I've always envied those people who love a game so much that they can play it for hundreds of hours and still have fun. I'd never been able to find a game like that for myself, unless you count league of legends, which I consider to have been an addiction, rather than something I enjoyed playing. My favourite games are generally self contained 20-30 hour single player adventures. The games that are largely considered replayable, on the other hand, are either competitive, grindy or sandboxy. I rage too much in competitive games, find grinding a boring waste of time, and don't really consider myself creative enough to come up with things to do in sandboxes. So it seemed like that infinitely replayable game in my life would forever elude me... until I played hitman world of assassination. While I would describe this game as sandboxy, it sufficiently provides you with a plethora of objectives to aim for, which means I'm not limited by my lack of inventiveness. These goals serve as the perfect guide for you to organically play with the game's mechanics in endlessly novel ways. There's seemingly a bottomless bucket of characters, disguises, interactions and tools to discover at every corner of every map. On top of this, it's absolutely hilarious in both gameplay and dialogue. I'm over 100 hours in without any sign of getting bored, and if I had to pick a single game to play for the rest of my life it would easily be this masterpiece.

Assassin's creed has always felt like a jack of all trades for me. It tries to do a lot of things but it's just okay at all of them, and this entry is no exception. Everything from the stealth, combat, exploration, story, rpg elements, etc. are good enough for what they are, but have been done better by another game. The quests are all very similar to each other, and the gameplay lacks the depth necessary to make these encounters feel fresh for very long. It doesn't do anything particularly wrong, but nothing about it really stands out.