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Assassin’s Creed III Review

by increasing your multiplayer
level or completing challenges.
Advancement also earns a
player in-game currency and
your combination of character
level and currency available
allows abilities, gadgets and
kill streak rewards to be
unlocked for use in-game.
Impatient
players
can
purchase these items outright
through micro-transactions
if they lack the patience to
reach the required level count
and funds. This can lead to a
small amount of imbalance if
you are facing off against far
better equipped opponents,
but ultimately it does not take
too long to unlock a decent
set of tools the old fashioned way and, when you made to us in the run-up to release. A robust
get down to it, this is a game that rewards player single player story forms the core of the game
skill far more than ability sets.
and is supported by a veritable bounty of sidemissions and sandbox fun. Top this off with an
All-in-all, the multiplayer package is an entertaining interesting and gripping multiplayer mode and
experience that rewards skillful play with constant you find yourself with a game in which you can
advancement options that keep you playing to happily sink countless hours into before getting
unlock the next exciting tool in the assassin’s anywhere close to 100% completion. A few bugs,
arsenal. The simultaneous feeling of being both a less exciting main protagonist and a tutorial that
the cat and the mouse makes the free-for-all seems to last forever hold things back somewhat,
games the highlight of the experience but other but there is enough content here to keep almost
game modes have their benefits too. The only real anyone entertained.
issue is that whilst you can choose between joining
Ross D. Brown
free-for-all or team-based games you can only set
a ‘preference’ of what subtype you want to play,
Assassin’s Creed III
so often find yourself in one of your less favoured
game types when connecting.
Scored: 8.5 out 10
Overall, Assassin’s Creed III is a great experience
that lives up to most of the promises Ubisoft
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