20 LAZIEST Video Game Re-Releases They Thought You'd Buy

6. Assassin's Creed III Remastered (2019)

Despite turbulent times at Ubisoft this past decade, the studio has managed to continue development of some of its best-known games, including Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed. The latter leapt onto the scene in 2007, with the fun, if repetitive Assassin’s Creed, before coming into its own with titles like II, Brotherhood and Revelations.

There was a three-game break between the second and third instalments proper, while Renaissance protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze’s story was mined for all it was worth, and when III finally arrived in 2012 it was not quite as good, but good enough. With the action now set in eighteenth-century Colonial America, we played as half-English, half-Mohawk “Connor” Ratonhnaké:ton, living out our Last of the Mohicans fantasies in real time. And seven years on, Ubisoft dropped the remastered edition.

Seven years is a somewhat brief time for a remastered version, especially as it was just migrating from seventh onto eighth gen consoles. Included were improved mechanics and graphics, with free aiming with the bow and more intuitive UI, along with all the original DLC. However, there was no move to iron out, alter or improve the original game’s issues. The combat still had the animations that made it feel less like you were playing it than it was playing you, the stealth was somehow clunkier than previous games, and the story still bridged a lot of its narrative with exposition instead of gameplay. Not really enough to crack the wallet for.