Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

As a fan of the AC-series I was looking forward to the first game for the Playstation Vita; see how the franchise would tickle the possibilities of the hand-held device. But the result is in fact a disappointing piece of a fast and unfinished production that, very likely, had to be finished for Christmas. No matter of ready or not.

You'll get thrown into the story without any sort of introduction to the situation or the characters. Extremely fast and uncomfortable and that is also the main problem of the storytelling with all of its symptoms. There are many logical errors and many unsolved questions throughout the game, including a mysterious family tragedy about girl between two worlds and the connection to templars and assassins. Some parts of the story are told straight, some parts confusing and not really satisfying.

The game play lacks in so many points, that I don't know where to start. There is no possibility of upgrading armor and weapons, but therefore a strange trading system. The idea might be nice, but it works not well and there is just one single location in the whole game you can use. A situation that becomes even worse because of the countless bugs of "Liberation". For example getting a blind map though you already discovered the whole area. Guards recognize you though you status is absolutely discreet and it happens more than once, that the game crashes. Or as reported, it may happen that your savings mysteriously got lost.

I will not kill the whole game. Indeed of the errors and the lack of storytelling, there is atmosphere and some kind of entertaining suspense. And because the player is controlling a girl, the game play offers some interesting features like playing different social roles. But don't expect these features will help you to overlook the poor quality.

Maybe in 2012 having an exclusive AC for your portable console had felt pretty good, but as of 2022 even remastered version of liberation sure feels outdated. It looks awful and plays even worse. So if you are not a trophy hunter(the game delivers easy and fast plat), don't waste your precious time on ACL.

The story is poorer than other AC's but reasonable the character has a lot more potential than is used and the location isn't all the exciting or breathtaking as others. Given that I still enjoyed the game more than most although less than the others before it in the AC universe the main problem with it was the above but also it being the buggiest game I can remember playing.

This was a fun game to play and I truly enjoyed it. The storyline was great for a short assasins creed game. I recommend this game as a good game to play if you want to finish a quick story of assasins creed.

It's a shame people don't like it, I on the other hand did not expect it be to so awesome. I particularly love the female lead, Aveline. I really didn't have a lot of hope for it then when I saw it as a dlc, after having played AC3, on Xbox 360 when it was new. Now having gone back and played the remastered version of both games, believe it or not but Liberation in HD actually looks better then AC3 remastered. Sure the game is basically a character swap and Aveline controls just like Haytham, but they added some cool features, like the Lady, Slave and Assassin personas for Aveline to switch back and forth between, depending on what missions call for. Overall I enjoyed it very much, and Aveline is a sorely underrated character and Assassin, compared to others in the franchise. If you haven't played, it free to play with the purchase of AC3 Remastered bundle with all the previously released dlc. I'm giving it a 10.