I started playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations last night but I am so far unimpressed. Here’s the playlist that will have my playthrough.

I think this game more than any this season will be victim of its release date. The intro to this game, was so uninspiring compared to the ‘epicness’ that came with Skyrim, Uncharted, Batman, and Modern Warfare. I feel all of those games had appreciably stronger hooks at the start of the game than this did. To be honest it felt like I was just going through the motions. I didn’t care about the dude I was hunting at the start at all. Beyond that, it felt like more assassin’s creed, which is fine, and more or less what I was expecting, to be honest my motivation for getting into this one is to hear how the Desmond/Ezio story plays out, and if it had that and it was at least decent would have to conclude that the game had served it’s purpose in my eyes.

I did run into the tower defence portion of the game that I didn’t know it had. Man, what a terrible idea. I love tower defence games, I really do, but if I were to consider tower defence in an assassin’s creed game, I’d have to implement some of they game’s strengths, clearly the traversal. Maybe if they had waves coming from all angles and Ezio had to scurry all over the place to get the right defences in place it would make more sense here (maybe because it was the first one and tutorialized), but as is it feels like a completely different game in those moments, and not a very good game either.

I had a lot of expectations for this game, I thought brotherhood was the best in the series, and had continually got better since the first (which I hated). I’ll keep at it and see if any of those things get any better but this is shaping up to be my biggest disappoint of the year if the first couple hours are any indication. As I mentioned I’m in this for the story so with any luck that picks up and stops feeling disjointed.