Listen, I've played this game before on the Xbox 360 and I wasn't a fan of it back then. Nothing has really changed on this recent attempt of a playthrough on PS3. I dedicated myself (in a fit of insanity or something) to play through every single Assassin's Creed game in 2021, and I already have access to almost every single game in the series. In this attempt to start the series back up again, I noticed how poorly this first game runs on PS3. Constant frame drops below 30 FPS (I'm no Digital Foundry employee, but I wouldn't doubt the game drops below 20 in many cases) make this game completely unplayable a good chunk of the time. The frequent screen-tearing, lack of subtitle options in the menus, and the convoluted nonsense you need to do to quit to the main menu are just absurd.

I'm just going to watch a video recap of the story of this game then get going with Assassin's Creed II.