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But despite all the new assets and graphics, there is no escaping the fact it is based on a game first released in 2013.<\/p>\n
Ubisoft had to make lots of calls about what to reuse and change from the original.<\/p>\n
Welsh actor Matt Ryan’s performance is excellent, but some of the initial game’s animations – such as characters repeatedly biting and spitting out a cork from a bottle – might have been best left in the past.<\/p>\n
The game also suffers from a problem all too common in modern gaming: it holds your hand far too much.<\/p>\n
In the most extreme case, at one point it gave me less than 10 seconds to figure out a puzzle before a character spat out the solution.<\/p>\n
The combat also clearly draws from modern Assassin’s Creed games, but preserves some of the timing-based battling of the original.<\/p>\n
It’s a nice marriage between the two, albeit disappointing that some things were not recreated – such as the ability to wield your assassin’s hidden blades in combat.<\/p>\n
That combination of modern and classic combat is a good example of where the game shines. And if Ubisoft uses this as the template, we may be set to see many more remakes in the series’ future.<\/p>\n
So perhaps the question is not whether it worth the wait at all, but how long we will have to wait for the next one?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n