This game was very entertaining overall. There were some cool missions. I enjoyed the ones where you have to infiltrate the Borgia castle, it was reminiscent of a Robin Hood movie. There are also fun side missions, like Leonardo's Machines, where you travel to a Borgia stronghold, infiltrate it, and use an innovative military machine against the enemy before destroying it. These are great fun. The combat is also improved, allowing you to go on killstreaks, and you get a crossbow this time around, decreasing the annoying ammo refill trips to the blacksmith. It's also nice to be able to ride your horse through the city instead of having to leave it at the gate. It is amusing though how you can basically gallop through the streets and knock people over without worrying about hurting them.
Now for the bad: 1. You're mostly in one place, Rome, and it gets kind of boring. I was also kind of disappointed in Rome, I thought it was going to be a city even grander than those in AC 2, but it was basically just areas of narrow, claustrophobic, uninteresting streets, broken up by open areas featuring Roman ruins. 2. Infuriating missions. Some missions are so hard, with methods to complete them very unclear, demanding an unreasonable amount of thinking on your feet. I eventually stopped losing it whenever something inexplicably went wrong and just accepted that some missions are basically just like rolling a dice, hoping things work out for you the first time, and succeeding only after learning from your mistakes. However, on one mission, I got to the next checkpoint without even knowing how it happened! Next time I play the game, I'll be as unsure of what to do as I was the first time. 3. That damn Apple of Eden. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to wield it properly without watching a youtube video of someone else doing the mission. 4. It was nice to finally be able to do virtual combat practice outside of the game, I don't know why this wasn't in the previous 2 games. As a veteran of the Batman Arkham games, it was really annoying. But nevertheless, it was finally there, though it was kind of limited. It would be nice to be able to just fight an unlimited amount of guards for an unlimited amount of time. The longest amount of time you can fight is 2 minutes. 5. Soundtrack was forgettable. There were a couple interesting additions, but it was mostly uninteresting, and there was too much rehashing of the 2nd game's soundtrack, which was exquisite in its entirety. 6. Like the the previous installments, the final boss battle was way too easy. It's anticlimactic.
Now for the bad: 1. You're mostly in one place, Rome, and it gets kind of boring. I was also kind of disappointed in Rome, I thought it was going to be a city even grander than those in AC 2, but it was basically just areas of narrow, claustrophobic, uninteresting streets, broken up by open areas featuring Roman ruins. 2. Infuriating missions. Some missions are so hard, with methods to complete them very unclear, demanding an unreasonable amount of thinking on your feet. I eventually stopped losing it whenever something inexplicably went wrong and just accepted that some missions are basically just like rolling a dice, hoping things work out for you the first time, and succeeding only after learning from your mistakes. However, on one mission, I got to the next checkpoint without even knowing how it happened! Next time I play the game, I'll be as unsure of what to do as I was the first time. 3. That damn Apple of Eden. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to wield it properly without watching a youtube video of someone else doing the mission. 4. It was nice to finally be able to do virtual combat practice outside of the game, I don't know why this wasn't in the previous 2 games. As a veteran of the Batman Arkham games, it was really annoying. But nevertheless, it was finally there, though it was kind of limited. It would be nice to be able to just fight an unlimited amount of guards for an unlimited amount of time. The longest amount of time you can fight is 2 minutes. 5. Soundtrack was forgettable. There were a couple interesting additions, but it was mostly uninteresting, and there was too much rehashing of the 2nd game's soundtrack, which was exquisite in its entirety. 6. Like the the previous installments, the final boss battle was way too easy. It's anticlimactic.