No new Assassin’s Creed this year
Spend five minutes in my company (you lucky people) and one thing will become clear: I’m the world’s biggest Assassin’s Creed apologist. And proud of it too.
I doubt I’m alone in that my love for the series exists in a bizarre duality: one half of me, the rational side perhaps, instinctively knows the series has grown progressively stale and limp since 2010’s excellent and criminally-underrated Brotherhood. The other half, the boyish fop who should know better, can’t help but get caught up in the excitement of a new AC slinking into view.
A new city. A fresh-faced assassin. Different villains. A brand new soundtrack. Hell, the prospect of another needlessly expensive special edition collecting dust and lusty looks of possession on a shelf in my office. Excite.
I should know better, really – I’m like an addict who mentally disassociates himself from the act and assumes the role of idle spectator, watching as I step across another Ubisoft threshold with hope glittering in my eyes, only to have that hope slowly eroded by a crushing sense of over-familiarity so acute it’s practically corporeal.
Breaking the cycle
But, even as an unashamed addict, I’m greeting the latest grist for the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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