Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD Reviews

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Worst entry in the Franchise imo. Just not a very good story. Saved only by the twist ending. Half the game you play as a slave or a Noble women and cannot parkour or use most of your weapons. Aveline is probably the weakest assassin of all time. Should have been just a few DLC missions instead of a full spin off.

Good but a small game. Worked flawlessly in my PC without any issues.

This game is a horribly optimized mess. Out of the '27 hours' I spent on it, at least 3 hours has been dealing with horrible freezes, a multitude of crashes and too many bugs to even mention. Apart from this, the game itself is also a bit of a let-down. There are some things it does better than III, namely the parkour and climbing. It feels like the earlier AC games, where climbing a tower can be like a puzzle of sorts. Sadly, this doesn't get used enough in the game. The story is alright, but it feels all over the place, moreso than the other AC titles. There are two main new features: the blowpipe and the costume/persona-system. The blowpipe is great, although a bit on the strong side, it works very well in this setting though. Roaming through the bayou, poisoning roaming guards is great. The persona system is nice in theory. In practice it's more limiting than interesting. Not all personas are able to climb or freerun. Apart from some missions, there is no point in being a different persona outside of the story sequences. The persona system also adds a bunch of persona-specific collectibles and quests, none of which are actual interesting content, and just busy-work for the completionists. Thankfully, it's a short game. Finishing just the story should be less than 10 hours. As long as it works well on your PC, and you don't care about 100%-ing this game, it might almost be worth a 5.5/10.

Really enjoyed the switching personas idea although it wasn't used enough. You can tell this was made for a portable device but it still holds up well. 100% grind is standard although the missions you have to deal with wait timers to collect resources are annoying. Would be interested in them returning to the multiple personas idea but it seems unlikely they will ever even return to this style of AC.

Yet again another disaster by Ubisoft. The game is so buggy that even the Steam overlay doesn't work. There is a bug in the game that makes your whip permanently disappear. According to a post I found, this has been a known issue from a decade ago. But an HD update is more important than fixing game-breaking bugs, great priorities. I've stumbled upon issues in this game that I have never seen in any other. Swimming in the air, vanishing into nowhere and crashing the whole game, soft locking due to an animal attack script not playing correctly, running endlessly in a certain direction after instantly killing a guard with a blank poison dart. The whole game was made on a shoestring budget, and you can certainly tell when looking at the cutscenes, or rather lack thereof. Edit: I had to replay half of the game just to get the whip back for this moronic achievement. And because you can't skip cutscenes in this dogshit game, it takes nearly twice the time. Ubisoft, kindly go fuck yourself for this little stunt.

Do not buy this game. There are SO many bugs or areas where your input doesnt register (trade system), the story is OK, but just OK. Worst bug is that it the screen goes dark (but not the HUD or the vision mode), completely randomly and more towards the end of the game than the beginning, it made the game SO much more difficult. I wouldn't recommend this game on sale. If it wasn't for the OCD of completing it, I would have uninstalled and moved on. Feel like I've lost a significant amount of time that I won't get back. I have almost every AC, I won't waste my time on any more AC games with bugs like that again.

This is not my favorite Assassin's Creed game but it's a ton of fun! Some people say it doesn't look as nice as other games, and that's true. But remember this was originally a PS Vita game. Bottom line is, if you are a big fan of the series then you'll likely have a good time with this. I wouldn't make this your first entry, though, unless you just really like the time period.

WORST Assassin Creed game EVER! Broken mechanics, bugs everywhere and awful story. Don't play this game unless you're going for the achievements like I am.

Full disclaimer: * I have been employed by Ubisoft for ~8 years (Up until 2021) and worked on the Assassin's creed series for most of that (multiple titles from AC 3 to AC Odysey, from quality assurance to level design and technical direction) * I bought this game with my own money for 9.99$ in 2014 * This is my personal opinion, and nothing else. Now with that out of the way: Getting 100% was... a frustrating, preachy mess. approximate amount of time to 100%: 15-20 Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10 Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 Multiplayer achievements: No. Missable achievements: No. Grinding Achievements: YES!. Multiple "collect all" type achievements that slowly unlock as you progress the main game. DLC-Only achievements: No. Time-gated achievements: No. Speed-run achievements: No. RNG-achievements: No. Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty choice. First achievement unlock: Complete Sequence I most likely, a couple of minutes into the game. Unobtainable/glitched achievements: Open-world jank leading to achievements breaking are possible (and reported by other users) but not in my case. Notes: * Because steam needs to open up Uplay (or whatever they call it these days) the game asks me to Login to Uplay EVERY TIME i boot it up. Even if i'm already loged in to Uplay in the Background (i literally have both apps open)... This is idiotic. * Mission select (DNA) is available. * The movement is extremely janky and only functional once you get used to it. * Despite being a console game, controller support is missing. (steam helps with it's controller features but you'll see keyboard inputs the entire game) This is because the PC port team failed horribly. * The user interface (especially in menus) was always dog-shit in all AC games. This one is way below that. As an example. try rebinding a key and realise that the you only see 5 bindings on screen at a time, and only the one you have selected is shown. This game should be taught in design schools as a negative example. * Multiplayer features (Not many, highscores, leaderboards etc..) Are now disabled. * The game was originally made for the PSVita and it shows. The only thing that doesn't show its' age and limitations are the voice acting and sound design, Everything else left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. * These days a lot of gamers are a bit sensitive to woke issues in games and this one... oh boy... it's full of both subtle and not so subtle preaching to the player about race, class etc.... While "there was an attempt" at portraying that particular age in a historic context, you can see that (in my opinion) they failed badly. * the game reails for 20$ on steam right now but it's also included with AC3 Remastered (40$). That version might feature less bugs and more QOL but i'll never know... Under 49% (way under), Not recommended.