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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But despite all the new assets and graphics, there is no escaping the fact it is based on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}