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Assassin's Creed Revelations is an action-adventure game. You play as the assassin Ezio Auditore for the third and final act of the "Ezio Trilogy", this time set in Constantinople during the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
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Pros
Pro Intuitive stealth gameplay
The stealth mechanics feel natural and fluid in how strategic they are.
While tracking your targets, you blend in with each city's citizens or climb up to the tops of buildings to perch there and avoid getting spotted by the templar or their guards. You can either wait for the perfect opportunity to strike with a hidden blade up your sleeve that silently assassinates your target, or you can go all-out and have a sword duel with them if you'd rather take a more aggressive approach. After they're dead, you make your escape and become incognito again.
Everything goes together nicely in a way that feels satisfying.
Pro Innovative multiplayer with online co-op for up to four friends
The multiplayer in Assassin's Creed Revelations offers a unique experience. It mixes the series' stealth mechanics with cat and mouse gameplay through a few different multiplayer modes.
Manhunt is the most interesting one, where you play one round with one team of four as the hunters and the other team of four as the hunted. The hunters have to kill as many of the opposing team as possible in the allotted time, whether it's through pure speed that offers fewer points, sneaky doses of lethal poison for tons of bonus points, and plenty more. The hunted, if they spot their hunters, can use certain defensive abilities like smoke bombs and disguises to outsmart their opponents, stun them, and then run away.
Other modes like Wanted offer a pure PvP experience with you against the full lobby of other players, where you try to stay hidden while making kills. For all gameplay modes, there's the neat, but chilling effect of hearing whispers as an opponent gets closer to you; trying to distinguish which way they're coming from while staying hidden. This and the sheer unpredictability of the gameplay makes the multiplayer incredibly addicting and fun.
Pro Interesting story of Assassins versus Templars
The story in Assassin's Creed Revelations is full of intriguing ideologies and philosophies. It's a familiar tale of liberty and freedom on the Assassin side and law and order on the Templar side, but it still feels fresh. Playing as Ezio, it's up to you to assassinate certain templar targets who oppress the masses and horde power for themselves. As you take them down, you learn about their views on controlling the populace, encouraging you to question if the assassins are truly on the right path. Thankfully, the game doesn't tell you what to think, leaving you to draw your own conclusions.
Pro Excellent soundtrack
The game's soundtrack is top notch. It has a blend of Eastern European motifs with modern sci-fi synths, making the tracks unique. The echoing choruses and unsettling backtracks give a sense that you're on a tense, but mysterious mission to assassinate the templars in the setting of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople that the game takes place in. There's a measured thoughtfulness and caution that you pick up on as well, almost like the songs themselves mimic you as you stalk your targets while you blend in with the crowd. It's such a cool experimental sound that the composer, Jesper Kyd, manages to pull off well, keeping you engrossed as you play and listen.
Pro Impressive recreation of Constantinople to explore with buildings to climb freely
The city of Constantinople, which in the present day is known as Istanbul, is beautifully recreated in Assassin's Creed Revelations. The map is massive for its time, with well-designed areas from the era such as towers, open plazas, and religious buildings. You can climb anything, anywhere, and run along the rooftops as much as you want. Scaling the tallest places gives you an amazing bird's eye view of the city and the mountain ranges and ocean beyond, along with a vantage point to plan out how to assassinate your targets. The realistic architecture makes Assassin's Creed Revelations feel like a true period piece set during the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
Cons
Con Feels like more of the same of Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
If you played Assassin's Creed II and/or Brotherhood, then you may find that Revelations is too similar. The assets are completely reused, with the only major difference being that this game is set in Constantinople. There are a few new ideas like playing as Ezio as an old man after having followed his life story since he was a cavorting teenager in Florence, and new tools like a grappling hook that makes traversing much quicker. It feels too much like Revelations treads on familiar ground in Ubisoft's push to annualize the franchise, making the game seem rushed and uninspired.
Con Multiplayer is pretty much dead
Unfortunately, the multiplayer is all but abandoned by the player base. Even though the multiplayer itself is really cool and fun, you won't find too many people playing it these days. Since the game originally came out in 2011, it's quite old now, and it doesn't help that the devs don't actively update it anymore. The Assassin's Creed multiplayer base in general is also splintered between this game and the other installments with online play. So if you're a new player trying to get into things, don't be surprised if it takes a long time to find a match.
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