Assassin's Creed: 3 Reasons Connor Is Far Better Than Ezio

By C.J. /

"This series stopped being good after the Ezio trilogy." "Ezio is the best character in the franchise. The rest are boring." "The last good game in the series was AC2." "Ezio is way better than Connor. Connor is just so boring." These are statements you will find whenever anything about AC3 or Black Flag is brought up. Since AC4 has yet to be released and AC3 is the only game to follow Ezio's trilogy, it is impossible for one to say the first statement convincingly. Now for some reason, there seems to be this common idea that Ezio is the best thing to happen to series, but I would argue that the Renaissance is in fact the best thing to happen to it. You need only to look at Revelations and it becomes painfully obvious that Ezio can barely carry an intriguing story and that was at his most developed point. Because frankly, Ezio is extremely generic (Altair was also generic, but he didn't get a trilogy, did he?) People frequently claim that AC is turning into Call Of Duty, when ironically, the Ezio trilogy seems to be aimed more at COD fans due to its clear lack of philosophy that was present in the first installment. But for the most part, people leave Altair alone (probably out of respect for starting it all) and seem to take cheap shots at Connor, but the character is superior to Ezio, and here is why...