MetaCritic Score: 74-78 What It Deserved: 62 While Ubisoft do deserve a small measure of credit for learning from Unity's horrendous launch and releasing the latest Assassin's Creed title in a playable state on all platforms, it's still largely business as usual for the franchise: a few inconsequential additions, a shiny new locale...and tons of repetitive, dispassionate missions. That's right: it's the same old story with a different lick of paint, and it's fascinating that so many entries deep, critics are still willing to give it a 70+ average for what's largely cut-and-paste game design. For all but the most hardcore fans, the formula feels ready to collapse spectacularly under its own lack of imagination and ambition. Smartly, 2016 sees no new core Creed games hitting the market, as Ubisoft reportedly plan to ditch the tired annualised format, which will hopefully up the series' quality at least a little.
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