Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Pros

• Ezio trilogy, especially ACBH, is what peak Ubisoft looked like
• The game is actually paced much faster than AC2 because of the shorter runtime and streamlined fast travel system. This means you're pretty much never allowed to get bored, even when you're doing side activities throughout the city.
• This game has a special place in my heart and I think it deserves a big hand for being a perfect evolution of the AC formula established in 2, which is a rarity in Ubisoft's catalogue for certain.
• And wow, is this combat so much better. Assassin's Creed has never really had perfect combat systems, and I wouldn't even say any of them had *good* combat until here, three games in.
• Rome is also one of the most fun settings to explore in AC and among the best maps to clear in pretty much any open world game I've played. Not even getting to how the game's collectibles aren't obnoxious anymore, Borgia Towers are a gen...

Cons

• the more I play of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the less I think I like it. I mentioned in Friday’s thread that I thought a lot of the padding and bloat in the franchise started here... so many of the new systems introduced exist just...
• I also hated the 50% sync mechanic. It created FOMO and pulled you right out of the immersion because it forced you to complete missions in these tough and stupid ways, or else you’d lose literally half the credit.
• On paper, AC:B improved on a lot of aspects of AC2, including the combat, the visuals, the villains, the Desmond content, and the real world structures. But as an overall product, I found AC2 to be a far better game. AC:B took a massive...
• One problem I do have with the game is full synching missions. ... there's pretty much no point to doing all those annoying 8 minute Romulus Lair runs other than to get that number up to 100% arbitrarily, which can feel like a MASSIVE ch...
• One problem I do have with the game is full synching missions. I love the idea of side objectives like in Unity that would earn you bonus stuff, but the problem is that you don't get a unique reward (from what I've researched) for full s...