Assassin's Creed III

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  1. Ezio1459
    Sep 1, 2023
    7
    感觉这一代的创作者，好像出现了意见分歧，创作方向莫名其妙
  2. samtoy3
    Aug 30, 2023
    5
    Oyunun ilk 3 sekansı tapınakçı babayı oynuyoruz ve genel olarak oyunu öğretme kısmı fakat sıkıcı değil. 4. Sekansta ana karakter olan assassin oğula geçiyoruz ve oyun başlıyor. Oyun çok buglı, kötü yazılmış bir hikaye ve kötü yazılmış karakterlerle tam bir zaman kaybı. O kadar çok bug varki. Karakter takılmaları, npclerin çıldırması, diyalogların tutmaması, saçma sapan yerlere takılmalar,Oyunun ilk 3 sekansı tapınakçı babayı oynuyoruz ve genel olarak oyunu öğretme kısmı fakat sıkıcı değil. 4. Sekansta ana karakter olan assassin oğula geçiyoruz ve oyun başlıyor. Oyun çok buglı, kötü yazılmış bir hikaye ve kötü yazılmış karakterlerle tam bir zaman kaybı. O kadar çok bug varki. Karakter takılmaları, npclerin çıldırması, diyalogların tutmaması, saçma sapan yerlere takılmalar, final sahnesinde seslendirme girmiyor sadece altyazı geliyor. Ana karakter tam bir dallama, babası daha yazılmış. Baba oğul fightı da kötü olmuş. Ve oyun gereksiz bir şekilde uzatılmış. Ticaret sistemide kötü, kostümler, tasarımlar da kötü. Gemi görevleri ve av görevleri hariç iyi birşey yok oyunda. Birde Benjamin Franklin, G.Washington gibi tarihi karakterler de oyunda bulunuyor. 5/10… Expand
  3. turgaysenturk
    Aug 12, 2023
    6
    Assassin's Creed 3 falls among the weaker entries in the series for me. While the new gameplay brought some fun, the story failed to capture my interest. I also didn't connect with Connor, the protagonist.
  4. levoxyl
    Aug 1, 2023
    5
    Lots of controls changed, uncomfortable for gameplay, annoying fighting ,annoying parkour . In general ,pretty bad compared to the other games
  5. Naked_Snakee
    Jul 22, 2023
    6
    Just text (crutch) to save the game to the list. Such things. Maybe I'll do a review later.
  6. Andrei20
    Dec 18, 2022
    5
    Easily one of the worst AC games, the story is pretty good but the pacing is downright horrendous, the combat is bad, the modern day missions are obnoxious.
  7. EKYR
    Nov 21, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. it is another ac game with great graphics bad gameplay dumb enemy ai
    story is actually ok and i rmb exactly one thing which is haytham and connors relationship, but still its fking wack at times and i cannot see myself replaying it or ever thinking about it again    … Expand
  8. hileger
    Oct 15, 2022
    7
    Хули тут так мало , один из лучший геймплеев из отсасинов (лучший юнити ) сюжет затягивает но глав персонаж еблан и раздражает
  9. Zallen
    Sep 9, 2022
    7
    Игра приносит новую арку с потомками рода ассасина пирата и заканчивает историю Дезмонда. Сюжет вроде по началу и кажется любопытным с небольшим "ВОТ ЭТО ПОВОРОТом", но в итоге выливается в максимальную пресноту. Зато игра дает новые фишечки, которые не плохо освежают геймплей после серии игр с Эцио. А так в целом тот же бездушный конвейерный ассасин.
    7мь топоров из 10ти.    Игра приносит новую арку с потомками рода ассасина пирата и заканчивает историю Дезмонда. Сюжет вроде по началу и кажется любопытным с небольшим "ВОТ ЭТО ПОВОРОТом", но в итоге выливается в максимальную пресноту. Зато игра дает новые фишечки, которые не плохо освежают геймплей после серии игр с Эцио. А так в целом тот же бездушный конвейерный ассасин.
    7мь топоров из 10ти.
  10. dr-kenobi
    Sep 7, 2022
    6
    The setting and the American vibes are alright, but omg how bad is storytelling behind Connor, it's one of the worst main characters of the series ever.
  11. V7q
    Jun 19, 2022
    7
    I recommend playing and familiarizing yourself with this game. I had fun playing this game.
  12. Demon2017
    Jun 18, 2022
    7
    Одна из самых недооценённых частей. Игра далеко не идеальная: в ней слабая основная сюжетная линия, ужаснейшая концовка, слишком простой геймплей, но в целом, игра не плохая. В ней крутые доп. миссии, очень красивые анимации и Хейтем Кэнуей.Одна из самых недооценённых частей. Игра далеко не идеальная: в ней слабая основная сюжетная линия, ужаснейшая концовка, слишком простой геймплей, но в целом, игра не плохая. В ней крутые доп. миссии, очень красивые анимации и Хейтем Кэнуей.
  13. Izoeros
    Apr 28, 2022
    5
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  14. ZzTopNemesis
    Mar 1, 2022
    6
    Score: 6.4

    This was an okay game, the story and setting was fun but a stepdown after Ezio, however it would be hard to follow up a triology... It would always be less successfull, their hope would be to make another triology or sequel for Connor but they decided not to. In this game they had some more systems, including hunting, they were fun but i never touched them willingly. An    Score: 6.4

    This was an okay game, the story and setting was fun but a stepdown after Ezio, however it would be hard to follow up a triology... It would always be less successfull, their hope would be to make another triology or sequel for Connor but they decided not to.

    In this game they had some more systems, including hunting, they were fun but i never touched them willingly.

    An ok game, not a Good game for me.    … Expand
  15. chernandez31
    Feb 24, 2022
    7
    Pretty good game but nothing great. The setting and historical characters/places were very interesting.
  16. penmumble
    Feb 21, 2022
    7
    I really enjoyed this game; the mechanics are a lot more refined than previous games, the environment is fresh, and the time period of the American Revolution is fascinating and really fun to explore. I really liked Connor as the protagonist, and the father-son dynamic of this game was what really caught my attention. It's something AC hasn't done before or since, so their relationship wasI really enjoyed this game; the mechanics are a lot more refined than previous games, the environment is fresh, and the time period of the American Revolution is fascinating and really fun to explore. I really liked Connor as the protagonist, and the father-son dynamic of this game was what really caught my attention. It's something AC hasn't done before or since, so their relationship was what really sold this game for me.… Expand
  17. MetalRobot69
    Feb 11, 2022
    7
    The old but gold AC.

    You feel like an assassin, you can move like an assassin, you can even kill in stealth a person in the middle of the crowd, and walk away unnoticed, your character is simply badass as **** The story is good, it is from a time we thought the saga would have a deserving end, but nowadays Ubisoft doesn't wanna end the story of its favorite cash cow, even if the    The old but gold AC.

    You feel like an assassin, you can move like an assassin, you can even kill in stealth a person in the middle of the crowd, and walk away unnoticed, your character is simply badass as ****

    The story is good, it is from a time we thought the saga would have a deserving end, but nowadays Ubisoft doesn't wanna end the story of its favorite cash cow, even if the story feels bad. So in AC III both the present and past stories were good.

    The combat is just as badass as the MC assassins skills, in a nutshell, if you press the right button at the right time (and the window is large as hell) you are a God, you can dodge every attack, dodge even bullets, counter every attack and kill every guard with a press of a button, you can do that so much that literally, piles of corpse accumulate over the ground if the guards call reinforcements in the streets. It is really a trivial combat system but I can't deny it is fun    … Expand
  18. Kotofon
    Feb 2, 2022
    7
    События американской революции затронули нового ассасина. Этот человек вырос с Мохавском племени, но у его потомка есть для него задача — вспомнить все события 1753-1783 годов. Assassin’s Creed III в слешере от третьего лица рассказывает нам трагическую судьбу американского народа, которому хотели привить демократию с элементами тирании. В игре мы будем единственным ассасином, и всеСобытия американской революции затронули нового ассасина. Этот человек вырос с Мохавском племени, но у его потомка есть для него задача — вспомнить все события 1753-1783 годов. Assassin’s Creed III в слешере от третьего лица рассказывает нам трагическую судьбу американского народа, которому хотели привить демократию с элементами тирании. В игре мы будем единственным ассасином, и все события вокруг нас перевернут будущий мир с ног на голову.… Expand
  19. TheBasicReviews
    Jan 27, 2022
    5
    Story: 50/100
    Gameplay: 50/100
    Graphics: 70/100
    Music/Soundtrack: 80/100
    Main Character(s): 60/100
    Side Characters: 30/100
    Regular Enemies: 40/100
    Bosses/Boss fights: 50/100
    World/Level Design: 70/100
    Playability (Bugs and optimization after patches): 100/100
    Would I Play It Again?: Nah
    Where Does It Rank In My Top 500 Video Games of All Time List?: 200

    Rating: 10/100
  20. moonlaba
    Jan 17, 2022
    7
    전투시스템은 확실히 3편에서 정점이었던것 같다. 여러 무기를 고유의 개성을 살려서 구현했고 단순히 반격 암살로 쉬웠던 2편의 전투를 완벽하게 탈피했었다. 다만 극을 이끌고 가야되는 스토리텔링이 너무 아쉽다. 이 이후로 스토리가 좋았던 적이 없는듯..
  21. teratoma666
    Dec 25, 2021
    5
    Awful pacing, generic AC gameplay and superficial mechanics. The only saving grace is the decent story with a great character.
  22. vova22379
    Dec 18, 2021
    5
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  23. petrkozak13
    Dec 13, 2021
    7
    I could never finish this one AC game as I just got bored with it after some time. But it's not a bad game by any means though.
  24. jarvitom
    Nov 15, 2021
    7
    The gameplay was pretty good but it was really hard to accept this USA theme after Ezio
  25. Bushido95
    Sep 27, 2021
    7
    Смешанные чувства само собой, но мне больше понравилось чем нет.
    Я бы хотел выделить один момент, который как мне кажется был сделан хорошо и реально с душой это собственное поселение в котором просто приятно находится, общаться и помогать жителям это и правда было очень атмосферно и только из-за этого накидываю 1 балл.    Смешанные чувства само собой, но мне больше понравилось чем нет.
    Я бы хотел выделить один момент, который как мне кажется был сделан хорошо и реально с душой это собственное поселение в котором просто приятно находится, общаться и помогать жителям это и правда было очень атмосферно и только из-за этого накидываю 1 балл.
  26. rezo_21
    Sep 18, 2021
    7
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  27. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    7
    The best combat system in the history of the series, a great time to explore, a nascent america
  28. ORHUN
    Aug 4, 2021
    7
    oyun gayet güzel kimse sevmesede ben beğendim Oyun dünyasının nerdeyse en iyi başkötüsüne sahip bir oyun grafikler açısından günümüzde remasteredında pek fark olmasada güzel grafiklere sahip bir oyun connor da iyi bir karakter ticaret yapabildiğin geliştirebildiğin bir oyun olmuş düşmanlarla savaşmak açısından ac 2 oyunundan sonra iyi bir dövüşme yapısına sahip hikaye desen güzeloyun gayet güzel kimse sevmesede ben beğendim Oyun dünyasının nerdeyse en iyi başkötüsüne sahip bir oyun grafikler açısından günümüzde remasteredında pek fark olmasada güzel grafiklere sahip bir oyun connor da iyi bir karakter ticaret yapabildiğin geliştirebildiğin bir oyun olmuş düşmanlarla savaşmak açısından ac 2 oyunundan sonra iyi bir dövüşme yapısına sahip hikaye desen güzel kızıldereliller ve amerika taihini iyi bir şekilde anlatılmış kah connor ın küçüklüğüne dönüp görevler yapmamız da güzel olmuş desmond'a güzel bir final yaptırmayan bir oyun ama dediğim gibi Haytham Kenway muhteşem bir karakter olmuş.… Expand
  29. cezar88augusto
    Jul 9, 2021
    7
    I remember when I played this game, there was a significant evolution in graphics in comparison to the previous versions. I may being injuste, but according to my memory the history was not so envolved like the AC 2 and AC Brotherhood.
  30. FRIST_008
    Jun 14, 2021
    7
    вообще игра на 8-ку, так как скачок по сравнению со второй части тут большой, но блин... длс вылетают, одно даже пройти невозможно из-за этого. Основной сюжет так же работает не везде стабильно, игру делали в попытах и даже с переносами получился сырой продукт, который не удосужились починитьвообще игра на 8-ку, так как скачок по сравнению со второй части тут большой, но блин... длс вылетают, одно даже пройти невозможно из-за этого. Основной сюжет так же работает не везде стабильно, игру делали в попытах и даже с переносами получился сырой продукт, который не удосужились починить
  31. Agrecolico
    Jun 13, 2021
    7
    Muito bom o Jogo para o seu momento,A mecânica nesse jogo foi umas das melhores em todos o seus outros jogos
    Com dublagem adicional brasileira,Mesmo sendo horrível A Ubi melhorou no jogo seguinte.
    História boa,mais Deveria ser mais explorado o Haytham
  32. sallamayan
    Jun 1, 2021
    6
    I could not feel much of a story in this game. There's always something in between. Irrational missions, go kill him. Ridiculous tasks like listen to him, follow him, protect him make the game pointless. If the story could only be told one way or another, I could feel myself in the game. The game makes you feel like you are really fighting when you are at war. I liked the fightingI could not feel much of a story in this game. There's always something in between. Irrational missions, go kill him. Ridiculous tasks like listen to him, follow him, protect him make the game pointless. If the story could only be told one way or another, I could feel myself in the game. The game makes you feel like you are really fighting when you are at war. I liked the fighting mechanics. Sorry for my bad English, I am a student.… Expand
  33. dastankz
    May 23, 2021
    5
    бұл не? мен мұны неге ойнадым? үндістер шынымен өкінішті, бірақ басты кейіпкер мен оқиға қорқынышты
  34. JohnoDeruno
    May 23, 2021
    6
    Attention: That's just my opinion!

    Assassin's Creed III - A game that has a lot of bugs on the PC version, I don't know if it's just me because I was playing a fairly old version and there were such bugs that prevented me from playing the game, and I wondered why the Ubisoft company? remade Assassin's Creeed III Remastered. Now, in terms of the plot of the game itself, the story    Attention: That's just my opinion!

    Assassin's Creed III - A game that has a lot of bugs on the PC version, I don't know if it's just me because I was playing a fairly old version and there were such bugs that prevented me from playing the game, and I wondered why the Ubisoft company? remade Assassin's Creeed III Remastered.

    Now, in terms of the plot of the game itself, the story itself is really engaging and interesting, but quite very short. The whole restored atmosphere looks quite brilliant and interesting to name that 17th - 18th century (I don't know). Now when it comes to the level design of the game itself to me personally it seems pretty short and uninteresting I mean the missions of the story which were just very similar and not very interesting because the goal of the story was revenge. The missions themselves were very similar with only a few locations different as we fought in the imagined civil war, fought in the ocean, followed and listened, and fought against the English. We didn’t do much, personally I didn’t really feel that parkour style and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, very little. Side itself and other missions, I didn’t really try them, but I don’t think they’re the best, I don’t think there felt those parkour and what puzzles.

    So in my opinion about this game I'm not at all very happy due to the many bugs in the game the game itself is really great, but the worst thing like the other Assassin's Creed Series, most didn't like the fact that the game went too fast and I didn't feel any impression in the game. I would dedicate 6/10 to this game.    … Expand
  35. GordFrenk
    May 11, 2021
    6
    6/10
    Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
  36. FredGner
    May 5, 2021
    6
    The first part with Haytham is really good, he's a charismatic character with a memorable story. Until I got into Connor's part. Everything after Haytham goes downhill. You now got a frustratingly annoying protagonist , 1d characters, empty world, combat mechanic is OP and wastes the purpose of stealth (you can kill half of Boston's population with this combat), the story isn't memorable.The first part with Haytham is really good, he's a charismatic character with a memorable story. Until I got into Connor's part. Everything after Haytham goes downhill. You now got a frustratingly annoying protagonist , 1d characters, empty world, combat mechanic is OP and wastes the purpose of stealth (you can kill half of Boston's population with this combat), the story isn't memorable. A really inferior game to its sequels and prequels,… Expand
  37. Zeyon88
    Mar 17, 2021
    7
    Story: 7/10
    The Way story is given: 14/20
    Gameplay: 22/30 Design: 8/10 Feelings left after playing: 14/20 Playability(Bugs and optimization): 8/10 AVARAGE: 73/100 Even though the Ubisoft team worked really hard on this game, the story was a little bit short and Connor was a character who is hard to have a connection. There were some improvements in the gameplay but they were not    Story: 7/10
    The Way story is given: 14/20
    Gameplay: 22/30
    Design: 8/10
    Feelings left after playing: 14/20
    Playability(Bugs and optimization): 8/10

    AVARAGE: 73/100

    Even though the Ubisoft team worked really hard on this game, the story was a little bit short and Connor was a character who is hard to have a connection. There were some improvements in the gameplay but they were not huge changes except the "sea war" which has been used by AC4 later.    … Expand
  38. tufekciero
    Mar 12, 2021
    7
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  39. ACgames
    Feb 19, 2021
    5
    Overall: It might be one of my most hated AC games. Only reason i play these games is going back in time, i absolutely don't care about this modern day nonsense. All these Desmond missions almost made me quit. Now, when i bought it i was like, what's with all the hate? New York in 1783? Hell yeah. But then i started playing it and it was just awful. It takes about 6 to 7 hours ofOverall: It might be one of my most hated AC games. Only reason i play these games is going back in time, i absolutely don't care about this modern day nonsense. All these Desmond missions almost made me quit. Now, when i bought it i was like, what's with all the hate? New York in 1783? Hell yeah. But then i started playing it and it was just awful. It takes about 6 to 7 hours of absolutely most boring missions in history of video games until you get to play as actual main character of this game. This is just crazy. And when you finally get to play as main character, the game doesn't get that much more interesting. It gets better, sure. But overall all the locations are pretty boring and empty.
    Ranking: I don't like it.    … Expand
  40. Cz3rw0ny
    Feb 9, 2021
    7
    It was not as good as AC1 and AC2, however it was an enjoyable experience. 7/10
  41. Torgall
    Dec 12, 2020
    5
    After wonderful games with Ezio, the Assasin's Creed III is big step back for me. I liked a little bit different weapon styles for Connor, but he is simply bland and uninteresting. Today I can't even remember single thing about him or the plot in this game.
  42. phantlower
    Nov 25, 2020
    7
    Orta dereceli bir hikaye ama muazzam bir villian ve karakter anlatımı.ve oyundaki atmosferde fena değil :D
  43. mik05
    Nov 15, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well i have to say that: the game isn't at the level of the previous Assassin's Creed games. But the game is very good for someone wants to play just for fun. The story is beautiful to me. The development of Connor is very well told. From literally his childhood, to becoming the mentor of the American Brotherhood. But this game has flaws, too. The parkour has been simplified too much to me; the buildings are too low and sometimes the wide space between buildings is too high. I'll put 8 if you'll fix the PC version, which is unplayable. For the rest is a good game… Expand
  44. f1o_o1f
    May 10, 2020
    7
    It was the first AC I ever played and I generally enjoyed myself.
    However it's got loads of bugs and is very easy (I guess the bugs make it somewhat difficult to complete while staying sane?)
  45. r03vg
    Apr 17, 2020
    7
    Игра кажется недоделанной: недосказанность в сюжетной компании, однообразные города... Эпичные битвы из трейлера не так уж и масштабны. Многочисленная армия врага состоит из обычных статистов с двумя анимациями.
  46. PanMrkvicka
    Apr 13, 2020
    5
    I would love to give this more score but sadly its just so broken. The story is fine i enjoyed it its not bad but not spectacular either, the animus sequences are surprisignly pretty good in this AC and Connor as well. Gameplay is also fine yet simplistic. Buying weapons and gear is worthless and has little to no impact on the game. MIllions of bugs and gliches that break the game and itI would love to give this more score but sadly its just so broken. The story is fine i enjoyed it its not bad but not spectacular either, the animus sequences are surprisignly pretty good in this AC and Connor as well. Gameplay is also fine yet simplistic. Buying weapons and gear is worthless and has little to no impact on the game. MIllions of bugs and gliches that break the game and it constantly crashes. Fast travel points objectives and collectibles dissappear from the map all the time its so annoying. Kid sequences as Connor were boring but i have no problem with Connor as protagonist he was fine. Naval missions were a lot of fun. No final boss which was dissapointing. Millions of boring fetch quests. It could have been great and I loved the setting but sadly isnt. Its worth playing for the story at least if you played other AC games.… Expand
  47. GraysonUA
    Mar 31, 2020
    7
    Ну досить перероблений геймплей, багато нових дрібниць, бої швидші і драйвовіші, морський контент, логічне покращення картинки, але тут уже немає крутої архітектури, власне через місце подій, сюжет не такий цікавий, як в минулих частинах. Оцінка - 7.Ну досить перероблений геймплей, багато нових дрібниць, бої швидші і драйвовіші, морський контент, логічне покращення картинки, але тут уже немає крутої архітектури, власне через місце подій, сюжет не такий цікавий, як в минулих частинах. Оцінка - 7.
  48. Shimmeywill
    Feb 20, 2020
    5
    A decent open world game with lackluster story and mindless gameplay. Open world is lacking compared to other Assassin's creed games as tree traversal isn't very engaging.
  49. Nameless2131
    Feb 6, 2020
    7
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  50. Genek13
    Nov 18, 2019
    7
    The weakest installments in AC world for me (main titles).
    Story and hero are lets say - OK.
    Back then visuals were gorgeous :)
  51. SilverOrlov
    Sep 27, 2019
    6
    This game has some interesting plot points, but only in the sense that it had common lines with the entire series of the game. This game has nothing of its own: Absolutely terrible optimization even at medium settings, a square curve of the graph with empty polygons (this is perfectly visible in the bar, when completely empty flat textures of the table and the cup on it are visible on theThis game has some interesting plot points, but only in the sense that it had common lines with the entire series of the game. This game has nothing of its own: Absolutely terrible optimization even at medium settings, a square curve of the graph with empty polygons (this is perfectly visible in the bar, when completely empty flat textures of the table and the cup on it are visible on the entire monitor). And a very uncomfortable and stupid, in my opinion, game menu and inventory.… Expand
  52. MooplayYT
    Aug 27, 2019
    7
    nice Gameplay and story :)

    In my opiton Best Game of Assassin Creed

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  53. greenisgood
    Jul 31, 2019
    5
    I know I am a really late voice to this game, but i want to be a voice nonetheless.
    I am very surprised at the high metascore for this game because the game experience for me was absolutely horrible.The 6.3 User score is more closer to what the actual score should be not a whopping 8.
    NOW you might think the buggy, glitchy **** through the game is primarily lowering my score, but that is    I know I am a really late voice to this game, but i want to be a voice nonetheless.
    I am very surprised at the high metascore for this game because the game experience for me was absolutely horrible.The 6.3 User score is more closer to what the actual score should be not a whopping 8.
    NOW you might think the buggy, glitchy **** through the game is primarily lowering my score, but that is not so, neither is the stoic and borderline monotonous voice performance from Connor aka (Ratonhnhaké:ton).

    The half assed story and well as the campaign progression is my major problem with this game.
    Starting off with a decently interesting Haytham, we literally come to a glacial crawl from the second memory upto the sixth after which we are given proper open world control with full weapon options.
    After 4 DRAGGING/wasted memory sequences; instead of using these sequences to develop more interesting plots, the aforementioned drag combines with an abrupt rush for Connor's Campaign to climax precisely just when the story gets interesting.

    The only positive is the fantastic ship combat which was such a blast with every new ship mission, it would have been much more interesting to have a good part of the main campaign revolve around more significant naval missions rather than the extensive side mission treatment that it was given.

    There were many positives, not that the game was completely trash, but sadly coupled with a weak story execution, countless annoying bugs and glitches, an understandably stoic, stern, yet sadly one note Connor drop the score significantly for me.

    Looking forward to Black Flag play-through since I really enjoyed the naval combat.    … Expand
  54. JaydenPickens
    May 22, 2019
    7
    Typical AC game. Boring side-missions, not good controls, average main character. No conclusion to the main story. But it still was fun. Climbing trees was cool, I guess. Got this one for free, so I won't complain. If, I'd pay money for this, I'd be pissed off though. Pickens approves!
  55. LegoEggo19
    Jan 25, 2019
    7
    This wasn't a bad game, but it doesn't live up to AC2, and nobody should buy it expecting that. The main character is pretty bland throughout the game, along with much of the story, and while some of the combat can be fun, it can get old. The main detriment to this game is probably the pacing of it. It's very hard to persevere when it takes many hours to even get to the actual story.
  56. NotBanMePLZ
    Jan 20, 2019
    6
    Игра не плохая. Графика. Атмосфера. Сюжет. Система боевки. Огромный открытый мир. Правда настоящее время, все части игры про Анимус и т.д. разочаровывают, самая скучная часть в игре, прям расстраиваюсь когда начинаю играть за Дезмонда, ну не харизматичный он персонаж, ни он, ни его батя и никто либо еще из настоящего. А вот Хэйтем Кэнуэй, будь я женщиной я б потек, очень харизматичный, неИгра не плохая. Графика. Атмосфера. Сюжет. Система боевки. Огромный открытый мир. Правда настоящее время, все части игры про Анимус и т.д. разочаровывают, самая скучная часть в игре, прям расстраиваюсь когда начинаю играть за Дезмонда, ну не харизматичный он персонаж, ни он, ни его батя и никто либо еще из настоящего. А вот Хэйтем Кэнуэй, будь я женщиной я б потек, очень харизматичный, не только один он, Чарьлз Ли и Девенпорт тоже очень харизматичны, и на этом фоне когда Дезмонд выходит из Анимуса расстраиваешься, но к часть. эта часть не долгая, и занимает около пяти процентов от всей игры. На протяжении всей игры из-за выхода из Анимуса и очень скучных моментов, я забрасывал эту игру на недельку, а потом возвращался. Когда началась игра за Коннора, я очень разочаровался, это было скучней чем выходы в настоящее время, это часть с пустым геймплеем, она полностью не интерестна.
    Игру вытянули только харизматичный антагонист, хороший геймплей (и то не всегда), открытый мир и хорошая система боя.    … Expand
  57. Ernest_Figueroa
    Nov 23, 2018
    5
    El juego esta muy bien, dentro de lo que es el animus va respetable y a buen ritmo, lo que no va bien es el presente de la historia, la historia principal se va estancando y cada vez va a menos.
  58. bskierys
    Jun 16, 2018
    5
    Pretty decend game if all you want is main story. This is the first entry in the series, that showed us that Templars could be right the whole time and are not just stereotipical bad guys. Main missions are intense and story of forming of United States is engaging. Really like the fact that this conflict is not between the good ones and the bad ones and we see that both sides has theyPretty decend game if all you want is main story. This is the first entry in the series, that showed us that Templars could be right the whole time and are not just stereotipical bad guys. Main missions are intense and story of forming of United States is engaging. Really like the fact that this conflict is not between the good ones and the bad ones and we see that both sides has they wrights.
    What was wrong with this game was how it communicates it's mechanics. Economics, crafting, side mission and other open world stuff was so poorly made that this was the first game ever that get me bored with open world. Menu interface was clumsy, unintuitive and I had the problem to even find out which missions are currently opened for me.
    And there is Connor - a rebel who rebels with everyone about everything. I honestly could not stand that guy. Haytham was more charismatic character and I wish we could play more as him.    … Expand
  59. Cercamon33
    May 19, 2018
    5
    No lo he terminado, de hecho, no he llegado a la mitad del juego, y dudo que lo haga. Es bonito, y empieza bastante bien (me gustó mucho el inicio), pero pronto pierde el enfoque. Me pierdo en la historia entre nombres de personajes que debería conocer pero siento que es la primera vez que escucho de ellos, de un plano a otro en una cinemática estoy en una localización totalmenteNo lo he terminado, de hecho, no he llegado a la mitad del juego, y dudo que lo haga. Es bonito, y empieza bastante bien (me gustó mucho el inicio), pero pronto pierde el enfoque. Me pierdo en la historia entre nombres de personajes que debería conocer pero siento que es la primera vez que escucho de ellos, de un plano a otro en una cinemática estoy en una localización totalmente descontextualizada que me saca de la inmersión, he encontrado algún bug que se pasa de vistoso... En fin, no es horrible, pero no me engancha.… Expand
  60. Meta1234
    Apr 16, 2018
    6
    This is where the AC main series games went mediocre. This is a 6 and not more for me personally.

    This game featured new weather effects and tree climbing and naval navigation but this was perhaps the only scope it served. The scope to test new game mechanics. I base my score greatly on the long-lasting taste and feeling a game leaves on the player. AC III was dark with some    This is where the AC main series games went mediocre. This is a 6 and not more for me personally.

    This game featured new weather effects and tree climbing and naval navigation but this was perhaps the only scope it served. The scope to test new game mechanics.

    I base my score greatly on the long-lasting taste and feeling a game leaves on the player.
    AC III was dark with some uncomfortable moments due to the metaphorically negative aura present in the game. The areas to explore were very densely packed and became a frustration because there were constantly obstacles. Trees, rocks, rivers whatever it was there, it was not balanced.
    Story development was mediocre and the protagonist was nowhere near Ezio as a personality.

    One of the few positives to come out of this game was the mechanics that later greatly served the development of AC IV.    … Expand
  61. benigames
    Feb 4, 2018
    6
    Excellent: learning history of the United States (explained in details)

    Very good: story (from boring beginning to very intense midst and exciting ending) Good: graphic (+nice landscapes & detailed visuals -glitches & bugs) bad: mini-games (+history facts about them-tiring, long and very bored) very bad: controls (annoyable confusing in some situations) camera (doesn't follow    Excellent: learning history of the United States (explained in details)

    Very good: story (from boring beginning to very intense midst and exciting ending)

    Good: graphic (+nice landscapes & detailed visuals -glitches & bugs)

    bad: mini-games (+history facts about them-tiring, long and very bored)

    very bad: controls (annoyable confusing in some situations) camera (doesn't follow situations, especially when it comes to fighting)

    Overview: If you want to learn history through the interesting story, you may want to play nice and ease without frustrations. If you want to play because of gameplay and skills, you can avoid this title.    … Expand
  62. lel_mem
    Feb 3, 2018
    6
    Boring quests. Uninteresting plot. And just a terrible mission in reality. Of the entire series, only it has not passed 100%.
  63. TheCornflex
    Feb 1, 2018
    7
    Now finally a new character, a new story and a complete different setting. That is positive but in comparison to AC and AC2 this game is still worse and could have been way better.
  64. Tomle1202
    Nov 5, 2017
    7
    Assassin's Creed III brings about a lot of changes to the series, but most of them are superfluously annoying with only scattered signs of brilliance.
  65. Krzych
    Apr 2, 2017
    7
    Quite a break off from first four games. It receives a lot of hate apparently because it is not about Ezio, but this is definitely not a bad game. This is a good game but not much of Asssassin's Creed game, hence why so much disappointment from fans I think. The general setting is very good, story is interesting, main characters are strong, graphics is on entirely new level, kind of entryQuite a break off from first four games. It receives a lot of hate apparently because it is not about Ezio, but this is definitely not a bad game. This is a good game but not much of Asssassin's Creed game, hence why so much disappointment from fans I think. The general setting is very good, story is interesting, main characters are strong, graphics is on entirely new level, kind of entry level to modern design, soundtrack is good. And what I really liked is that finally I got some reasonable amount of Desmond story, not just some shades and few minutes per game, now it was some meaningful amount, finally. The only thing that makes this game belong to AC series to be honest, if not this I wouldn't understand why did it get AC name, aside from Desmond story there is very little from Assassin's Creed in this game. It also lacks a bit of consistency, jumps from place to place, not giving you too much of a control. Cities are also quite small and insignificant, the game has lost a lot of a open world feel from previous parts. Anyway, a good game as a standalone creation, but not a very strong position in the series.… Expand
  66. marcelus
    Mar 17, 2017
    6
    Only for those who want to finish the Desmond story or people who are interested in something Civil War related. I find the Connor the strongest Assassin (at least now that I've played until Unity...:/ yes that sh*t). The only bad thing I find about this game is the segmentation of the map and the storytelling at the fist half of the game (which has one of the worst paces I've ever seen inOnly for those who want to finish the Desmond story or people who are interested in something Civil War related. I find the Connor the strongest Assassin (at least now that I've played until Unity...:/ yes that sh*t). The only bad thing I find about this game is the segmentation of the map and the storytelling at the fist half of the game (which has one of the worst paces I've ever seen in a media content). At the second half things get better, music has some good moments and it's good for it's ending. It's a shame that they didn't achieve something more "open world" with such incredible landscapes.

    If you're fan of AC or you want something else (better than this) I fully recommend Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag. The PS4 version if it's possible which I consider the best one.    … Expand
  67. crimsondoor
    Jan 29, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only good thing about this game is perhaps great facial expressions and combat animations thanks to great motion capture. Other than that I can't think of anything good about this game...

    I should perhaps just list all the negative things I could think of at the moment in point form because there are too many to mention.

    - Lack of charm of the cities
    Can't blame them for this, its hard to trump AC2 in setting.

    - Bad story
    Too predictable, lack of details in certain important events (What happened between the time gaps? How did Haytham knew he had a son?), horrible ending which only serves as a blatant sequel hook

    - Protagonist's lack of charm
    Everyone agrees that Connor is an unlikeable character due to his lack of emotion and childishness. I blame his lack of character development on bad writing.

    - Bad pacing
    Why not just make more missions instead of the unnecessary time gaps?

    - Waste of characters
    Where the f are Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson? They make Haytham such a central character just to kill him off a few missions later after meeting him in person. Really?

    - Boring side missions, useless collectibles
    This is a problem of the whole AC series. They don't contribute to the story in anyway.

    - Bad control/UI (map, accounting book and secondary weapon choice screen)
    Half of the time I waste is because of the horrible controls/UI of the accounting book and secondary weapon choice screen.

    -Bad mechanism (especially horse riding)
    It's faster to run because the horse gets stuck most of the time anyway.

    - Uplay
    Don't need to mention this, it's why I pirated this game.    … Expand
  68. veedub
    Dec 21, 2016
    7
    Got this game for free recently. Have not played other AC games, so my opinion of this game is not based on comparison to its predecessors.

    When I first started playing, there were significant camera glitches. However, I tracked them to the source, and they can be entirely fixed by disabling recording software that I never use anyway. It's a good game so far. The story is    Got this game for free recently. Have not played other AC games, so my opinion of this game is not based on comparison to its predecessors.

    When I first started playing, there were significant camera glitches. However, I tracked them to the source, and they can be entirely fixed by disabling recording software that I never use anyway.

    It's a good game so far. The story is compelling enough for me to keep playing. I'm a big fan of American history, so the setting alone is a bonus. The game is difficult enough to feel like it's a game, and not just a playable movie. I like the parkour, although it feels rather restricted compared to some other games I've played (though, to be fair, the animations for this parkour is based on motion capture and almost feels realistic, while the more fun parkour is all entirely magical).

    Just got to a section where the focus jumps from one main character to a different one. Kind of disjointed, changing it in the middle of the game, not to mention that the whole feel of the game is different when you switch from following Haytham to following Connor.

    The game was almost entirely missing tutorials. I didn't even find out about changing items until starting the Connor sequence. I guess they're there, but you have to go through the menus.

    I would have liked a better aiming system and a better combat system that better resembles a game centered around combat, but that's a stylistic choice. As it is, you press a button to block an incoming attack, if you time it right then it gives you a second to press another button to either insta-kill or disarm your opponent. For guns, a target is highlighted and you press a button to shoot. The stylistic choice there is that everything is all done with motion capture, using real motions that are all very smooth, and giving more freedom in a fight would have broken the realism.

    I like how for every mission there are several optional challenges that it gives you at the beginning. Gives you an incentive to try making it harder than just muddling through the minimum.

    Overall not awful, but then according to other reviews it's terrible compared to others in the series.    … Expand
  69. Nyakuya
    Dec 20, 2016
    7
    Un juego decente (menos en rendimiento, apartado en el que por cierto es una mierda).
    La historia de este juego es complicada de entender, tuve que jugarlo 2 veces para entender el por qué de un par de cosas, aunque tanto el final como la pelea de Connor contra su Haytham, me parecieron estúpidas y enormemente evitables.
    Le doy un 7 porque jugarlo es muy entretenido, porque cambiaron    Un juego decente (menos en rendimiento, apartado en el que por cierto es una mierda).
    La historia de este juego es complicada de entender, tuve que jugarlo 2 veces para entender el por qué de un par de cosas, aunque tanto el final como la pelea de Connor contra su Haytham, me parecieron estúpidas y enormemente evitables.

    Le doy un 7 porque jugarlo es muy entretenido, porque cambiaron el sistema de parkour y agregaron varias cosas más como Barcos y armas.    … Expand
  70. Akadrud
    Sep 5, 2016
    6
    I played every AC before this one.. i have to say this one is probably the worst, though i still played it till the end but just to get it done and start AC 4. The story is nice and captivating, some visuals are really good but there are lots of glitches (people disappearing and appearing, climbing looks really bad and so on) and many optional features added aren't funny to play and areI played every AC before this one.. i have to say this one is probably the worst, though i still played it till the end but just to get it done and start AC 4. The story is nice and captivating, some visuals are really good but there are lots of glitches (people disappearing and appearing, climbing looks really bad and so on) and many optional features added aren't funny to play and are worthless in the game experience (like the expansion of your home/territory, and the commerce).… Expand
  71. sevifc
    Feb 26, 2016
    7
    Basado en la época de la guerra de independencia estadounidense. Me encantó los escenarios y el añadido de la caza al juego. Historia bastante aceptable.
  72. Blod
    Feb 9, 2016
    6
    Pros
    nice action
    nice parkour
    pretty good battle in the sea
    Cons
    awful story
    end of desmond serious
    character descripton is not that great, it is bad.
  73. ChaosHydrA
    Feb 5, 2016
    6
    Its been 1½ years after i played Revelations, as these games really burn you out after doing one. So i was finally set to play this and have come to the conclusion that so far from AC 1,2,Bro,Rev this is absolutely the worst game in the franchise only toppled by AC1 for me.

    This game has returned to things that made the older entries and especially AC 1 a chore and bore to play. Some    Its been 1½ years after i played Revelations, as these games really burn you out after doing one. So i was finally set to play this and have come to the conclusion that so far from AC 1,2,Bro,Rev this is absolutely the worst game in the franchise only toppled by AC1 for me.

    This game has returned to things that made the older entries and especially AC 1 a chore and bore to play.

    Some of the main things that ruins this game:

    1. Core Gameplay elements. Theyve really ruined alot of the fluid feel the great entries after AC1 had with this game. Parkour elements dont feel as responsive in the older games again, i felt like i got stuck on way too many things and areas or climbing areas i didnt want to. The city/frontier design seem to play alot into this. Fast traveling gets used alot in this game due to how bad it is to use the horse in especially the frontier area, constantly you will lose the view of the main road or get stuck at rocks and edges with it, often leaving you in horse rides that take 5 seconds or so before you have to jump off and run again. Where is New York in the main story ? Theres like 3-5 missions that takes place there and 2-3 of them are in a prison and the rest is in about 20% of the map section before its over. The most interesting looking and open city in the game is completely absent for exploration due to lack of missions, i never felt like i had to travel through the city to find a new exciting area. Instead the game take place most of the time in Boston or Boreston more like which had like the docks/harbour as the only interesting and distinctive part. The feel in general of discovering in this game is absent due to weather changes which just makes travelling more annoying due to darkness/fog etc. Thrown out the window is also the exotic feel and locations of the 4 prior games where you would see the Colloseum/Bosphorus Area/Hagia Sophia etc. and instead we get to see a bunch of damn trees and post offices/halls *ZzZ*. There was literally no amazing views/areas in this game that made you awe to be inside it or explore, dont get me started on the underground tunnels *ugh*. Mission design is also way to linear and strict, something first introduced in Brotherhood hence why i rate it below AC2 especially. The alternate objectives in this game were also really annoying and felt like they were intentionally designed to be failed so you could replay them, a cheap way kind of from the developer to force in some replay value. I found them rather too time based and frustrating to the point where they took off my attention of focusing on the main objective and suck in the misisons immersion.

    2. The collectathon aspects are back, a bunch of nonsense unfilling collectables for the sake of it.

    3. Side missions. Do these even exist in this game ? the only thing i recall is delivering a bunch of letters to nobodies and killing a random guard strolling without awareness from you apporaching at any given point ie. free kill.

    4. Puzzles. Where the hell are the puzzle elements in this game ? In the older AC games it was a joy to do the painting/mystery puzzles, climbing viewpoints were a puzzle by itself with variation. In this game you climb some random huge tree 5 times with the exact same approach and in the towns you just climb straight up to the top.

    5. Story progression. The story itself is somewhat entertaining, it has the conspirator list thing that made 2 & Brotherhood great and gave a feel of progression. However this game while it has that element fails in how it delivers that in comparison to the aforementioned 2 games. First of all it feels really disjointed with not only the dna progression but also due to the emphasis and build of the side missions which makes it a overall disjointed and unsatisfying experience. The main reason however is definitely the key characters in the game and how theyre developed, which i will mention underneath with some examples.

    6. Character development/feel. This is where AC3 ultimately fails imo from being memorable in the vain of the Ezio trilogy kind of proportions. The main character Connor is a absolute drag/primitive. The primitive thing makes sense at the beginning due to his origins, however i never got the impression that he developed throughtout the game with the story and became more "civilised" during the era. He consistently throughout the game stays as a complete absent minded savage which sees the world through the mind of a child with rash and angered decisions.

    Then we have the villains and some of the key characters. The relationship story and conenction with his father is so weakly executed. The game introduces nothing early on that should trigger strong emotions between them which would actually make the plot a hard and tearjerking experience through the sto    … Expand
  74. Mahdiar
    Dec 17, 2015
    7
    Gameplay : 8
    Graphics : 9
    Story : 8
    Sound : 8
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    Overall : 8
  75. LeeVanCleef
    Oct 27, 2015
    6
    DAMN IT! i love the AC saga, but this game isn't funny like AC2 or AC2 brotherood. Honestly I feel a great confusion in the main story. I hope that blackflag is much better.
  76. Budget_Security
    Apr 23, 2015
    6
    Not as mediocre as many user reviews suggested. In my opinion it's one of the better games in the series so far.

    There is a great amount of varied content (less than Skyrim, but not far off arguably). The main story is quite decent and of a good length, but it is a bit messy at times. There are also a large amount of sidequests, but as with other games in the series, many are low-key    Not as mediocre as many user reviews suggested. In my opinion it's one of the better games in the series so far.

    There is a great amount of varied content (less than Skyrim, but not far off arguably). The main story is quite decent and of a good length, but it is a bit messy at times. There are also a large amount of sidequests, but as with other games in the series, many are low-key and their sub-plots lack plausibility. Gameplay is standard AssCreed fare - familiar and accessible, but sometimes a bit contrived and poorly balanced. The wide variety of activities prevent things from getting too repetitive. It's almost always too easy, except when the controls and game mechanics are being a pain. Missions have optional objectives for added difficulty, which often works well, but sometimes is more annoying than anything else. Combat looks cool, but usually lacks depth and challenge. The new naval missions may lack plot, and the ships may handle more like motorboats, but these missions are fun, and a great change of scenery. The visuals and sea wave effects are also excellent. The soundtrack is good, even better than in AC-Revelations.

    So, as always, realism and historical authenticity leave much to be desired, but the game is still fun. It caters well to the mainstream, but may leave hardcore gamers a bit hungry for more challenge and immersion.

    Most environments look decent, and on a technical level the graphics are slightly superior to Skyrim (even with the HD textures DLC), but at the same time, some things still looks a bit dated due to the Xbox360's limits. Like with most console games, the open world still lacks some persistence (bodies vanishing right after you look away, people and even carts spawning or vanishing right in front of you). The detail on the main characters is excellent though. (tip - the low anti-aliasing setting looks better than the high one which makes things blurry).

    The checkpoint save system is better than many others, but can still be annoying sometimes. As with past games controls are ok, but a bit temperamental and not optimised for mouse and keyboard, of course. It is a pity you cannot have a standard FPS setup and programmable 1-9 weapon/gear hotkeys. These kind of things are to be expected with this series, and while annoying, they are not too bad, and certainly don't break the game. I have noticed a few minor bugs (the odd missing model or floating object), but otherwise the game runs very stable. Overall, porting to PC has slightly improved since AssCreed2.

    Sadly the animus combat training centre has been removed. And one more thing - why can't I gallop(sprint) my horse in town?! In AC-Brotherhood you could gallop only if you had the game installed on an SSD (yes, seriously!). I still have SSD, so WHY U NO GALLOP horsey?!?!

    Verdict: It may not be an excellent game, but it is decent, and I can easily recommend it, even if you are new to the series.    … Expand
  77. Rayfinder
    Mar 28, 2015
    5
    Another quite lackluster game in the tower-climbing simulator series. Even if the setting is quite fascinating, the main character is not up to that same standard, nor is the majority of the story. The intro was quite good though.
  78. Greywolf999
    Nov 23, 2014
    6
    Assassin's creed 3 was a revolutionary new idea to the franchise and in some cases it worked and in others it did not. One of the good things was the new naval combat which took you to many different locations while on the helm of your ship. Assassin's Creed 3 provides a new range of tools and skills to the AC games from your tomahawk, to your bow and mines you the strap onto your enemiesAssassin's creed 3 was a revolutionary new idea to the franchise and in some cases it worked and in others it did not. One of the good things was the new naval combat which took you to many different locations while on the helm of your ship. Assassin's Creed 3 provides a new range of tools and skills to the AC games from your tomahawk, to your bow and mines you the strap onto your enemies backs. However I wasn't keen on the cities which felt boring and lifeless. The story line of Assassins Creed 3 started of really strong but after sequence 7, things started to go down hill. Hathem Kenway was one of my favorite Templars in the Assassin's Creed games and I enjoyed playing as him. When Connor came along I enjoyed playing as him also. However I hated the ending and didn't like the Templar Charles Lee who you kill at the end. Hathem should have been the one you kill because 1) he is Connors father, 2) he is grand master of the Templar order, and 3) you play as him before so you have some experience of his ways. Overall I would call Assassin's Creed 3 a good game but still would prefer the old classics like AC2 and Brotherhood over this one.… Expand
  79. kane148
    Oct 12, 2014
    6
    This game was a very mixed experience of good and bad, and while it's not too bad in the end, it suffers from several flaws that could have easily been fixed to make it a much better game. I tried to play it for the first time about a year ago, but before even finishing the prologue sequence I got frustrated and gave up. It took me awhile to give it another try, and this time I stuck itThis game was a very mixed experience of good and bad, and while it's not too bad in the end, it suffers from several flaws that could have easily been fixed to make it a much better game. I tried to play it for the first time about a year ago, but before even finishing the prologue sequence I got frustrated and gave up. It took me awhile to give it another try, and this time I stuck it out played all the way through. Connor's story has some really good moments, especially at the end of the prologue sequence (easily one of the best moments of the whole series). However, both Connor's and Desmond's stories went through stretches where they didn't make much sense or were just boring. Worst of all, both stories' ending were pretty anticlimactic. Right when you're waiting for a big payoff (after several games and many hours of play), they just putter out. The game introduced some new features that I liked, such as having different abilities for assassin recruits, hunting game, and crafting. Unfortunately, these features failed to reach anywhere close to their full potential: once they level up some (or you recruit several) the assassin's abilities are not too helpful, as they can just kill anything anyways. Hunting is mostly used for crafting and trade, but there isn't much worth crafting after you get the few available upgrades, and money quickly becomes useless once you upgrade your ship, which you can do pretty early on. By far my favorite new aspect was the addition of naval combat missions. While quite different in nature from the traditional AC gameplay--going for all-out combat instead of stealthy kills--it was fairly well implemented and gave a welcome break from running around through endless streets and trails. One thing that this game did horribly, however, was the controls: AC games on PC have a reputation for being lazy console ports, but it seems like instead of getting better, this issue is getting worse. Instead of allowing you to take advantage of having a keyboard with more than a half dozen keys, the game wants to force you to use the same couple keys for everything, with the result that you frequently end up doing something completely different than you intended. Finally, the voice acting is pretty terrible in general, and this is especially noticeable with Connor, the protagonist, who spends the whole game sounding like he's reading his lines and just doesn't care. Overall, it's not a bad game, and it's worth playing if you're an AC fan. I just wish that Ubisoft had put more thought and effort into the game, as it had the potential to be a very good one...… Expand
  80. Spyros_spy
    Sep 13, 2014
    5
    I really liked the story but the game was so buggy, glitching and I had already had my fill hunting animals and doing side missions in Far Cry 3 that I didnt even touch anything of those. Game-play had new controls (an improvement to the previous games) but the magic of climbing building and stuff was lost. I was travelling with Fast-Travel whenever I could and by horse in the town causeI really liked the story but the game was so buggy, glitching and I had already had my fill hunting animals and doing side missions in Far Cry 3 that I didnt even touch anything of those. Game-play had new controls (an improvement to the previous games) but the magic of climbing building and stuff was lost. I was travelling with Fast-Travel whenever I could and by horse in the town cause of the long distances, and nowhere to go from rooftop to rooftop.… Expand
  81. Noble_Nexus
    Sep 2, 2014
    6
    AC III is the weakest title in the series, the story is ok, but not really involving like the one in AC III.
    Connor is not exactly the best protagonist, he is a little empty and not very convincing, but it's a great game, nice graphics, good soundtrack.
    this is the first time i played an assassin's creed game and run to beat the game, without doing any side missions. AC III is a good    AC III is the weakest title in the series, the story is ok, but not really involving like the one in AC III.
    Connor is not exactly the best protagonist, he is a little empty and not very convincing, but it's a great game, nice graphics, good soundtrack.
    this is the first time i played an assassin's creed game and run to beat the game, without doing any side missions.
    AC III is a good title but is dull and lazy, ubisoft have to do better than that to keep the franchise growing    … Expand
  82. ghost2512
    Jun 13, 2014
    7
    this port is unoptimized for the pc with constant fps drops. storytelling is good but is highly linearized .the world is less open ended than the previous game. the plus side of the game is its naval combat .
  83. ChaosontheMoon
    Apr 17, 2014
    7
    I played AC1,2, AC brotherhood and revelation in sequence without any other game in between. After 3 hours when i started playing AC 3 , i felt like somethings is missing. After finishing the game i felt like why is this story so **** and why the **** i have to play that naive "connor"??? Where are my Assassins brothers??
    But to be fair, the game mechanics and controls are improved.    I played AC1,2, AC brotherhood and revelation in sequence without any other game in between. After 3 hours when i started playing AC 3 , i felt like somethings is missing. After finishing the game i felt like why is this story so **** and why the **** i have to play that naive "connor"??? Where are my Assassins brothers??
    But to be fair, the game mechanics and controls are improved. Graphics are ok and the most beautiful things is, you can skip ingame cutscenes now.    … Expand
  84. wizered153
    Apr 10, 2014
    7
    While the combat is okay and the story in the simulation is fairly interesting, the game just gets fairly difficult at times. I haven't played much of other Assassin's Creed Games, but the animal block mini games are an easy way to get killed if there's more than two or three of them. However, the naval combat is definitely my favorite part of the game, but it's ruined when I'm pulled outWhile the combat is okay and the story in the simulation is fairly interesting, the game just gets fairly difficult at times. I haven't played much of other Assassin's Creed Games, but the animal block mini games are an easy way to get killed if there's more than two or three of them. However, the naval combat is definitely my favorite part of the game, but it's ruined when I'm pulled out for no reason to listen to some boring story. If there was more Naval missions and less out of simulation story the score would've been higher.… Expand
  85. Dark_D3s7r0y3r
    Apr 5, 2014
    5
    What the hell was Ubisoft thinking when they made this game? Every game in the series thus far has been enjoyable despite their flaws, and if you were given an objective, you were usually given the means to actually do that objective. It seems that in this one, they've decided to completely forgo giving you ANY of the slightest conveniences for getting a 100% synch, MAYBE adding in aWhat the hell was Ubisoft thinking when they made this game? Every game in the series thus far has been enjoyable despite their flaws, and if you were given an objective, you were usually given the means to actually do that objective. It seems that in this one, they've decided to completely forgo giving you ANY of the slightest conveniences for getting a 100% synch, MAYBE adding in a distant haystack or something during missions that require stealth. I don't think they quite understood that difficulty also has to be fun. It seems like they'd rather have you constantly replay the same mission with poorly-placed checkpoints until you simply go insane and destroy your computer.

    Now that I've finished that little rant, on to more "important" issues with the game, like its ABSURD amount of glitches. It feels like every time Connor actually manages to shimmy and waddle to the place I want him to, I find disappearing people, things stuck in walls, floating objects, etc. It really feels like I'm playing an early beta build or something. It's just not excusable. In addition to all of this, as I've pointed out before, the already somewhat lacking stealth system found in previous games in the series has been even further reduced when you really need it. Coupled with the fact that guards now have sharper vision and alertness than eagles (Except for the times when they don't seem to see ANYTHING, which is rare), this really gets to be a frustrating problem.

    I could go on and on about how utterly flawed the game is, but I'm tired, I'm frustrated, and I'd really like to stop thinking about all of these flaws. So lets look at the positives of this game: It looks breathtakingly beautiful, and it's pretty obvious that a lot of attention to detail was given to visuals. Every environment, every animation, every creature... it all looks very believable. Until, that is, you notice that bear that got stuck in a rock and can't do anything about it but spasm.
    And... well, that's pretty much all I found enjoyable.    … Expand
  86. Llaerrick
    Mar 2, 2014
    6
    Almost a great game. But there are more than a couple of things in the game which prevent it from being as good as it should. The premise was always going to be sound. AC2 was an amazing game but AC3 does not build on it strongly enough and adds tedium and irritation to the gameplay by trying to do too much superficially. Colonial America doesn't seem as vibrant or immersive or real asAlmost a great game. But there are more than a couple of things in the game which prevent it from being as good as it should. The premise was always going to be sound. AC2 was an amazing game but AC3 does not build on it strongly enough and adds tedium and irritation to the gameplay by trying to do too much superficially. Colonial America doesn't seem as vibrant or immersive or real as AC2's Renaissance Europe. unfortunately, AC3 adds a lot of newer features to the game play which sometimes makes playing it tedious. the wandering around in the undergrounds beneath the cities just to find the fast travel points can be so frustratingly tedious it's more fun watching paint dry (at least then you can inhale the fumes ...) . The AI detection system is also sometimes wonky but more often than not, the detection rate can be frustrating (and sometimes it seems the guards also attack for no real reason even when you are no where near a restricted zone). The story-line and narrative isn't wholly terrible but it's not great either (at least no where near AC2). Unlike AC2 which gives a sense of character progression (without really engaging any RPG-like schemes - eg. ungrading armor/weapons, there isn't really a sense of character progression this time around). the crafting/economy/trading concept was interesting but mostly superficial. ultimately, it's sad that the most engaging gameplay (for me at least) in this installation of the Assassin's Creed franchise were the naval/sea battles.… Expand
  87. JohnAbruzzi
    Feb 13, 2014
    6
    The game is not bad but it's not optimized well and there are lots of bugs and stuff. Otherwise the game is fun, it has an interesting story and a lot things to do like hunting, selling stuff, crafting.
    It's not bad but if there were no bugs it would be best.
  88. morfil
    Jan 23, 2014
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Assassins Creed III is a game I haven't been longing to play. The first and second game in the franchise took me by storm and fulfilled my gaming experience. This game however is a complete different story!

    Story wise this game is awesome and still stands by the Assassins Creed genre of History and Religion mixed with a little Fiction. However the game play itself is terrible terrible terrible. I even bought the game almost 2 years after release and still it's buggy as freaking hell, I dare say even worse than Fallout: New Vegas. Glitch after glitch and bug after bug. Some examples are the out of sync lip sync, cuts in the cut scenes where a lot of the dialog is lost, people vanishing in to thin air and appearing from nowhere, rag doll effect on corpses that fly away or twitch and spaz out, random people doing "acrobatics" in the middle of the street (actually worth seeing since it made me laugh out loud) and the annoying minor glitches that ruin some missions completely and just makes you so mad that you want to shove a blade in some random settler, witch is of course not possible.

    The thing that bugs me the most is a minor thing. The person you play as can't walk up stair in a normal manner. It just looks weird as hell. If I'd try it I would fall on my ass.

    Still the good things are that everything is beautiful, the landscape, graphics and the story but that can't help the terrible game play.    … Expand
  89. PanaCZech
    Dec 10, 2013
    5
    This is the first game I played from the series and it was a huge disappointment. The controls may be OK for console players I guess but on PC I felt just like watching a movie (with a bad plot) rather than playing a game. I hate simplicity at the expense of playability. That said the game graphics and physics are fine and there are few very good ideas. But the game as a whole is tooThis is the first game I played from the series and it was a huge disappointment. The controls may be OK for console players I guess but on PC I felt just like watching a movie (with a bad plot) rather than playing a game. I hate simplicity at the expense of playability. That said the game graphics and physics are fine and there are few very good ideas. But the game as a whole is too boring for me.… Expand
  90. Banhammer0
    Dec 3, 2013
    6
    As Assassin's Creed fan I expected more. This is a huge downgrade from previous games. Extremely buggy and unpolished, even after multiple patches. Combat is streamlined and way too easy. One of the good things is that AC 3 looks stunning, both the combat and landscape.
    The new protagonist is dull and unlikable. The story inside the animus is mediocre but the story outside is extremely    As Assassin's Creed fan I expected more. This is a huge downgrade from previous games. Extremely buggy and unpolished, even after multiple patches. Combat is streamlined and way too easy. One of the good things is that AC 3 looks stunning, both the combat and landscape.
    The new protagonist is dull and unlikable. The story inside the animus is mediocre but the story outside is extremely dumb and lacking. The gameplay has been dumbed down and is worse than Revelations, less smooth. I love the American setting, it's realistic and immersive but cities were not designed well, stealth is frustrating and navigating through cities quickly is a chore more often than not.
    It has many mini-games but most aren't interesting at all except maybe naval combat which was pretty damn good.
    Overall it's a huge let down and it gets only 6/10.    … Expand
  91. mali103
    Nov 24, 2013
    6
    Expected a lot more from Ubisoft, in particular this one, since its the latest installment after Ezio's trilogy. The graphics won't put you down since they are above par, however the story and gameplay will. The mechanics are worth mentioning. Not too bad, but, could have been a lot better.
  92. DominikCZE
    Nov 16, 2013
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unfortunately, this is the first Assassin's Creed game that I wasn't fully enjoying the whole time and frankly, found many passages to be boring and annoying. First of all, Haytham Kenway was an AWESOME character. Cunning, intelligent, sophisticated. Switching to that angry kid in the middle of the game was very disappointing. The story didn't make much sense to me either. Let me explain. Ezio, for example, had a motive, the people he was after killed his family. This douchebag? He just goes around killing templars that are actually doing GOOD things and haven't done anything that much wrong, helping people that are manipulating him and are the same, if not worse, than the Templars he's after. Killing his own father tops that all off. Sure, I get it, Connor is an assassin and they are Templars. But is he really that dumb that he can't see the relativity of the situation? He's helping people with certain interests kill people with different interests, but all he seems to see is "good" and "bad", not even trying to think about what he's doing and what a ridiculous little pawn he is. The idiocy of Connor really ruined the game for me.

    Lets sum this up, a beautiful living world, fun combat, countless hours of gameplay.... all ruined by having to play as a complete fool who kills random people that he shouldn't care about and doesn't even know why. I'm still giving this game a solid 6, because it did bring some innovation to the already amazing AC franchise gameplay wise (naval combat, for example), but Connor and the story were an enormous let down (and the boring linear missions).    … Expand
  93. titannet
    Nov 10, 2013
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was looking for another open world game and decided to give ACIII a try. At first I really enjoyed it. Graphics are OK, it's ported to PC really good, production values are good. The story it pretty linear at first and sort of OK, so I stuck around waiting for the open world part to kick in.

    But the game didn't get better, it got worse. And fast. Why? Because there is nothing really interesting to do. Or challenging for that matter.

    Don't get me wrong the game can be hard. For example if you have to do a sneaking job and retry it until you memorize the movement of every f* guard in the vicinity. Or if you get killed for *some reason* after routinely fighting through countless enemies without a scratch.

    But for the most part it is pretty easy and you walk around doing pointless things. Collecting feathers for whatever reason. Trading beaver pelts to get money you don't really need. Killing beavers and wondering if this or Far Cry 3 has more pointless animal killing. Doing boring side missions. Doing boring main missions.

    Want an example? You obnoxious main character decides to assassinate some evil bloke and tries to find him by annoying everyone around him in some cutscenes. So walking around, cutscene.. Oh the English attack with the evil dude in command.
    Your job: ride around for 10-15 minutes and rouse some militia dudes. Exciting!
    Next: Watch a cutscene of the dudes you just roused (or whoever) get routed.
    Next: Ride to the next town on a timer. Great!
    Next: Watch a cutscene, this time being insulted by an even more annoying dude than you pc.
    Next: Defend some bridge by riding around and giving "fire" commands to some dudes. Wtf?
    Next: Watch cutscene getting explained that the evil dude you never tried to assassinate escaped and is now protected by so many soldiers that you have to.. bla bla bla.

    Why call the game Assassin's Creed anyway?

    I won't even start on side missions, which tend to be rather ludicrous. Like delivering mail. Or fighting ship battles that are usually over in under a minute.

    Once again, it is not really a bad game, it is only boring, repetetive and the story is somewhere between stupid and annoying. Same as you main character.

    *Spoiler*
    Don't get confused by the really cool character you play in the beginning, he just happens to be the plot twist. Might be one of the most disappointing feature in video game history.    … Expand
  94. jz36nj
    Oct 28, 2013
    5
    A boring entry into a typically great series. Connor is mostly unlikeable and the story swings in all directions while Connor moves from obviously bad decision to obviously bad decision. Storyline is predictable and too much time is spent between forest and sea. Gameplay is typical but the environment is poorly developed making the mechanics feel clunky anywhere outside of the cityA boring entry into a typically great series. Connor is mostly unlikeable and the story swings in all directions while Connor moves from obviously bad decision to obviously bad decision. Storyline is predictable and too much time is spent between forest and sea. Gameplay is typical but the environment is poorly developed making the mechanics feel clunky anywhere outside of the city environments. The flash forwards back into the present with Desmond have become terrible, plain and simple.… Expand
  95. InterestGuy
    Oct 22, 2013
    6
    Ok, so, first of all, this was one of the most expected games in 2012. Everyone expected incredible graphics, amazing storyline, fighting mechanics, and other worth-buying innovations. They achieved the graphics, because they are incredible. The fighting mechanics are good too. The storyline- Mehh.
    I didn't enjoyed a lot playing it. I mean, it's not that I hate it or nothing, but, I guess    Ok, so, first of all, this was one of the most expected games in 2012. Everyone expected incredible graphics, amazing storyline, fighting mechanics, and other worth-buying innovations. They achieved the graphics, because they are incredible. The fighting mechanics are good too. The storyline- Mehh.
    I didn't enjoyed a lot playing it. I mean, it's not that I hate it or nothing, but, I guess it wasn't something out of this world. I give it a 6.    … Expand
  96. Matinski
    Oct 13, 2013
    5
    This game looks good and plays well. It is buggy and has it's own issues... BUT this is the game that will kill the franchise. If you like A.C. then I would think long and hard before buying this. As I said it is a good game... it isn't A.C. as you know it. I found myself not caring about the storyline and, dare I say it... getting bored with it.

    They have taken a winning game and    This game looks good and plays well. It is buggy and has it's own issues... BUT this is the game that will kill the franchise. If you like A.C. then I would think long and hard before buying this. As I said it is a good game... it isn't A.C. as you know it. I found myself not caring about the storyline and, dare I say it... getting bored with it.

    They have taken a winning game and shoehorned it into a new game to make more money. what a shame.    … Expand
  97. Doctor-J
    Aug 30, 2013
    7
    When i played just 5 hours of this game i gave it a 9. I made a terrible mistake, this game is not that good. It has indeed a good story, and the Naval missions are the Jewel of the Crown. But the game is broken, the parkour elements are Broken, the Battles are way too simple, different weapons means nothing in this game. The best thing of the game, the naval missions, are so few in theWhen i played just 5 hours of this game i gave it a 9. I made a terrible mistake, this game is not that good. It has indeed a good story, and the Naval missions are the Jewel of the Crown. But the game is broken, the parkour elements are Broken, the Battles are way too simple, different weapons means nothing in this game. The best thing of the game, the naval missions, are so few in the story mode, that you can count in one hand's fingers. I am relieved that Blackflag's focus is on Piracy, i really hope they learn from their mistakes, Assassin's Creed is an awesome franchise.… Expand
  98. joelnun
    Aug 26, 2013
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. so assassin creed 3 is a game based of the assassin creed franshise that is amazing so i just want to start with the gameplay its kinda hard but the more you progress through the game you figure out a great way how to doge and stuff i trust me once you know how to do that you be invinceable and now ubisoft also added naval combat that is bad-ass but enough about the gameplay onto the story its leaves of the ending of assassin creed revaltion that i wont spoil but you Desmond miles the main protaginest of the story is forced into the animus that lets him revisit the lives of his ancestor and trying to save the world dyeing from a sunray yea and in this game your revisiting colinal times yae you get to see george washington Bajemen Frankilin and your ancestor Connor Kenway but his persinalty is not very likeable and the ending is just like the worse ending ever not having a freaking choice but lets look at the envirement of course you can visit boston and new york and the frontier and every place have great texture and with the new engine anvil they able to pull off tree free running that is great and everything looks beautiful but the ending was very bad for assassin creed fans the ending was a major let down and relay big cliff hanger… Expand
  99. drachehexe
    Aug 15, 2013
    5
    This game bloody sucks, worst Assassin's Creed game and just bloody poor design overall.. The save system as with all the other is crap. In most of the missions you have to complete EVERYTHING, including the bonus synchronization tasks, in one go...in other words if you mess up just once you have to start the mission from the very beginning no matter how close you were to completing it,This game bloody sucks, worst Assassin's Creed game and just bloody poor design overall.. The save system as with all the other is crap. In most of the missions you have to complete EVERYTHING, including the bonus synchronization tasks, in one go...in other words if you mess up just once you have to start the mission from the very beginning no matter how close you were to completing it, THAT BLOWS. This game is also segmented more than the others, you keep getting cut back and forth between free roam and cut scene a lot which makes the flow disjointed and jerky. Also, the geometry and collision detection sucks as you will find yourself constantly getting stuck on the ground, or even things you're supposed to be able to climb. Horses get stuck in corners A LOT. Lots of random new game mechanics pop up at times too making gameplay feel inconsistent, things like quicktime events that all use different mechanics and that crap. As for sound and visuals and story this has all the Assassin Creed trappings except for the mechanics and gameplay..they suck. Mission save points suck, we need manual save, and the whole game interface, that animus layout interface sucks, it has ALWAYS sucked. Also, this game doesn't give you a clear idea of what you're supposed to do. Sometime you have NO idea what is supposed to be done. Other times they flash directions in the middle of the event as it's happening but it's too fast to read them so what to do when can be very confusing at times. This is a piss poor mess of bad gameplay, interface, clarity, saving. If it doesn't have to do with the visual appearance, sound, or story then it sucks.… Expand
  100. Cyberlion
    Jul 28, 2013
    5
    I'm seriously impressed by the polish of this game, I'll give it that. The cinematics, voice acting and including real history is impressive. I'm three hours into the game, I'm falling asleep. I'll try to give this game a chance, hopefully it's the slowest start in history of games, I'll put in an hour or so more. If I was someone that has never played this series, I would beI'm seriously impressed by the polish of this game, I'll give it that. The cinematics, voice acting and including real history is impressive. I'm three hours into the game, I'm falling asleep. I'll try to give this game a chance, hopefully it's the slowest start in history of games, I'll put in an hour or so more. If I was someone that has never played this series, I would be impressed. For someones who has played the previous games, it seems like I'm doing the same repetitive quests and tasks I was in the previous game. Such a shame, so much unfulfilled potential Not sure how they can release a forth iteration, I think this series is out of steam.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. PC Master (Greece)
    Feb 6, 2013
    80
    Assassin’s Creed III proves to be, despite its promises, a rather indecisive game. It comes with so many strong elements, that it could have been the best Assassin’s Creed ever, but it fails to harmonically balance those elements. [January 2013]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Jan 29, 2013
    85
    Assassin's Creed 3 offers a spectacular way to fill in the blanks in your knowledge of the American Revolution - it never holds back on scope, drama or action.
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  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 23, 2013
    84
    What, no French revolution? For Europeans, birth of the United States is not really very interesting time nor environment. And after Ezio (or Haytham Kenway), Connor is bland, irritating protagonist. Game is also full of chores that add very little to the experience. [Jan 2013]
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