Assassin’s Creed® III Reviews

Please consider this more of an analytical haiku than a review. Connor. ...Connor. "You look like a Spaniard, so let's name you Connor." "Call us if you need us." (This is said to prisoner Connor, five meters from the Scaffold. Connor confidently walks onto the scaffold. His plan is to just get hanged, and then kill everyone. He then gets hanged, and goes to kill everyone.) Connor.

this game in general in very nice but this edition a little bit boring while preveiws ones much exited.

Stuck on a gamebreaking bug halfway through the game

[h1]Assassin’s Creed III[/h1] [h3][Positives][/h3] - The time period is really cool. It’s great to see a recreation of the American Revolution and the people surrounding it. - Gameplay feels pretty solid. It feels a bit more refined in some areas, but combat feels too easy. - The OST is pretty good. - Solid graphics and art style. - Some of the missions are pretty cool, especially some of the more historical ones. - Some side content is surprisingly good considering this is a Ubisoft game. The homestead missions and finding Captain Kidd’s treasure stick out as pretty solid side missions. - Being able to upgrade the homestead by doing it’s missions is neat. - The forest areas are pretty immersive and have great sound design. - Hunting is neat, although very basic. - The naval combat is pretty cool. It’s much more limited compared to Assassin’s Creed IV though. [h3][Mixed][/h3] - It’s neat to see new environments in the series, but the map isn’t quite as fun to traverse. Lots of this game consists of wide open land, which isn’t ideal for an Assassin’s Creed game. [h3][Negatives][/h3] - Requires a Ubisoft Connect account. - This version of the game was delisted in favor of the remaster. - Online services (including multiplayer) were shut down in 2022. This also included blocking new players from activating their DLC, blocking players from content that they paid for. - The story has some issues. Connor is a boring character with little personality, though this fits in somewhat with his backstory, it’s very jarring compared to Ezio. The Desmond plot in this game is a rushed and disappointing end to his arc, which the series never really recovered from with the modern plot lines in any of the following games. Originally, this game was meant to be the conclusion of the series, but Ubisoft scrapped the original ending in favor of extending the series. - The opening of the game is a bit long. - Typical Ubislop collectible spam. - The lock-picking mini game is a bit annoying. - The crafting system is convoluted. - Cutscenes don’t reflect your outfit choices and will always show Connor’s default outfit. - The game is very buggy. It’s actually one of the buggiest games in the series in my experience. I’ve gotten softlocked by clipping into buildings, gotten stuck and softlocked when exiting hay carts, sometimes Connor will face the wrong direction in side mission cutscenes, waypoints will sometimes place themselves on the map without you actually setting it, sometimes the map will bug when zooming out and show no icons, etc. -Physics can also glitch when playing above ~80 FPS. Playing the game at a 60 FPS cap is recommended. - No anisotropic filtering or borderless windowed mode. V-Sync is forced in single player unless you tweak the .ini settings file. Forced mouse acceleration. - Lots of pop-in and aliasing even on max settings. [h3][Conclusion][/h3] Asssassin’s Creed III is a solid game, but it’s one of the weaker links of classic AC. The gameplay and visuals feel refined, but the story and characters are lacking. The ending is disappointing, but overall it’s a game worth playing if you like the franchise. 7/10

Wanted to retry the game years after my first playthrough so I could get 100% achivement on Steam. What a god awful game that is, the constant white flashing screens when you navigate menus, the time wasted on Desmond and Haytham that you just want to speed through so you can enjoy the Connor gameplay, the sh*tty checkpoint system coupled with your inability to CROUCH BY YOURSELF making you stand in tall grasses like a dumbass while you get spotted. In short, it is an unpolished port of an unpolished game.

A disappointing entry into the otherwise riveting Ezio's chronicles that preceded it. The game is plagued by poor and bland writing, with a flat and uninteresting main character, predictable scripted missions, horrible side objectives, forced plot points and battles to tailor to the American Revolutionary War, and plenty of "chores" and side tasks that do not add much value to the main game. The environment, be it New York, Boston, or the Frontier, offer little to do to the player. A lot of the mechanics were unpolished - such as lockpicking, fast travel, and sailing - which were jarring to learn and master. Finishing this game felt like completing a homework assignment than the usual exploration, mysteries, and twists that accompany an Assassin's Creed game. AC3 is just not a fun game. The silver lining was that, thanks to this game, AC4 Black Flag could reach the heights that it had in 2013 with polished sailing, exploration, and world map.

Assassin's Creed 3 was not what I expected, the story was pretty boring. I expected to see more missions centered around the American Revolution, but you spend very little time exploring that part of the game in my opinion. and the game has a lot of bugs that make it hard to enjoy,so while there were some good things that were definitely fun, the majority of the game wasn't very entertaining and I can't recommend it.

I have nothing but good memories from playing this game, I'm sure it holds up fine with the remastered version that I am going to play soon hopefully. 8/10 if i remember correctly

Still the worst Assassin's Creed for me. As a sequel to one of the series' best, this game was really up against it... and it failed on most accounts. While the game has a somewhat interesting premise, its storyline is dragged out for far too long with forced tedious quests (chores) that dance around introducing the game's many useless mechanics. This isn't helped by its overly vast setting and landscape that for the most part has little going on outside of the small town areas and main port. Unfortunately, this couldn't come anywhere close the historic landscapes of Italy or Constantinople from the previous games. A huge disappointment overall and a huge step in the wrong direction.

I love getting flashed by a white screen every tiny loading screen. Managed to lost my save file due to using Ubsisoft version once and then Steam version.