the worst flaw of this game is the metagame crap when you're out of the Animus. It got scaled back drastically after 3, but now it just feels more pointless than ever. Getting taken out of the Animus to slowly wander around and do a random minigame really breaks the immersion and simply isn't fun. It should either be as good as the real game, or just scaled back to cutscenes to fill in the story.

The game itself* is quite great overall. (Will elaborate at the end.) Good sequel to AC 3 and 4, if you liked Black Flag, you'll enjoy this one. The setting is back in colonial America, but there's not nearly as much running across open wilderness. Better designed wilderness land levels overall. Hunting is also less tedious, like it was in 4. Fewer annoying follow and eavesdrop missions. Beat-em-up challenges maybe too dumbed down, but who cares. Sailing your ship is smoother than ever. No more underwater challenges. Basically, a smoother, less frustrating experience overall. Story gets pretty interesting after a slow beginning. I did experience several pure glitches, where your character gets stuck in the level after jumping off something and you have to reload. Didn't have any of those in 3 or 4. Fortunately not enough to be truly game breaking. And finally, the worst flaw of this game is the metagame crap when you're out of the Animus. It got scaled back drastically after 3, but now it just feels more pointless than ever. Getting taken out of the Animus to slowly wander around and do a random minigame really breaks the immersion and simply isn't fun. It should either be as good as the real game, or just scaled back to cutscenes to fill in the story.