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In another episode of Steve Jobs' "Late to the Game" reviews, I'm now playing Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag for PS4
Having just polished off Tomb Raider, who's play mechanics were absolutely spot-on, this game offers the absolute definition of a love-hate game relationship. I love the period this game explores and the pirate theme, and the open world game play.. even the story is decent so far. Reminds me a little of what I loved so much about Red Dead Redemption. But the play mechanics of this game have had me quite nearly throwing my controller in frustration. The character seems to have a mind of his own on chase sequences, for example, and wants to cling to buildings or other elements when you're just wanting him to run his ass off. The battle system was also poorly done for a game of this size. When fighting multiple enemies I find myself resorting to futile button mashing when the sequences I've been learning seem to have no effect. Even the ship battle sequences seem broken. I've just left Havana which was so beautifully presented so I'm still early into the game but if those things could have been done better this, for me, would have been an much higher score for me: A begrudged A-
- I enjoyed this one a loternexbcn
- same. i've played every edition of the series and each one seems to have a slightly different level of "stickiness" when it comes to climbing and stuff. it canscarabin
- be quite maddening when you run up a wall or something when you're just trying to chase someone down a streetscarabin
- also im not sure if it was this one or not but in most creed games you can parry an attack and auto-kill them without having to just bludgeon people to deathscarabin
- with your sword. saves a lot of time and button mashingscarabin
- scarabin, I think you're right and I'm not sure I've mastered that technique yet which is probably why I'm frustrated.SteveJobs