If you are looking at these reviews you're probably wondering: is this a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ assassin's creed or a the good one?

I can say it's a good one, easily.

The game relies less on the "parkour" aspect of the originals and spends a lot of time on story telling. There is less "oh ♥♥♥♥! hide" than in the other games and you can hold your own in combat even at the beginning. Combat is still challenging, and is fairly varied as you eventually have two melee weapons you can quick swap,usually with different styles, the same goes for bows.

The game world is massive and open, with missions that i'd put into 3 categories.

* The most plentiful of these are the location missions. These are all over, and usually require you to kill something, find something, or find and kill something. They are pretty repetitive, and serve largely as gold and XP farms.

* There are also side missions. These missions almost always have an interesting story hook and that hook will usually correspond with the main story for that mission.

* Then finally, there are story missions, and they are good. The cut-scenes are well done, and while I am a completionist in these games, I find myself pulled enough by the story to plow through several story missions at a time.

All games have their faults, this one's mainly being repetition above all else. Also, even with a 1060 and a decent rig behind it, i regularly dip below 60 fps on "high". All that said, i strongly recommend this game.