7. Assassin's Creed 3
AC3 wasn't a bad game, I enjoyed it a lot and still go back to it now with over 50 hours clocked on it. The problem is, it wasn't an Assassin's Creed game. Sure I had a hidden blade and I was assassinating people after stalking them, but it didn't follow the main focus of an AC game, assassins against Templars. If I had to give this game a name it would be "Connor: The American War of Independence - Now with added ship and trading simulators" because it sure as hell wasn't part of the AC series. I enjoyed controlling Desmond more however and it was at times like this that I really did feel like I was playing AC, but sadly there wasn't enough of this to live up to the hype this game received. After the ending of Revelations, you could tell that the next game was going to be great. Desmond had the location of the First Civilization's vault and it seemed that the entire story would come to close. After playing as Haytham for a few hours and chuckling at Ubisoft's little plot twist I thought that I'd get what I wanted, a fitting end to the AC series. Sadly it's from here that the story went downhill, whilst I may have enjoyed playing as Connor it felt more that I was aiding Connor in his revenge against the British and his father than aiding the assassins. Connor may be wearing the assassin's garb and taking out targets in a similar fashion to Ezio, but when I was actually playing WITH Haytham who was a templar I realised what this game was. Ubisoft may have claimed that it wouldn't be an anti-British game and you'd be on both sides, but it seems that this is only the case for when you were playing as Haytham for the first 2 hours. After that you were merely aiding the Americans whilst assassinating the odd Templar agent. I don't want to turn this into an AC3 review so all I can say is that for an overly-hyped sequel, Ubisoft failed to deliver an Assassin's Creed game. It was fun to play and I enjoyed many aspects in the game, but I didn't feel like I was an assassin fighting against the Templars.