AC3 paradox: why it although it's great, it somehow is not after all.

I have found great Assassins Creed 2 and despite the monotony of a certain playing time all researched what was possible. Brotherhood and Revelations were trying to play me from setting too similar to it with the same perseverance.
That's why I wanted to get anyway at AC3 again.

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

- As early as the first sequences coarser bugs, and I speak now not of floating muskets or limbs that stuck or horse-drawn carriage driving through walls in objects.

From mission to mission, the weapons in Waffenrad, markers and previously equipped weapon change disappear. Assassins, the real name. are traveling to execute orders, are still displayed and sit id tavern. Cutscenes are interrupted sound is missing.

It's even happened 2x that a Autrag / Mission skipped and directly the cut scene was shown, explaining how well I've just mastered this mission. Although I was not even close to the target person ID!

If the Käpitän Haytham Kenway high sends to the mast, the subsequent Render sequence does not start, instead, the camera was so bogged down that you have not seen each other and eventually crashes the lookout. This is because although there are several ways to climb up there is detected only one from the game. So if you happen to choose the wrong path in the Open World, one can not continue.
The same problem occurs a sequence later in the infiltration of a small. Forts on: if you happen to already previously one of the guards killed from this Fort, or even in a different order (which you do not get given), one can not continue and must restart the mission.

Despite Eagle Vision enemies often do not light up red, and are easier to overlook than without.

Overall, I am sorry to say that I've never seen so verbugtes and tangled game. And it has several times suspended.

- Some missions are bad or unclear programmed example. Pursuit on horseback: with very tight time window the horse on level ground freezes or does not come into the hallways so the hunted often escapes as needed. Va if you also happen to have to shoot on powder kegs, but despite Tastengehämmere does nothing. (That you can not shoot while the gallop and all buttons have to let go, you can see it only survived the joypad after many attempts When ;-)

As everywhere in AC3 is often considered trial and error. Very much is confusing and not clear.

- Large point of criticism is the new menu / Design, which has become unnecessarily complicated. There Hours pass until you know your way, making it familiar.
And so it is even more complicated, Ubisoft has no manual under a hypocritical pretext (environmental protection, dog-eared!) Enclosed! But however Extra 8 pages for 3 lines DLC codes. So much for the environment.

There are now in eg DNA menu so unnecessary point as Notification Center ", in which the last 20 messages are stored. As one reads then so interesting things like get 8 pounds. But the info is displayed in the HUD and if a boring is, you can get 8 Wozuuuu pounds below said point read. Please ???
Information Messages can not click just below this point to see what is to be done, but must back out from the menu and search under a different menu item. Search because you do not know where you can read about this job, one has only got the message that he is saved.

Even in the maps menu you must now several times by clicking and navigating with the left and right stick.

The new HUD is confusing.
Zig messages appear, you do not know if that will make only information or missions / side missions or new challenges and where to assign the much less can consult the menu. About many things you stumble only by chance, when one studies in detail the Map Menu. Because there appear once again on new sub-points. Only on one is nowhere mentioned.
That's why you often hangs in the air, because it is not visible, you can do now / must.

- The Waffenrad has verschlimmbessert to you now requires both analog sticks and directional pad to map what ever may cause a node in the brain.

Unfortunately, one must constantly get into the menu, because again and again pops up something new or is displayed. You must continuously update to know about yourself.

- The new design, it also implies that important things (the shimmer) wirkl. bad realizes even at close range. In AC2 you have already seen important points such as doors, springs, Treasures by the lights with the eagle eye clearly on distance. The new grid lines are barely visible. And with eagle vision even worse.

- German soundtrack often very very quiet. Tw. If so mumbled that one has better switched subtitles. The English. is loud, but I find surprisingly not so harmonious. (Kenway with Daniel Craig's dubbing voice sounds better :))
Great that both speech and subtitles will be displayed in all major languages. (As some may BluRay - Publication take an example.)

- Opponents are just as smart as in AC2 ;-) Although they act much (talk, move, sit, play, work ...) but rarely do they react really plausible or as intended: sometimes one is groundless striking although well hidden / camouflaged, sometimes killing JMD. in view of the enemy and nothing happens. In head-high corn field one is discovered in the 30cm high scrub not.

Classic is also that one nachpfeift a particular opponent and emerge 10 opponents from anywhere (even from behind, out of sight). This will then laboriously until you separated a little his actual victims, because sometimes you have to start a real Pfeifkonzert :)
And funny enough, it finds no noticeable when half an army constantly hinterherdackelt my whistle, and you only 1m on again turns around the corner and the same again whistles.

So even in AC3 intelligence is rather hypocritical.

- Lack of foresight.
I have not seen every detail and disturb me away aufpoppende items not particularly since one anyway only moves in its immediate vicinity id distance. But you have to have the feeling that everything belongs together, and not after 500m the "sandbox" ceases. The roofs forest and the mountain range in the distant background have given me in AC2. It has been felt in set in a large environment, it has acted as a city, just real.

In AC3 the surrounding area is great but a bit further away, the landscape looks very much like she would not be fully programmed, color and graphically so monotonous that the limit is too obvious. And that leaves me the illusion in a huge North American forest to be. What is almost common, because within this optical limit, it feels great!

Unfortunately, this impression of size is initially disturbed by the increasingly emerging animals. There's nothing wrong with that one only 15min scour the forest does not leave the player to encounter wildlife. But that almost every few seconds like in a small enclosure appears an animal or even attacks, is clearly too much! Even id first hour after hunting introduction I had killed nearly 100 pieces! Sometimes you will not budge, because you will be attacked simultaneously from several animals.

So terrific one hand, the hunt itself is made so small this imbalance can affect the forest and on the other hand so that the game world. And that, coupled with the lack of foresight to the absurd result that the world seems smaller although AC3 is actually far greater than AC2!

Graphically, the good visibility, however, really the only drawback!

PRO:

- Finally, there is no tearing, and that's great !!

- The guards now will not attack the same, just because one passes quickly. That really annoyed in AC2, it is no longer got out of the fights.
It is now clearly apparent from when a chase is provoked and when to hide along the way.

Now pedestrians also do not interfere, because you can not run into them.

The moves are just a tad bit more spectacular.

- The running and climbing trees ID works fantastic! A great feeling and perfect control. Incredibly, it works! Of that I would have liked even more :)

- The landscape and the sky look beautiful and realistic, just to rocks, trees, hills, horses, buildings exist. Nothing looks like copy-paste elements, at least one does not feel. Each forest has its own flora, looks different, different Trees, deciduous, coniferous trees, mossy, overgrown.

Leaves, butterflies, seeds, birds, squirrels, out of the water jumping fish. Not just once, you will stop relaxed and actually enjoy the scenery.

- Although the music of AC2 has conjured up more atmosphere, but mM in general is the setting, there's less at AC3 music / soundtrack rather than ambient noise.

For the soundscape is terrific! Whether crunchy snow underfoot, creaking wood, animal sounds, carts, mud, rain, wind whistles around cliffs, breakwaters, the clatter of boards, you really get the feeling of standing right in the forest or on the deck of a ship.

- The maritime missions: an absolute highlight of the game out!
The ship control is working mightily and is still simple! It would be like a child with his Playmobil pirate ship and I would say the fun and uniqueness to ride it is an experience and id videogame history to be set very high up.
It is breathtaking. The spray, the waves on the high seas, the shouts of the crew, the bustle, the rigging you are the Captain! :)

CONCLUSION:

Even if the secret Kills are nicely done (hayrides, around the corner), and this AC is anything but a Splinter Cell. That's a shame, because just as Assassin must stealth action work better. Where it would be a great challenge (eg. Forts infiltrate), it works just not really, it degenerates almost always made in a battle. Schleich missions are unpredictable and a matter of luck, despite many coverage options. So it goes unnoticed despite gunshots and explosions, often but not if you look at hiding behind a tree or in the branches. So unfortunately immature as ever.
The setting of AC3 is great but does not in my opinion quite as much or other flavor than AC2, which in general is due to the different era.

AC3 consists of many coincidences and is overall very confused: weapons disappear from the Waffenrad, marks / logos / guards / missions are displayed although there nothing (more) is.

It just hangs at the beginning of an ongoing id air side missions always sound as if you could actively but what companies eigentl. is much simple random and passive (eg find track of the bear). Eventually you stumble over it and stop it is done without any real intervention, which is not satisfactory.

The map changes frequently and displays new symbols. If you do not constantly the cards and all submenus checked out you know nothing about it.

For example, you get first things (milk, clay, hats,) od messages like System Message:. New email received only appear nowhere on this, not even id inventory. So one wonders what rightly, and remains long unaware until hours later (at random) is cleared od. It encounters.
It is zieml of the game. left alone, right from the start is valid until the end of learning by doing, over 80% of the things that you can do, or discover one stumbles only in any of the many menus. There is not a tutorial or a Trainigsarena as in AC2.
Bin only after 50 hours draufgekommen by chance on new moves. (One can also throw blunt weapons, swinging axes harder and use counter in conjunction with the dart!)

The systematics behind the menus reveals itself only gradually, as ever pass easily the first 15h. Until something new in one of the sub-items or the tooltips appears.
This unfortunately brings with it, that minimum. as much time on the menu and Kartenbidschirmen spends as in origin. Game.
Relatively quickly it uses the Fast Travel System also for shorter distances (the loading screen you get very often to see), because you just want to fritter away any more time.

Absolutely necessary ship of all the equipment, trade, manufacture of objects and edification of the community, Assassins, information, countless side quests and hundreds of collections is nothing. AC3 kills one with a flood of options, but these are not used, not even during the individual missions.

Satisfied is only the collector's passion, to have at least done it all once.

Probably you can play through the game with the basic equipment and would not have trouble. Even those who look for challenges, is not served well with the game, to the lack of the need in the game.

However, if you simply fun to experiment, will not hesitate to move in this world and probably gamble not only the main line of the story.

But even if all this looks great, it's mostly just nice accessories that should not blind us to many shortcomings.
In the end, no longer remains soo much left after a very good looks and great animations. Although it is a huge ambitious project that sees the game well, but you always have the feeling that 5o teams have started at different ends and have not really met in the middle. Maybe that explains this inconsistent and extremely confused (and also very verbugte) game.

For all these reasons I do not give AC 3 While the top grade but an experience not to be missed, it's all even if it is quite boring but again towards the end and with all its side missions. There, despite the shortcomings too many wow moments: in Story, equipment, graphics and atmosphere.

ps: The experiment with the pivots after finishing the game is only a waste of time! That it exists at all for a trophy, is almost chicane. It is only more beams from a quick trip to the nearest station and really has nothing to do with games.