Assassin's Creed 3 PS3 reviews

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4.3 out of 5 stars Based on 205 Customer Ratings

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"Bad Start but amazing Ending"
4 stars"

The game was quite boring for the first 4 chapters as your playing as the english dude. but once you get past him it gets so much better! loving the skinning and hunting you can do, alot like Far Cry 3 in that matter. So Very excellent after the english guy.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
"Best Installment In The Series."
5 stars"

After having played and finished this game, I can say that this is definitely the best installment in the series to date. They have just gone all out on this game, it's like AC2 on steroids. The Revolution was the perfect setting for this game. It is a must have in your collection!

4 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
"FANTASTIC, but not the best"
5 stars"

Dont get me wrong this is an amazing game, but i prefered almost everything about the Ezio games, the ship combat in this is freaking kool though, not a fan of the ending, (you'll know what i mean when you see it) but yeah great game overall

2 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
"Amazing"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Truly a breathtaking game. Amazing graphics, lot to explore, however some minor voice-over and screen tearing glitches but nothing much to complain about, overall a really good, exciting game.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
"Loving it"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Sick graphics and a different take on assassins creed from the others

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
"Amazing"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

I love the new weponds the graphics and plot

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
"A let down."
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

If you're a die hard assassin's creed fan, don't play. This game should have been the biggest game of the decade, but instead it serves to kick it's long serving fans of the franchise in the face at EVERY turn.

The gameplay lacks, full of game breaking bugs, and ends terribly.

Nope/10

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
"Doesn't hold a candle to predecessors but still a good game."
3 stars"

I've played through the entire series now and this seems like a step back from the majestic beauty in the previous games. For the sake of their story America was the location, climbing to viewpoints does not fill you with awe when all you can see is bricks and fog, the draw distance seems significantly lower too with very noticeable scenery pop in. Free running through trees is fairly impressive but seems to come at the cost of free running on buildings being worse. Naval combat is surprisingly fun. The crafting/trading is tedious. Connor isn't the most colourful character. Assassin's Creed 2 was the highpoint to me and this is probably tied last with Revelations, not to say it's a bad game but they could have done far better.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
"If you care about product support, AVOID"
1 stars"

Ubisoft Support are literally the single worst support service I've had to try and deal with in the past 30 years.

If you buy Ubisoft products, and anything – anything at all – goes wrong, expect at least 3 times their estimated response time before you see any reply. When (or if) you hear back, it's unlikely that their first 3 months' worth of responses will actually include even a single sentence that relates directly to what you asked. Keep pushing, and even if you get “that's a known issue, we're working on it” there's not much chance that anything will ever be done about the problem.

This particular game isn't totally horrible (unless you care about the multiplayer, which is broken), but rather than merely not recommending the purchase of Ubisoft products, I'd specifically advise people to avoid anything from the company. If you find a problem, trying to get a solution probably won't be worth your trouble.

Also, while the gameplay is good, there are still bugs in the game engine – most of them carried over direct from the previous games. More content AND less bugs should be expected in a 5th installment (counting the two AC2 spin-off games), but that isn't the case here. It's particularly puzzling when you consider this game has supposedly been in development for 3 years, and is built on a “new” game engine (it doesn't act like anything more than the first game's engine with another facelift though). The first Assassin's Creed was actually in a better state in terms of animation quality, and had less glitches than this game does.

Graphically, each individual frame looks amazing. Screenshots show off the incredible detail in the game, but when you watch all the games in the series in action, the positive impression unravels. From the first game on, each game has more detail on-screen, but with choppier animations because of it. One of the biggest points in favour of the original was the fluid way Altaîr moved. That major selling point has been diminished as the series has grown.

Compared with most games outside the series, even the worst Assassin's Creed release is still very fluid, with all the animations tying together quite neatly, but the only game in the series which AC3 compares favourably with in this regard is Revelations.

Along with the graphical problems, there are issues with clipping. The player character and some NPCs sometimes fall through the ground, move through walls and other objects, and just generally fail to react with anything like the realistic physics the game usually tries to work with.

In spite of all that, I won't say the single player experience is bad – the problems with it, while annoying at times, aren't common enough to completely ruin the experience. There have been other games I've enjoyed with worse bugs. But don't buy it for the multiplayer, and there's more reason to expect bug fixes in Kingdoms of Amalur (the developers no longer exist) than there is for anything with the Ubisoft brand.

If it weren't for the aggressively unhelpful attitude of their “support” service, I'd probably rate this 3 or 4 stars, but when customers are not merely being ignored, but pushed away for trying to help the company improve their products, even the single solitary star I'm rating this with seems like a generous offering.

1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
"SIMPLY GREAT" Purchased on Mighty Ape

great game, im loving it, and im only on sequence 3. all feedback is positive, though this does seem to lag/freeze quite a bit, which is a bit disappointing, though expected with such a great looking game

1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
"Awesome"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Love it

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Excelent"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Great value cheapest on the net

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Excellent follow on"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Good graphics,good all round game.Looking forward to purchaing the next one

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Assassin creed never fails to impress :-D"
5 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Once again the assassin creed series has come out with another awesome game with great added features and improved combat and wicked graphics keep it up guys !!

Great fast delivery once again mighty ape :-D

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Wonderful"
5 stars"

A brilliant end to a fabulous series which has stolen many gaming hearts and has been one of the best gaming series of all time. I'm pretty sure AC3 would be top contender for game of the year 2012 and would really deserve it.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Awesome game"
5 stars"

But I diden't really know much about it though but I got it with a ps3 it came with it was the first game I loaded with my ps3 and its pretty fun enjoy it alot mostly the graphics gameplay is awesome

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"AMAZING...."
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Story mode is as good as ever and the multiplayer is pretty good.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
""Simply adventures"" Purchased on Mighty Ape

Great graphics and tuned fighting mechanics, the parkour styled running especially through the homes of folk adds a great feel of realism and makes you feel like your headed into an adventure you wont forget.. AC3 is everything I expected it would be.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
"Amazing game, great carry-on of the series"
5 stars"

This game is amazing, I happily sunk plenty of hours into this, and every minute of gameplay was riveting and exciting. The combat system is awesome, the graphics are beautiful, and this is one of the very best games in the series. An absolute must-buy if you've played the first two games.

"Lots of fun"
4 stars"
Purchased on Mighty Ape

Me and boyfriend play this together generally I run around jumping on and off things and he fights. Its lots of fun and id highly reccomend it