#ASSASSIN CREED REVELATIONS PC FULL#

And once you forgive its clunky and staggered delivery, there are touching, and indeed revelatory moments to be had. It's ultimately an exercise in plot tidying, drawing together and bringing to a satisfying close the disparate threads of Ezio and Altair's stories in preparation for a hopefully more progressive Assassin's Creed 3. Assassin's Creed: Revelations remains a thrilling, violent and at times astounding adventure. Ezio's Sex and the City monologues as he pens expositional missives to his sister back home, just in case you were wondering, are Ubisoft's storytelling at its second worst.īut while these mutant additions might not fall neatly into the existing Assassin's formula, that formula still prevails. This is Ubisoft's storytelling at its worst. All the while Desmond ruminates on his life as a whiny, unwilling assassin, as if being an assassin wasn't the coolest thing in the world. It's a visual spectacle in places, though the actual puzzles feel like a poor man's Portal as you conjure up magical platforms to navigate the space. Dropping you into a first-person, Desmond's eye-view perspective, these chapters take place in virtual puzzle rooms not far removed from those of Aperture Science, where cubic, concrete and dark rooms are pierced by streaks of burning natural light. For every five of these you discover, a new chapter of Desmond's backstory is unlocked back on Animus Island. New collectibles appear in the form of hidden Animus data fragments. Infrequently useful ziplines, which, it soon becomes obvious, prompted its inclusion. Just as with bombs, there's a certain inelegance, as it stabs illogically, clanks loudly on ledges and jerks to one side as you mount ziplines. Pedants, meanwhile, will find it irritating that despite the obviously hooked end of his new blade, Ezio can stab with it as if it were still sharp. It also comes with its own sickening combat animations – including one in which Ezio unapologetically hooks somebody in the face.

#ASSASSIN CREED REVELATIONS PC FULL#

The hookblade also enables your new double jump when climbing, and allows you to evade guards by running towards them at full whack and 'rolling' over them. These not only allow for quick and dramatic access to restricted areas, but enable a new method of assassination of guards who loiter underneath these aerial assassin thoroughfares. Instead you'll ignore those hitherto glistening treats, with glum resignation.Ī new hookblade replaces one of your regular stabby wristblades, which is incredibly useful given that Constantinople is strewn with ziplines. Rather more saddening is that you'll soon be carrying as many bomb ingredients as is permitted, until your magpie instinct for looting chests withers and drops off entirely. The alternative of open combat or impromptu parkour requires less mental effort, and you'll find yourself relying on these escape methods more.

But bombs feel as brash, blunt and clumsy as Ezio isn't, requiring you to reconfigure your fingers and brain to unfamiliar positions to use them. Almost every chest in the city contains a sort of gunpowder or bomb casing, and the cities you conquer shower you with daily deliveries of bomb ingredients. The game seems awkwardly obsessed with its new bombs. The usefulness of these devices varies depending on whether or not you remember they exist, and it's remarkably easy to forget that they do. Ezio can use bomb ingredients to construct dozens of different kinds of exciting explosives, from sticky shrapnel bombs and stink bombs to poison-gas tripwires and pedestrianslowing caltrop grenades. Bombs and bomb-crafting have arrived too, in case you don't remember requesting this feature.

Assassin creed revelations pc