All this AC hating makes me sad. Loved AA, have been looking forward to AC.
Not to discourage you but AC was my first PS3 game. I loved my first playthrough as it was the first console game with 1080i that I played and was off my wii. But as soon as the short campaign and little sidestories are over (the sidemissions are the best part of this game), the game becomes a ghost town filled with doing useless riddler trophies everywhere.
It slowly began to get to me. I started New Game + and even with everything refreshed I couldn't take it anymore. There was so many things wrong with the game, besides offering exclusive dlc at a different retailer (I got screwed with GameSTOP and some joker challenge map and should have gone with Bestbuy who had THE COMPLETE ROBIN DLC PACK, really angered me), along with the catwoman dlc being an online pass (didn't affect me as I bought it on launch) the game just had so many little things wrong with it that stops it from being a game that would even come close to 96/100 and made me think metacritic as a whole is a ridiculous means of assessing a game for consumers.
If I really wanted to give it a score I would have given it a 7.5/10 or 8/10. Its a good game, just not a great game or anywhere near perfect. The frustrating controls, annoying combo system (this honestly did nothing for me), meaningless open world (I think this game could have been better if it didn't try open world because you would have to fly from one of the city to the other and just stop along the way to do meaningless things), and the great atmosphere you feel in the beginning just gets dull by the end.
The moment I traded that game in for Sleeping Dogs was a relief. I can't stand some games in my library and was glad I got rid of it.
