Positives:
+ Large game world with deteilreicher environment
+ Combat system now much more demanding because blocking and counter-attacking must be timed and not so easy to go of his hand as still in its predecessors
+ Varied level design
+ Comprehensive Economic System
+ Maritime missions
Negatives:
- Conner is dealt with too quickly. Ezio Auditore life was told in 3 games and had built up veritable sympathy for this protagonist. Conners life history affects, however, almost broken knee and it would be much more material was available. Conner was a new protagonist, but no more interesting than Ezio. Too Bad.
- Occasional annoying bugs under current patch version (sticking, severe AI weaknesses)
- Course of action disappointed towards the end (voltage was less available)
- Desmond Miles history and the experiences of the "predecessor" act hastily to a (provisional) end cobbled together
- Economic system complex but unnecessary
Pushed expansion of Assassins' Guild in the background and Atmospheric not attractively presented -
Why, despite so many criticisms still 5 stars?
Because it is a clean produced game still. It is varied, motivated to continue playing, kicks many ways to play, whether Hau-top or hidden in the dark operierend and because it still brings the typical Assassins Creed flair with it, even if the turnaround is unusual and difficult in the new world of America as it was the case in medieval Europe and the Middle East.