Assassins Creed Revelations
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So it comes to the final installment of Ezio Auditore da Firenze’s journey as an Assassin. Fans of the franchise will be familiar with the game mechanics. A free roam world where any building or wall is climbable and any vantage point can be reached. Players are treated to a beautiful and complex world to explore.
Brotherhood, the previous installment, was a great leap forward and a huge improvement in its genre. It introduced an amazing and unique multiplayer game mode which is perhaps one of the most adrenaline fueled online experiences available. Revelations has built on this but essential not much has changed. Whether you think Revelations is just a cash cow to milk from the successful formula or not, I would argue that Ubisoft have made another highly entertaining game.
Some of the missions in the single player do feel similar to the previous installments. In an aim to keep the game fresh the additions to the game change the dynamics but only slightly. The addition of the hookblade means that once unreachable jumps are now possible, allowing players to get to even better vantage points and opens up new routes of escape for players to explore. One of the best additions to Revelations is the ability to use your trainee Assassins and your Assassin guild in siege mini games that take place on all new Assassin hideouts. This allows the player to become a master tactician by placing Assassins on rooftops to take out waves of Templar opponents and guide the Assassins to victory. The other most notable addition to the single player is the introduction of bomb crafting. Different type of bombs can be crafted and used to cause destruction or used tactically to cause a diversion.
Revelations has built on the successful, but unfortunately underplayed, multiplayer. The multiplayer is a hilarious but challenging beast to tackle. In every game mode there is a constant weighting up in the players mind whether to go for a contract kill at the risk of giving yourself away. Blending in is the key and being constantly aware of your surroundings. The aim of the game is being smart and trying to fool your opponents. One of the most important things to bare in mind when playing is that you are going to die… a lot. This isn’t necessarily that important, the game rewards the style of your kill over the standard kill to death ratio. Players earn more points for classy and stealthy kills than kills where a player is obvious. Running along the rooftops and jumping down with an air assassination may look cool but as it’s not the most stealthy of assassinations and will only score a player minimal points.
Using customisable perks such as ‘Disguise’ and ‘Decoy’ are fun ways to try and outsmart your opponents whilst ‘Firecrackers’ and ‘Smoke bombs’ allow the player to create distractions or ways to stun your opponents. This is no ordinary multiplayer, this is one unique experience that takes a bit of getting used to. Your average FPS fan may find it hard to resist the urge to chase down targets. Do this at your peril as a player that does this will end up at the bottom of the leaderboard.
Whilst Revelations is not a huge departure from the previous games in the franchise, this is the best game in the series so far. Overall the game is hugely enjoyable and the multiplayer is extremely fun and completely different to any other multiplayer experience on the market.
8/10
RazorRich at mlm
So it comes to the final installment of Ezio Auditore da Firenze’s journey as an Assassin. Fans of the franchise will be familiar with the game mechanics. A free roam world where any building or wall is climbable and any vantage point can be reached. Players are treated to a beautiful and complex world to explore.
Brotherhood, the previous installment, was a great leap forward and a huge improvement in its genre. It introduced an amazing and unique multiplayer game mode which is perhaps one of the most adrenaline fueled online experiences available. Revelations has built on this but essential not much has changed. Whether you think Revelations is just a cash cow to milk from the successful formula or not, I would argue that Ubisoft have made another highly entertaining game.
Some of the missions in the single player do feel similar to the previous installments. In an aim to keep the game fresh the additions to the game change the dynamics but only slightly. The addition of the hookblade means that once unreachable jumps are now possible, allowing players to get to even better vantage points and opens up new routes of escape for players to explore. One of the best additions to Revelations is the ability to use your trainee Assassins and your Assassin guild in siege mini games that take place on all new Assassin hideouts. This allows the player to become a master tactician by placing Assassins on rooftops to take out waves of Templar opponents and guide the Assassins to victory. The other most notable addition to the single player is the introduction of bomb crafting. Different type of bombs can be crafted and used to cause destruction or used tactically to cause a diversion.
Revelations has built on the successful, but unfortunately underplayed, multiplayer. The multiplayer is a hilarious but challenging beast to tackle. In every game mode there is a constant weighting up in the players mind whether to go for a contract kill at the risk of giving yourself away. Blending in is the key and being constantly aware of your surroundings. The aim of the game is being smart and trying to fool your opponents. One of the most important things to bare in mind when playing is that you are going to die… a lot. This isn’t necessarily that important, the game rewards the style of your kill over the standard kill to death ratio. Players earn more points for classy and stealthy kills than kills where a player is obvious. Running along the rooftops and jumping down with an air assassination may look cool but as it’s not the most stealthy of assassinations and will only score a player minimal points.
Using customisable perks such as ‘Disguise’ and ‘Decoy’ are fun ways to try and outsmart your opponents whilst ‘Firecrackers’ and ‘Smoke bombs’ allow the player to create distractions or ways to stun your opponents. This is no ordinary multiplayer, this is one unique experience that takes a bit of getting used to. Your average FPS fan may find it hard to resist the urge to chase down targets. Do this at your peril as a player that does this will end up at the bottom of the leaderboard.
Whilst Revelations is not a huge departure from the previous games in the franchise, this is the best game in the series so far. Overall the game is hugely enjoyable and the multiplayer is extremely fun and completely different to any other multiplayer experience on the market.
8/10
RazorRich at mlm