Assassin’s Creed Revelations - Review

What better way to count down your days till the release of Assassin's Creed III, than replay its illustrious predecessor. Go back; re-immerse yourself as Ezio Auditore as he continues on his historical quest. To inspire you forward, here is a review which will help cast your mind back to Ezio Auditore in Assasin’s Creed Revelations and ready you up for the next pinnacle in the Art of Assassination. 

Assassin’s Creed Revelations marks the final stab-wound of both eras explored in all three previous adventures and brings together the final journey of Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Altair Ibn-La’Ahad. Ubisoft have undoubtedly created the best chapter of the four piece ‘chef-d'oeuvre’ with its refined beauty undeniably coming out proudly on top its predecessors.

Ubisoft have done well to add several new features, but alike the Modern Warfare series, Assassin’s Creed Revelations remains very similar to its predecessors. Yet Assassin’s Creed evades falling victim to Modern Warfare criticism. With Revelations this similarity brings both strengths and weaknesses by sustaining an existing gameplay system while introducing many new features. 

Assassin’s Creed Revelations distinguished fighting mechanism explodes into the main bulk of the story in Constantinople. Its unique storyline, intricately designed gameplay and diversity of characters adds prominence to Ezio as he continues on his quest to eliminate the Templars. Revelations brings improvements in graphics and storytelling, creations of new characters and delves deeper into Desmond, who lies inside the collapsing Animus. Among all the hook-blading, spear-thrusting, bomb-throwing and gun-shooting lays a sparking relationship between Ezio and Sofia which is constantly interrupted by kill quests at every exchange. 

Revelations focuses on Ezio finding the Masyaf keys before the Templars to open the depths of Altair’s secret Library and seek out and find Altair enigma and discover the meaning of the memories triggered within each of the five keys. The few downsides of Revelations includes the weak Den Defence mini-game and Desmond’s almost boring side missions, yet these minor faults are nothing compared to the graphically excellent, gripping gameplay and well researched historical storyline, focused on an old yet swift monkey-ninja saving the world yet again using parkour, sword-fighting and frantically climbing towering structures while throwing the occasional cherry bomb. 

Assassin's Creed III will be released in the UK on October 31^st, 2012.