A game that really understands what a sequel should be in regards to character writing, story, world building and gameplay.
Recruiting and using assassins in combat and stealth is peak assassin power fantasy (no need for ridiculous supernatural powers, cough originsodysseyvalhalla cough)
Ezio's brotherhood robes might be the best in the series.
Rome feels oppressive and looks great (the skybox especially is beautiful), combat while being incredibly easy like most of the Ezio trilogy still feels engaging due to the intrinsic motivation to feel like a badass assassin (piling up bodies with chain kills), you feel the impact of the kills with animations that are brutal and flashy like they should be.
However,
The cover art is honestly a sin, I get it wanted to feature the multiplayer selling point, but this could've been easily fixed if they replaced them with generic assassins you recruit for the brotherhood. Would've still gotten the multiplayer point across and made more sense in regards to Ezio's journey
Recruiting and using assassins in combat and stealth is peak assassin power fantasy (no need for ridiculous supernatural powers, cough originsodysseyvalhalla cough)
Ezio's brotherhood robes might be the best in the series.
Rome feels oppressive and looks great (the skybox especially is beautiful), combat while being incredibly easy like most of the Ezio trilogy still feels engaging due to the intrinsic motivation to feel like a badass assassin (piling up bodies with chain kills), you feel the impact of the kills with animations that are brutal and flashy like they should be.
However,
The cover art is honestly a sin, I get it wanted to feature the multiplayer selling point, but this could've been easily fixed if they replaced them with generic assassins you recruit for the brotherhood. Would've still gotten the multiplayer point across and made more sense in regards to Ezio's journey