
To do this, he has to find various ingredients around the city, or buy them if he can, and mix them on one the many mixing benches. The first – and without a doubt the most visible - new feature is the possibility for Ezio to create and use all sorts of grenades/bombs. But it's when you are confronted to the new features which have been added to Revelations that things get slightly sour. I personally even think that as long as you do not stray too far from that mold, everything works perfectly and is completely appropriate. It's with no surprise that we discover that the core of the game doesn't play much differently from Brotherhood, which is not really a bad thing in my opinion. After quite a few events – see our videos – our hero finally arrives in Constantinople, the game's new city, for a brand new and exciting adventure. A few seconds are more than enough for any fan to understand that we are back to the good old Masyaf fortress, the former seat of power of the Assassins and where a lot of the events of the first Assassin's Creed actually happened. The action starts under heavy snow, with Ezio now sporting a very respectable looking salt and pepper beard - but still as fit physically as ever. The game's name itself, Revelations, clearly tells it all, even though not a lot of character development should be expected for Desmond himself, but then he got quite a bit of that in Brotherhood anyway. At least, if the rumors we got to hear in the last few days are indeed true. All this without a doubt to prepare the player for something entirely different in Assassin's Creed 3 next year. But more than ever, this new episode is specifically designed to finally give a closure to the two main stories started now 4 and 2 years ago.ĪCR is indeed the ultimate chapter of Ezio's adventures, but more importantly, the episode which will give Altaïr an ending fitting such a character. And with the return of Altaïr, you would actually be well advised to have played and finished the first game - as tedious as it could be.

There is clearly very little point in playing Revelations without having at least finished the last two previous episodes.

This review is written for people who already played (and liked, I guess) the previous games of the series.
