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SuperNamekGod posted...

The only AC game i've played is AC3 on 360 and I didn't do much besides mess around and fight redcoats. Has the gameplay changed from all the way then and improved? Is it better as an open world game? By that I mean is there more freedoms in the world there and a lot of side things you can do?

It's many of the same core mechanics as AC3, but with many changes as well. Such as much harder combat without being able to mash the button to endlessly reverse and insta kill, there's no just taking on a group of enemies as they stand there waiting for their turn to kill you. If you get surrounded by a group and just try to stand there and fight you will get your ass killed very quickly.
The missions are much less linear than before and the world has much more freedom.
You can change your weapons and build your skills on a way that is more tailored to your play style if you'd rather be in the core of combat or try to be stealthy and ranged. Both methods have their own challenges and rewards and neither feel half assed like "you can try for stealth but the game is designed to auto detect you after your first kill anyways" it's actually viable to use Eagle Vision, which in Origins is a literal eagle you call and can fly around in the air over enemies giving you a sort of drone view. You can use that and other things to actually try to strategize a stealth strategy or just go in fighting and running around like a mad man.

If you've ever played a souls game or an RPG with that type of combat, it feels a lot more like that as opposed to like a Batman Arkham game with the combat. Although it doesn't have the intentionally padded and inflated difficulty of a souls game, it still tries to stay accessable to a wide audience, but you do have difficulty settings this time around to give some more range.
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