Really disappointed with this game. The fact that it came out barely a year after Origins doesn’t help either. It’s not about Assassins vs Templars anymore. The game is set hundred of years before the formation of the brotherhood. At least they stayed “coherent” and didn’t implemented the hidden blade in the game. But why call it Assassin’s Creed then ?
The map is really huge, but maybe too huge, considering there is nothing really interesting to do. There’s a lot of side quests but quantity over quality. They are boring and generic. You always do the same thing. The game feels repetitive. The voice acting is really bad. Animations are bad. There’s almost no facial animation. Lot of technical issues on Xbox one. The framerate isn’t constant and the game often freeze. The story is uninteresting and the way its seperated in 3 segments doesn’t help create a cohesive plot. The endings, notably the Kosmos one and the Atlantis one were pretty “wtf”.
The present now is just useless. Just cut it out. And that’s coming from a big fan of the franchise who kept complaining because he wanted the present to be back. I was glad it was back in Origins, but seeing what you did with it in Odyssey, I’d rather you just cut it out and remove it from future games at this point.
The game feels so unrealistic. I hate the RPG element. You shoot a guy in the head with your arrow and he loses somewhere around 15 % of his health, because he his higher level than you. The grinding you have to go through in order to level up and progress in the story takes all the pleasure away, it feels like a chore.
The way your character moves around when fighting, unrealistic and weird. Enemies are damage sponges. I also HATED all the supernatural stuff. All those mythical monsters that you fight, it turned me off. I preferred when the First Civilisation and their artifact were only hinted, like in the older games. Flaming swords and all, turn off also.
I don’t like the looting. Most of all, I’m sick and tired of those cheated abilities you can unlock over the course of the game. The one where you crouch and become invisible. The one where you jump from any height and receive no damage, the one where you kill someone unnoticed and his body vanish. How is this suppose to be fun ? It takes all the immersion away. Having the liberty of choice in the story doesn’t make sense, as your suppose to “experience story as it happened”. Greece is beautiful but the cities all look the same. Is miss that in Assassin’S Creed I and II, you had different cities and they all felt different. Florence, Venice, Forli, Monteriggioni and San Gimignano all looked and felt different. Each city had it’s own color filter, it’s own memorable music and ambiance. It was great. I miss that in the new Assassin’S Creed games. That variety is gone. And yeah the ambiance music is almost non existant, you just roam around without any track most of the time, it’s boring.
The experience feels rushed. Horse riding is boring. It needs more love. Why don’t you inspire yourself from Red Dead Redemption 2 ? This game is a pure joy to play and the horse riding is just marvelous. For the stealth part, why don’t you inspire yourself from Metal Gear Solid V ? It would be so good. The hunting is bad. You should inspire yourself from Assassin’S Creed III, or again, Red Dead Redemption 2.
What I’d like from a future AC game is a realistic experience, like the earlier games. That means no more RPG. No more flaming swords and mythical demons. When you do an headshot with a bow, that’s an instant kill. When you assassinate someone with the hidden blade, that’s an instant kill as well. No more looting. I’d like the gameplay from the classic Assassin’S Creed to be back. The puppeteer controls, where each body part is linked to a button or “key”. Where you can take out and sheathe your weapons whenever you want. When you push the joystick, you walk, when you press a button you jog, and when you press another you run. That, combined with the latest innovations; The ability to remove your hood whenever you want, the stealth approach, a good gameplay. An Assassin vs Templar story, an interesting one at that, memorable characters, different cities with different ambiances. For the setting I’d like to go back medieval, fight “real” Templars. I’d like to go to Persia, in Alamut, or just anywhere where the Assassins where as organised as in Masyaf. See, that’s one of the things I miss from Assassin’s Creed I and Unity. An organized brotherhood. Where you’re just an Assassin among many. A blade in the crowd. All the philosophizing with your targets and your Mentor. I want the parkour to be back. And I don’t want annual release. Take 2, 3, maybe 4 years between releases. Make something good.


