Assassin's Creed III-5/10

I left the series in 2011 after Brotherhood's ending pissed me off and I didn't like where the series was headed. After Origins was revealed I made it a point to replay every game I missed in the last 6 years.

This game is a mess. Maybe it was more impressive when it first came out, but it is a mess. I have never encountered more glitches in a mainstream game of a huge franchise.

Character designs and animations were wonky as hell. The walk/run of Desmond and Connor looks really weird for no reason at all, they look like cartoons. Desmond's face has also had....plastic surgery....again....and he looks like a monkey.

Desmond gets an epic sequence that delivers on what was promised at the end of ACII, but after that his story ends very poorly.

Connor's story doesn't really go anywhere. The way his and Haytham's connection was handled was poor and throwaway.

There's more story to chew on here than in Black Flag, but Connor is not very likeable as an adult. He was decent as a teenager, but as a man he is angry all the time and very wooden.

Also the came has some very anti-American propaganda in it that I did not appreciate.

Overall, some brilliant moments peppered into an otherwise bad and disappointing game.