20 Remakes and Remasters That Are Worse Than The Original

8. Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (2016)

Despite being around for almost two decades now, action-adventure stealth series Assassin's Creed has arguably never surpassed its initial run of games. After a solid if repetitive first entry, Ubisoft Montreal seriously stepped up with 2009’s Assassin's Creed II, introducing us to assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in a fully-realised Renaissance Italy. Following Ezio’s journey from rich boy to rogue, we uncover a conspiracy by the Templar Order, develop weaponry with Leonardo Da Vinci, and explore a massive open world of cities and keeps, stealing, slaying and uncovering secrets as we go.

The game’s sequels, Brotherhood and Revelations (released in rapid succession in 2010 and 2011), continue Ezio’s story through the Italian Wars, and out to Constantinople (or Istanbul?) in the aftermath. They’re tight, pacey, look great, play seamlessly, and offer a continuous story that feels as fulfilling as any other game’s narrative we can think of. As such, it was almost mandatory that these games be collected, remastered and released as The Ezio Collection.

Released on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016, the collection dashed our hopes and dreams from the get. Despite being presented on the next generation of consoles, the graphics are basically unchanged, with plenty of questionable visuals that aren’t present in the originals; the gameplay is also the same, with no attempt to bring it up to current standards; and the framerate is capped at 30fps. Nuff said.