AltogetherAndrews said:
It'd take something of the sort to find only one (1) thing to list as a minus though. Not even the most avid AC fans are blind to the many serious flaws in the game, yet strangely this guy is. I don't know if it's a money hat or delusion, but that review isn't an honest, truthful review.
Personally, and avoiding a written review because that would take too much time, I would chart the game as a 9.5 (assuming I'm going on a 0.5 scale), so I can at least definitely see how one could forego all of the minor gripes (or what I considered minor at least) of repetition in the missions that build up to the final Assassinations. Maybe it's becasue I actually listened to what the NPCs were saying during every pick-pocket mission or maybe it's because I was so enveloped in the story that what each individual preacher that I needed to mug for information contained interesting words to develop the character of my target. Whatever it may have been, repetition did not hit me as hard as it did some other gamers.
I have not read the full review, so if it is the text that is causing all the commotion then I cannot comment on the issue at hand. However, if it's the score (which still holds some merit), then I'll chime in and say that I don't find it to be too unbelievable.
Even Resident Evil 4, a game that a considerable number of critics awarded a perfect score to, had its flaws. But, apparently to those who assessed the final product, the game had so much to offer, it's flaws were a matter of minutia when the title was viewed as a whole (I personally didn't think RE4 was as amazing as critics and gamers claimed alike).