Just finished the game. Took me awhile to do so.
Likes:
- I like the the missions where you need to inflitrate/kill. They had a very cool Crysis vibe to it. Walk in, check the place the out with cameras and then slowly execute every single guard.
- The hacking is fun but it's not groundbreaking. Play Syndicate and it uses almost the same system.
- some of the side missions are cool. I did like the Chess mini-game.
Dis-likes
- car chases ****ing suck. The end missions are ****ing brutal because there is a heli and about 20 ****ing cop cars chasing you. I hate them. Not fun and total bullshit.
- controls are iffy. Weapon wheel was a piece of shit. As well, my gun would mysteriously stop firing every so often. I might be replicating a gun jam but if that's the case, its even more bullshit because it's not like the game ultra realistic.
- story is alright. The third act was a lot of fun but 4th and 5th were "meh".
- side missions need to be trimmed down. For ex, the serial killer/missing persons side mission was neat. The last mission was ****ing horrible. In Arkham City, you would of had some interesting gameplay mechanic or some sort of story element but instead it played out like a random crime event. All that lead up and that's all it was. I wanted you to infiltrate a creepy house where it's all ****ed up or something like that. It was the same for the weapons cache.
- the last mission was bullshit. Hack three systems while being chased by every ****ing cop in the city, and the main bad guy ****ing up cTos is brutal. I am supposed to be a guy who doesn't kill anybody but in the last mission, I must of killed 100 cops and ran over a thousand civilians. Totally ruined the experience. Absolute garbage.
All in all, it's an average game that has all the Ubisoft game play mechanics from different games. I really hope that do an "Assassins Creed II" for the sequel. Or try something new.
Vigilante is his title at his best. A vigilante doesn't automatically equate to a hero. And he's not actually trying to be a hero.
His entire story is revenge driven, he just so happens to be a decent(personality wise) guy. But he kills bad guys with abandon as killing them means they don't kill others like his niece and they're in his way. I'm sure he doesn't kill innocents. As far as robbing people, yeah, he hacks atm's like nobodies business but then again the game starts with him as a hacker stealing money...so it's no surprise that's what he does. As for him violating privacy, he is doing so, but only by using CtoS which is already violating said privacy. He's just looking through a back window.