Rowan King

Had the potential to be such a good game but the AI combat balance is so far off it made for a very frustrating play. Often you are fighting a fort filled with 20 soldiers who are similar level to you, this in itself is already hard as they take next to no damage yet can inflict crushing blows to you, despite the level similarity, then throw in 2/3 bounty hunters who are near impossible to kill. This led to hours repeating the same missions which is very boring. I don’t know if its my controller, but I have never had an issue like this before. In combat I would be clicking to block attacks, I get special attacks you can’t block, but my character wouldn’t block anything at all then receive 2/3 quick hits and die which I am sure you can imagine led to a lot of shouting which I am not proud of. The combat is the main issue, as it is so unbalanced it is actually ridiculous it made me uninstall the game ( I know that doesn’t mean much to people or Ubisoft but thought I’d share it). I get a game is meant to be challenging and fun but this was going beyond both of those and the only bits I actually enjoyed was picking responses to conversations that would create the most entertaining responses. The travel times were ridiculous and often places didn’t have ports or synchronisation spots so it meant I had to spend ages travelling to places. Apart from that it could have been a great game as I thought it looked good, some polishing up could have helped but all in all it looked decent and the character development wasn’t perfect but it was still easy to follow but the two biggest weaknesses of this game are the two biggest components of the AC franchise, massive shame to be fair.