As unfair as it may sound to start a review of a game by laying into its protagonist, Ezio is sorely missed here. Second, the previous instalment in the franchise, Revelations, saw the end of tenure for one of the most compelling, likable and engaging protagonists in the gaming medium: Ezio Auditore da Firenze. First off, the action leaves Renaissance Europe and heads to North America in the 1700s, dumping the rooftop playgrounds of Florence, Rome and Istanbul in favour of the wide-open American frontier and the (slightly) less wide streets of colonial Boston and New York. The stakes for Assassin's Creed 3, though, are higher than in previous years. So it feels right to tip one's hat to the developers, given that these games now appear on an annual basis. That's why they're so easy to take for granted.Įvery returning fan knows that the moment they boot up the latest entry in Ubisoft's open world epic that follows the centuries-spanning war between the Assassins and the Templars, they'll be greeted with a window into a bygone age, complete with historically accurate landscapes and characters stepping straight out of history. It's worth pointing all of this out because, by now, aching beauty and painstaking attention to historic detail – both visual and temporal – have become calling cards of the Assassin's Creed series. And not only is the world encased in Assassin's Creed 3 an intricately presented breathtaking marvel to behold, it's age and region specific too. It was like something out of a Terence Malik film. In the brief moment I hurtled through the trees towards my destination, I gazed across a pine forest expanse, over a rock-encrusted river that spilled into a glistening lake by way of a waterfall dropping off a sheer cliff face. This is because once one steps back and bothers to survey the game's environment, one can't help but be bowled over. I caution against a blinkered approach – stop and take in the view sometime.
This is a thought that occurred to me about 10 hours in as I piloted the franchise's newest protagonist through a sun-dappled forest glade en route to completing my latest side mission.īecause Assassin's Creed 3 is bursting with activities, my attention to detail had shrunken somewhat. O ne has to be careful of taking the beauty in Assassin's Creed 3 for granted.
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