Vaya wrote:
it's nowhere near being challanging, you have no effect on the storyline, the combat animations are nice but the mechanics are very basic also in AC3 you can hunt animals and you gain money, then there's nothing to do with those, you already start with the best weapon and armor, feels like the dev team isn't even worried about that, more focused on other aspects.
You can't have any effect on the storyline, you are simply reliving your ancestor's memories so you can't alter what happened, any attempt at doing so will result in desynchronisation. That's how AC gets away with it's sort of linear story.
But I do agree that the new mechanics introduced in AC3 are poorly integrated. The crafting bit was pretty pointless and I never used it at all, also I didn't upgrade my ship but that's because I never did any optional naval missions anyways (I know I should have, but I already finished the main story, so I had no motivation), same with hunting, it was there, but that's it. It seems Ubisoft wanted the game to be authentic, but only got part of it right.