2's the best one still. Brotherhood was a direct sequel set in Rome and arguably of equal quality. Then you had Revelations, which didn't hit as hard as the previous ones, but had a good setting (16th Century Istanbul) and I thought was a decent conclusion to the Ezio Auditore arc.
3 was really dull, I felt, and never finished it back in the day, but it did end Desmond's story arc.
They could have stopped there, but they didn't. 4 is the famous pirate one, which is a good pirate sandbox but a bad AC game and the consistent descent into endless spinoffs and cashgrabs. They could make one set in Moscow in 1917 and I still wouldn't be interested (funnily enough, I think they actually did - one of the 2D ones?) for the Ubisoft sandbox model sucks, the writing is trash and the abomination of what they did to Karl Marx in Syndicate (he's a reformist lib in it) is about what one could expect in these supposedly historical settings.
Don't forget about Unity between Ezio and 3. There was still a little bit of juice left in the fruit at that point but on release it was a dumpster fire so it doesn't get the love it would have otherwise.
I played it some and thought it was good. More difficult than the other games and leaned away from the simplification of the controls 4 had. I could have just sucked at the combat but it was balanced so that you actually had to be sneaky because guards could kill you.
2's the best one still. Brotherhood was a direct sequel set in Rome and arguably of equal quality. Then you had Revelations, which didn't hit as hard as the previous ones, but had a good setting (16th Century Istanbul) and I thought was a decent conclusion to the Ezio Auditore arc.
3 was really dull, I felt, and never finished it back in the day, but it did end Desmond's story arc.
They could have stopped there, but they didn't. 4 is the famous pirate one, which is a good pirate sandbox but a bad AC game and the consistent descent into endless spinoffs and cashgrabs. They could make one set in Moscow in 1917 and I still wouldn't be interested (funnily enough, I think they actually did - one of the 2D ones?) for the Ubisoft sandbox model sucks, the writing is trash and the abomination of what they did to Karl Marx in Syndicate (he's a reformist lib in it) is about what one could expect in these supposedly historical settings.
Don't forget about Unity between Ezio and 3. There was still a little bit of juice left in the fruit at that point but on release it was a dumpster fire so it doesn't get the love it would have otherwise.
Nah, it released after 4 actually.
I got it for free when Notre Dame was burning, but never played it.
I played it some and thought it was good. More difficult than the other games and leaned away from the simplification of the controls 4 had. I could have just sucked at the combat but it was balanced so that you actually had to be sneaky because guards could kill you.