Assassin's Creed 3 (Xbox 360)(2CD)

Often find that amazon game reviews are often more helpful when buying a game than the reviews done by the people actually paid to do them, so hear goes my 1st 1.IHave been a big assassins creed fan right from the 1st game, however I found they got boring, tedious and repetitive as the series went on with me not even completing the brotherhood and failing to buy revelations, liked the plot and different time setting that the 3rd brought. Have over 10 hours play time already and 1 word....WOW.The new American civil war setting is a stark contrast from the likes of Rome in the previous games but bring does not disappoint.The countryside 'frontier' is vast and a lot of fun, the tree running feature is very smooth and a lot of fun, stalking a bunch of redcoats by running across the treeline above them never gets old.The graphics and level of detail in the series has always been superb but AC3 is truly amazing.iv noticed small things that I would never have noticed in any other games, like the way you can see human and animal breath in the cold weather, how the shadows of the building move along the ground with the movement of the sun and moon overhead thoroughout the day.The water and detail of buildings is the best iv ever seen in any gameThe cities feel truly alive and are a lot of fun just to explore and get chased around by the redcoats.the naval missions where you control a boat are a lot of fun also, the I have ben playing for over 10 hours and only explored 23% of the map and completed 20% of the game, and only a fraction of the total storyline, which I have to say seems to be the best and richest of the entire series so far. I could talk for hours of how impressed iv been with this game already but I want to get back playing it instead. best of the series so far and well worth a purchase!!

Don`t be put off by the Negative Nancies who complain it`s not a good AC game...Assassins Creed 3 takes all the previous AC titles, looks hard at them and slaps them back on their dusty shelf!It is WAY better than previous versions. Why?- The Gameworld is HUGE. Just running around the frontier, flipping through trees, setting snares and hunting wild animals, while diving off trees/waterfalls into rivers and exploring the massive wilderness in general, is incredible. Add the fact you can improve a homestead, trade, indulge in mini games etc.Oh and being able to sail your own warship is incredible! The controls feel just right and the graphics are fantastic!- Graphics are beautiful in this game. One of the most visually impressive games on Xbox 360 to this date. A lot of care and detail has been spent on this game and the new graphics engine really does impress. They really captured the ambiance and atmosphere of the frontier well.- Story is quite compelling and weaves it`s magic like the previous AC titles. The tutorial is not as restrictive as some would make out because it is part of the main story line and not some obvious hand holding 10 minute gimmick. I suspect some people are just not patient and want to be free roaming from the get go.- Controls are for the most part, very intuitive and free flowing. Combat is more enjoyable than previous AC games once you become used to the tweaked system. Free running can be a bit twitchy at times but still very smooth and awesome to indulge in. Flipping through tree tops is just FUN.- Game Content is absolutely huge! much more than any previous AC titles and at times this game feels almost like playing an RPG.Kudos to the Developers for evolving the AC series. Some days I just like to roam the snowy frontier and manage my homestead..Assassins Creed 3 is a phenomenal game. It has everything for Action Junkies and RPG`ers alike, only limited by the Gamers imagination.A definite Game of the Year for me. Roll on AC4...

It is important that AC is 3 in this franchise. When playing in this huge open world vast lands you will feel almost like it is like virtual country club. Spanning such timelines with character variations of different plotlines and the huge simulation input means that this will be well remembered. To be hooded and skilled in your weapon of choose will mean you are just some 'nobody', yet you are tasked with mammoth challenge of pursuing your quest to ensure righteousness is achieved throughout. Excellent work from Ubisoft once again. Thanks

May contain Spoilers.Assassin's Creed 3 is an amazing 3rd person action, adventure, shooter.It is set in Coloniel America, in the first sequence you are in Boston, in sequence 3 you unlock the Frontier, in sequence 7 you unlock New York. This is my first Assassin's Creed game and it is amazing. The Graphics are amazing I loved it the second I started Playing. For the first three Sepuences you are Connor's dad ,Haytham Kenway, and the first three sequences wasn't as good as the rest but it was still entertaining. After I had finished the first 3 sequences the game started to get a lot better. The main story is long and action packed. After You have finished the story there would still be a wide range of side missions such as Liberation missions, Homestead Missions, Naval missions, Navel Locations (Captian Kidds Treasure Hunt) and Privateer Contracts. There is also a wide range of Collectibles such as Almanac Pages (Find 4 pages of a Volume and unlock the whole Volume)Peg Leg Trinkets (Find a certain amount and get a Navel Location from Peg Leg) and treasure Chests (open and get crafting Recipies or Money or even both! Ther are 4 clubs (Hunting Society, Frontiersman, Boston Brawlers and the Thief Club)in the game and to become a member you have to do a little bit of the thing they are about

I've just spent seven days with this, and it has it's good points, but I thought I'd concentrate on the negative, if you paid full price you should get your money's worth.The main character's delivery is so tedious, I can only guess it was recorded in isolation and read off cards, fortunately most of it is cut-scene which you can skip. The sound levels are all over the place too, I can't make out half of what's said without risking being deafened the other half of the time.If you love cut scenes this is the game for you, it feels like it was done by a frustrated movie director, personally I like to be involved in the action, but you spend a great deal of time just watching and not doing. The assassin briefings would have been so much better if you could have them on the move as part of the action, not yet another cut scene.The finale chase, tracking down Lee took me hours and was achieved by fluke, rather than planning. This guy has a mind of his own when it comes to deciding what he'll hang on to and where he's going to jump. A chase should be challenging, not frustrating. The running and jumping are the same as the other games, which should be a good thing, but he's constantly bumping into things, turning for no apparent reason, hard to aim at a hand-hold, and really, really annoying.Whoever designed the recipes interface needs a good slap too, trying to scroll through materials and ingredients is tedious, and you always have to start from the top and work pretty much blind - stupid.One of the missions is to hang a painting - and it involves more cut-scenes than action. He appears to be more of a delivery boy (paper, dolls and hair-pieces) in this game than the tank-driving, plane-flying hero of the last game.When you finally get back to the present you'll spend an enjoyable hour or so listening to some mythological drivel, which you can't skip, and endless credits which only goes to show that throwing a few hundred people at a project isn't going to guarantee results. It's full of bugs, people popping into view and popping out, glitches, animals stuck in trees and rocks, and irrelevant notifications. At one point you seem to be able to open doors and walk through, but the for the rest of the game you apparently need a cut scene to go through a door.And on a more serious note all the fun parts of II - Leonardo's discoveries - are missing from this game, the best innovation is the Privateer missions, and there are all too few of them, and they are all pretty much the same also.Free-running is a pain too, the towns are designed with nice big gaps between buildings, and the frontier has routes that go nowhere, and are just for the sake of it, so you just get going, and plop, you've no-where to go.All-in-all if you pay a tenner or so it's okay, but UBISOFT need to stop writing pretentious drivel and make a game, and concentrate on game-play.

The good:- beautifully realised colonial America- smooth freerunning- satisfyingly vicious combat- improved hiding mechanicThe bad:- patchy control mapping- unclear freerunning signposts- awkward combat mappingThe ugly:- boring protagonist- contrived plot- tutorial lasts 3-5 hours - way too longLet's start with the great things about this game. If you want to stop reading after that, then you haven't got to wade through the numerous negatives to get here.Improvements are pretty practical, and very welcome. The ability to crouch in long grass/bushes is long overdue, as is the ability to hover at the edge of a wall/surface for a kind of 3rd-person tactical view. Your assassin can also whistle whilst in hiding to distract guards away from key locations, and in general it all feels a bit more tactical than before.Pre-Independence America is also absolutely gorgeous; wide sunlit roads in Boston, fields of grass glowing in the sunset, the vast, snow-filled frontier. This game looks amazing. Fling yourself from tree to tree (if you're like me, you're singing Monty Python's lumberjack song right now), branch to branch, cliff to cliff, in the most organic freerunning mechanic yet. It's also huge - a big sandbox playground to practice your parkour to your heart's content.Combat is also satisfyingly visceral and punchy, though not without its flaws. We'll get to those later. In general, when it works, combat is a lot of fun and allows Connor to flow from one enemy to the next as a killing machine. Badassery, pure and simple. And a lot of fun.The thing about the Assassin's Creed games though, is that each game's link to the Creed itself (essentially boils down to: stop the evil templars) gets more and more tenuous.Altair was born and raised to be an assassin at a time when assassins worked openly (Crusade-era Jerusalem). His whole life is dedicated to the Creed and to fighting the Templar / Crusader threat. Having him as an assassin makes a lot of sense. He's also an unapologetic badass, which makes him awfully appealing as a protagonist.Ezio....happens to be a very athletic young man who becomes an assassin almost by accident, following the deaths of some of his family members. It can still make sense though, given that the Ezio storyline in AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations focus on Ezio being surrounded by this fraternity of assassins who first guide him, and then allow themselves to be led by him as he matures to Master Assassin. He's also the right balance between charming and driven - again making him a pleasure to play.Connor....makes no sense. He's withdrawn, his voice-actor doesn't seem to understand what "inflection" means, and whilst it's an absolute delight to hear the Iroquois languages (re: Native American) spoken with remarkable fluency, Connor is ultimately really, really boring. I understand that the devs wanted him to not take sides in the Revolution but instead look to his own interests, that's fine, but he has nothing interesting to say, no hook for the player.And that is where AC3 really falls down. As you go through the AC series, the storyline also gets more and more ridiculous. I'm perfectly willing to buy into the idea of a parallel fight in the past (Desmond in the Animus) and the present (Assassin's Order trying to prevent global destruction caused by a Templar satellite launch) - hell, it's not the most ludicrous storyline out there and frankly I find it all part of the fun of playing the AC series.But the real strength of AC comes from its ancestor storylines - Altair's story, Ezio's story, within the wider framework of Assassins vs Templars. AC3 doesn't have that balance because it doesn't have a protagonist that generates emotional investment. Connor is completely 2-dimensional, emotionally flat and generally uninspired. The conflict built into his nature feels forced - a contrivance necessary to carry the plot. And there is a LOT of plot.That isn't always a bad thing, but in the presumed effort to make this game as accessible to new fans as to existing ones, the "hand-holding" phase is a good 3 to 4 hours long. Compared to AC2, where a half hour in you're climbing buildings and synchronising viewpoints, this feels overly long and again, a contrivance to set the amount of plot exposition necessary to justify Connor's role in all this, given that he's not sufficiently interesting on his own.The game's mechanics and control mapping have also been completely overhauled. Generous reviews paint the new combat controls as similar to Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum / Arkham City. This just isn't true - but would be awesome if it was. The only similarity between the two is that both now use the ABXY buttons, but that's it. Batman's controls are far more streamlined and allow a much more consistent combat flow, moving seamlessly from one enemy to the next. AC3 is fiddly, awkward and takes a lot of getting used to. Not to overuse the adage "if it ain't broke....", but this supposed innovation feels like a step backwards from (in particular) AC:Brotherhood and Revelations, both of whom had excellent combat mapping and freerunning techniques. The game and the player also have to adapt to guns - and combat isn't all bad in AC3. The ability to use enemies as meat shields is hugely entertaining and a great device, but difficult to pull off consistently. When it is successful, there's no feeling like it - if only it wasn't so inconsistent.Freerunning also sees a few modifications - it's now possible to simply run forwards and let the game almost "pick out" the best route - this holds up well in cities, but out on the frontier, trusting the game to pick the route is flawed and often results in falls, deaths and enormous frustrations. Trees are climbable - but not all trees and the game often doesn't make it clear which are and aren't. Same with the cliffs - areas that look completely climbable turn out not to be. It feels arbitrary. That said, the freerunning is generally intuitive and certainly a hell of a lot of fun when Connor gets into his flow, bounding from branch to branch with beautiful-looking animations. All in all though, comparing it even to AC2 (the least intuitive climbing system of the 3 Ezio games), AC3 doesn't hold a candle to previous titles.The naval battles are also a lot of fun - certainly better than the dubious, immersion-breaking "den defense" from AC:Revelations.But it's the messy, frustrating, slow development, patchy combat mechanics and a protagonist almost as boring as the modern-day Desmond Miles that let this title down badly. The only gripe I have with the graphics (and I had the same one with Revelations) is that none of the peripheral characters - Desmond, Rebecca and Shaun - look ANYTHING like their previous iterations. And we know it's possible - Mass Effect in particular is an excellent example of how you can have improved graphical output without sacrificing familiar faces.All in all, the game tries to be stellar but ends up being a mish-mash of beautiful graphics let down by poor implementation. Pre-Declaration America is simply gorgeous - from the deer bounding through the woods as Connor leaps through the trees, to wide-paved cities and easily recognisable famous buildings and figures of Independence-Era America.I still recommend the title, but given its AAA status, it's not worth the full price you'd pay on launch day.

An underrated game in the AC franchise. One of my favourites

Ill keep this quick but true.THE GAME IS AWESOME!!!!.The single player is the main part and it takes ac to new heights because its bigger in terms of scale and features the biggest world in ac to date it also has a beast of an assassin called Connor who has the biggest range of cool s*** to date.For the first time theres also naval battles which are epic in every way and increases the games bang for your buck.The game also has an incredibly large multiplayer component with cool characters and equipment but what separates it apart from your standard call of duty fix is that it requires you to think before you jump into the fray.As well as all that there will be tons of dlc content released so for 20 pounds your getting a great bargain.AC fans will be pumped

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This one gets panned a lot out there. I love it. You get really into the story line. Take your time...enjoy the ride. So many great missions to do and the open world is amazing. Don't listen to what they say out there...give ACIII a go.

Esta 100% ingles con lo cual si no lo tenéis dominado mejor pasad de el, historia muy americana pero interesante no trae dlc's pero igual son una tontería de la cual jamas en la historia paso nada de lo que dicen los ridículos dls's, no hace falta cambiar de disco cada vez uno se instala otro se pone para jugar, destacar que tanto la caja como los discos estaban como nuevos una delicia para colección.

Ottimo venditore. Il prodotto era difettoso ha provveduto a restituire l'importo versato immediatamente senza richiedere riscontro. Cortesi e rapidi nelle risposte. Anche questo è importante quando si compra on line.

Una classico tutto ok