Assassin’s Creed Review
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When considered alongside its immediate predecessor, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is defined by relatively constrained ambitions; epicness is rejected. Far from a failing, the narrative ultimately benefits from its hyperfocusedness, the core plot spanning a scant six or seven years, while Assassin’s Creed II’s narrative unraveled over some winding two or so decades; succinctness is totally
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Assassin’s Creed is defined by its rigidness, firmly adhering always to structure – the narrative especially is formulaic, is mostly unambitious and unengaging in nature, characterized by failure. One major failing – a further display of ambition’s absence – is observable within the secondary characters; or rather their lack. Save for the player character Altair,