One of my favorite game series & my favorite so I bought this without question I heard it was different, but the control scheme is horrible & having to unlock parry are you serious when every Assassin's Creed game you can already do that, I like the skill tree idea but this game is horrible the thing's you can do are great & there are a lot of skills but the combat kills it, I was on the side quest to free a prisoner(only above a hour in) & on my way to the quest 3 guards on horses attack me, I use my shield to block the arrows, I use my bow but before I can charge it I get attacked & I can't pull a guard down off the horse cause guess what I DIDN'T UNLOCK THAT SKILL, so I die, I had to stop playing after that, this is a disgrace to the Assassin's Creed games & the name I hope Valhalla returns to the other games, I'm playing unity & I'm loving every minute of it, there's a big difference, I'm on Xbox so RT & RB to use the power move in origins like really how we gonna do that that's so odd & uncomfortable, like I said the controls are horrible, the things you can do in the game is amazing but like I said the combat ruins it seeing how you'll be fighting more times then not, I actually enjoyed the stealth aspect earlier one, that's way better then the combat & I love me some stealth but the Assassin's Creed combat was always better then the stealth, now they implemented crouching which shoulda been in the game instead of hiding in bushes standing going from bush to bush which can reveal yourself, but why take away the tombs the earlier Assassin's Creed games had, the controls are worse then Assassin's Creed 3 Connor, the reaction time for counters was very slow, the combat reaction in origins is better, I didn't play 3 because of the bad combat but this one is at a ask time low, graphics & stealth & skills & the use of calling your mount & your eagle is great & I'm sure the story is good but what good is that when the main thing about the game is ruined, this is like what Teen Titans use to be before Teen Titans go, I really hope Valhalla behinds the combat to older Assassin's Creed games, I'm just glad I got this very cheap otherwise this would be a waste of 60 Dollars, I still feel it's a waste of the amount of money I spent period, if you like the older Assassin's Creed games(Black flag & brotherhood were the best that I've played, currently on Unity then gonna play syndicate) stick to the old ones but everybody is different, this plays more like some random action game & not an Assassin's Creed game, I'll take liberation on Ps Vita over this, which wasn't bad, I'd take even the PSP Assassin's Creed game, I'm a creature of habit cause at least with a habit you know what you gonna get & like they say if it ain't broke don't fix it, only thing that ruined anything was bugs, I seen some of syndicate & the two protagonist idea is very original & different in a Assassin's Creed idea I love it, I love what I seen so far, I ordered Odyssey which is suppose to be here any day now but hopefully that is better then this, it's not even the fact that I wasted money it's the fact that they ruined a very perfect game series, Ubisoft us my favorite game studio, from Splinter cell, to ghost recon to watch dogs to rainbow six to the division to the Crew they have made a lot of my favorite games but this is a HUGE HUGE disappointment, the Egyptian idea is great but the combat shoulda stayed the same just with a skill tree implemented into the game as well as using the eagle & things like that, if your a true fan of the older(original altaรฏr) series especially ezio then don't even waste your time.