I keep trying to get into Assassin's Creed, but the worlds feel so empty to me. Outside of "hey lookit that jumpy guy!" every NPC is a faceless, nameless, no-dialog shell. It makes sense if we are re-living the flashbacks of an ancestor who never spoke to those people, but not once do I feel like I am actually in that ancient world. The same goes for the glittery white effects every few seconds, and the "sync lost!" going red- again, I know I am playing a memory, but I never, ever, ever, feel like I am an Assassin in the middle ages. I feel like I am playing a man watching a video about the middle ages, with the boom mic visible, and extras wearing wrist watches and answering cellhphone calls midway through.
I'd prefer if you enter the memory, then PLAY IT open world- if you die, that's when the game says "wait, it didn't happen like that!"
i don't want white and silver Matrix-crap flying over everything half the time.
russellohh