Peter G (theallianceslayer)

A beta early access game released at full price and unfinished simply due to greed. Look up recent articles, developers pushed this game out and admit it wasn’t finished. Terrible AI. Dry combat, no blood or gore. Sparse and empty game world most of the time. Their praised A Life 2.0 makes Skyrim look advanced as far as AI goes. Can’t believe I paid full price for this crap. It’s unfinished. People praising it are ignorant die hard fans making excuses bc of the war. I’m a consumer. I don’t need to feel bad about the war affecting what’s supposed to be sold as a finished product. It’s total bs and shady business. Never trusting my money with GSC again. You’ll have fun exploring for like 1-2 days then you’ll realize how dry the game is. 100% do not buy this. Gamepass is the only thing keeping reviews decent. If yall had to buy this crap, you’d rate it 1 star too. Completely disgusted with being sold an unfinished mediocre product.

Keeping this game from 5 stars is the lack of blood and gore or viscera, as well as the clunky parkour and a 30 hour story with a small map. Parkour can be very frustrating at times. I expect excellent fluidity from a game like this but it falls short on traversing Baghdad, especially when trying to climb down or jump down. I am however extremely disappointed in the lack of blood in this game, and seeing the exact same 10 or so assassination animations over and over again, with very little blood. Ubisoft needs to stop holding back and make their games for adult audiences. Even avatar frontier of pandora, a Ubisoft game, is rated T for teen yet they have you shooting guns and blowing things up. Dry combat is a huge miss and causes this game in particular to be undeserving of 5 stars. I get that it’s a stealth game, but that’s no excuse for having an almost E for Everyone type of blood effects. Get this game on sale for sure. Despite these cons, I very much enjoyed the game and Basim is my favourite character in Assassin’s Creed. Some good points: This game is one of the most immersive assassins creed games ever created, and I enjoyed using the codex to learn interesting facts and history about the Abassid Caliphate whenever I came upon historical locations. The Round City is a superb location for this series and they nailed it to a T, even though there is nothing left of this city today to compare it to, and they used maps and scholar work to design the city. I felt transported back in time more than I did in Odyssey and Valhalla. I felt more immersed in Ancient Baghdad than I was in Greece or England in the former games. A truly amazing work of art. Just add blood and gore and stop making these games for teenagers, all your original fans are grown up now and we expect better than the past. I wouldn’t rate any assassins creed game 5 stars tbh because of things like wokeism or in this case holding back on the blood so much. But most of their games get a 4 or 4.5 from me.