This is a game that had so much untapped potential but so many flaws and was vastly inferior to both AC2 and AC: B. Here's why: the progression is long boring cutscene, horse travel, long boring cutscene about target, repetitive tasks to get to target, boring open fight with target which is just a counter-fest. This all would have been better if the game had just allowed me to actually stealth-assassinate a majority of the targets, as an assassin should not be in boring, slow fights. For all its faults, the cities are beautiful, and the story is pretty interesting (a combo of historical fiction and sci-fi), but it's still the worst game I've finished, although I try to play great games only, so that's not that bad of an insult.