Assassin's Creed Liberation HD

 PlayStation 3
User Score
6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 110 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 110
  2. Mixed: 51 out of 110
  3. Negative: 25 out of 110

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  1. doomfist229
    Aug 17, 2018
    0
    bad gameplay bad assasssins ejpqoooojgjqpigjigpqjgjipgjpiqggpgjeeqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqtt
  2. gamerz4life
    Nov 27, 2021
    4
    I decided to buy this game for PS3 after the PC version wouldn’t stop crashing and became unplayable. What I had been able to play seemed interesting and I wanted to see if I could continue on with a console. Turns out I could. Except for one crash with the game screen-tearing, and near the end not being able to use the dressing rooms because the black loading screen failed to disappearI decided to buy this game for PS3 after the PC version wouldn’t stop crashing and became unplayable. What I had been able to play seemed interesting and I wanted to see if I could continue on with a console. Turns out I could. Except for one crash with the game screen-tearing, and near the end not being able to use the dressing rooms because the black loading screen failed to disappear once I changed (I could hear the game and if I spun the camera fast enough, the black flickered away for an instant, enough to see that the game was playing underneath) I was able to finish the game. But I would not recommend this game, even on console.

    Liberation starts out with such promise. The idea of an Assassin having to use guises to be able to blend and enter locations without as much notice depending on the mission is a really cool concept. I wish other games had incorporated it. But eventually, about halfway through the game they pretty much become irrelevant as you just wear your Assassin attire for everything.

    The story starts out interestingly enough as well. Aveline’s father is a wealthy business owner who freed both her mother and her from slavery, and all but legally married her mother. But her mother disappears without a trace and she gets a stepmother who dotes on her and shares Aveline’s hatred of slavery. Sequences become more inconsequential as the game goes on, as they turn into go talk to this person for a cut scene, walk a few steps this way for maybe a small fight sequence before another cut scene. Sequence complete, don’t you feel accomplished?? Not only that but being an Assassin in a story mission automatically makes you notorious, so it’s next to impossible to be stealthy because every guard instantly spots you even if you’re not within their eyesight.

    This game eventually shoehorns in a mission outside New York with Connor, because did ya play ACIII? They clearly offered Connor’s voice actor $2 for these lines because boy did he clearly phone it in, his voice was absolutely wooden without a trace of emotion.

    The end game sequences are so stupid. Agate, who hasn’t been useful or helpful to you for most of the game, decides you betrayed him and must die, but first we must fight fake enemies because he blew crazy gas at you. And oh? Don’t you know who the big bad at the end is? Because we saw Aveline does even though there was nothing leading up to this revelation. Not to mention trying to throw in the mention of the Templar Order at the end despite the entire game not discussing the Templars, instead it seems more like Aveline is taking out slavers.

    You get a map with ships running goods but it is nothing like AC3, 4, or Rogue. There is no tutorial of how to do it; it’s just thrown at you with pretty much a good luck. I did it twice but then saw no purpose for it. If it was to get me money I didn’t need it because except for buying the next weapons up at the very beginning of the game and some new outfits I didn’t buy anything. Weapons’ prices were astronomical and were worse stats than my beginning weapons!!

    Don’t buy this game. You have so many better Assassin’s Creed games at your disposal; 1, 2, Brotherhood, and Rogue. Save yourself a headache and pick up something that will be fun and have a great story.    … Expand
  3. Dmytro93
    Nov 7, 2022
    1
    Very bad ! Broken game , not playable, old and bad game ; don’t play if you can
  4. JBreed
    Aug 4, 2023
    0
    Poor plot, a rehashed combat, and an underwhelming cast of characters. Liberation offers absolutely nothing to longtime fans of the franchise as well as new players. They botched the potential setting of Louisiana and for such a short game, it still feels like a drag which goes to show how much of an abomination this game is.

Awards & Rankings

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#48 Best PS3 Game of 2014
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#15 Most Discussed PS3 Game of 2014
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#49 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2014

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Metascore
64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Mar 6, 2014
    80
    Most importantly from my perspective, Aveline is the most worthwhile female lead character since Ubisoft's own Jade from Beyond Good & Evil.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Feb 27, 2014
    65
    Liberation has plenty of interesting things going for it, but is only essential for completionists. [March 2014, p80]
  3. GameCritics
    Feb 26, 2014
    60
    Liberation HD won't change anyone's mind about the Assassin's Creed series. It clings closely to the style of the series' earlier entries, but feels cramped even in comparison to those games.
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