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08. Jan 2013
Best game of the series and the best game I've played this year.
It has great story that is complicated but not too difficult to follow. It brings to life the history of Colonial America the good and the bad. It brings some of the great American founding Fathers into various roles without filtering them through a prism of romanticism, as real flawed human beings. Native relations are a major issue in the story as one would expect with a half-British half-Mohawk lead character and the story deals with The American Revolutionary War, of course, but it also explores issues and ideas like racism, freedom versus order, the right to property, whether ends justify means, and, most importantly, whether anyone is truly good or evil. The greatest part about this game is the moral ambiguity of both the "good guys" and the "bad guys". Sometimes the lines between the two get a little fuzzy. Even the main antagonists of the series, the Templars, get to make their case, which is not altogether unreasonable or justified. *SPOILER ALERT* Connor's own father is a Templar leader, as he comes to find out. And, while he knows that his father is wrong, that what the Templars are doing is bad, he still sees true good in his father and strives to change him. They even fall on the same side of things occasionally and team up a few times in the course of the story's events. *END SPOILERS* The action in this game is awesome. Taking on a dozen guys at once, getting into kill streaks, using human shields from gun fire, hanging enemies from trees... the versatility of combat in this game is amazing and feels very fluid. The complex story line, the realistic portrayal of characters historical and fictional, and the real heart of the main character, Connor really make this game for me, but even if you don't care an ounce about the story and just want to get to the killing, you will not be disappointed.