Competitors are important and necessary to a free market capitalist system. I am not a capitalist; I am an Evil Overlord. In my line of work competitors simply distract me from my main task, taking over the world. There is an easy way to do this, dispose of them. Simple. Only they to will try to dispose of me, therefore I must engage in more cunning tactics. In the interest of showing the citizens of my soon to be Empire the truth about my competitors, I have had my minions compile a list of their pros and cons.
Title: Assassins Creed III
Genre: Storyline RPG
Likes: People who like to master gameplay, creating combination attacks for optimal kills and achievements. The game targets young men (as it seems most games do) through use of character class - Assassin; character skills - parkour and fighting; and Character setting - 'ancient' or 'rustic' cities, non-traditional (from an American point of view) cultures and values, and mercenary storyline.
Dislikes: Casual gamers who find the mastery of techniques tedious. Also the amount of cinematic material may discourage some players who are more interested in action than plot.
My Likes: I enjoy the gameplay, the engine they use allows for a wide variety of movement, though in this version of the game it seems to be somewhat 'sticky' at times. Its almost too easy to stay on platforms and climb walls making the gameplay less emersive as you must play around to get off of something. The world seems to be well built without many invisible barriers keeping you within the game world. The storyline is also interesting.
Dislikes: There is only so much cinematic material I can take before I will put the controller down and go eat ice cream. This game definitely surpassed that limit. If I hadn't been in class I would have made me a nice bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with Magic Shell and sprinkles on top. It was that bad. As I noted above I think the earlier games boasted a better physics engine than this version. Those are really my main peeves with this game as the set up of the series has been very well done.
Interaction: The player has rather good control over the character. The character will walk or run, climb, jump, and attack all at the whim of the player. There is also an almost unlimited combination of these commands allowing for a wide variety of actions to be carried out. Along with these base actions other special occasion commands are available in certain situations.
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