– Customer review on 09/12/2011

This game is a big let-down for my favored playstyle in AC. The best aspects of AC2 and Brotherhood have been cut out - where are the faction missions? Where are the Animus puzzles? Where is 'The Truth'? Where is the city rebuilding (sure, stores open and faction buildings get new banners, but buildings no longer truly get 'rebuilt' due to your input)? Hay bales but no horses - what's that all about? And all the cuts seem to have been made in order to make room for a hideously clunky Den Defense mini-game and the over-hyped but useless bomb crafting (two bomb types are all you ever need). Plus they added in more Desmond storyline - just what we always wanted (sarcasm) - and that part of the game is by far the most annoying part of any AC game - worse even than the first game's Desmond segments. Leonardo is missing (and sorely missed) and has been replaced by the bombmaker, who is well played but his role is small. Ezio's touching love interest in Brotherhood has been replaced by what can only be described as a bland and singularly boring librarian