10 Miserable Continuations Of Iconic Video Games That Ended In Disaster

Assassin’s Creed 3 – incomprehensibly, the fifth instalment in the series – received a mixed critical reception. After all, it was completely functional, but utterly unimaginative, as well as mind-numbingly tedious. In the three years since the release of Assassin’s Creed 2, the series had become noticeably stale, and was in desperate need of a renaissance (pun most certainly intended), but Assassin’s Creed 3 was nothing of the sort.

For one thing, the story involved watching men sign documents in cut-scenes, trailing endlessly after NPCs in a forgettable, bland environment, and engaging guards in monotonous combat sequences.

Turns out, the time-period and setting weren’t necessarily compatible with the requirements of an open-world action/adventure game, the entire experience lacking any sense of personality, excitement or narrative investment.

Thankfully, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag turned things around several years later, revitalising the franchise with a healthy dose of swashbuckling plundering, high seas adventures, and your very own pirate ship.