Among all of the AC games I've played, this probably had the weirdest story to me. The constant time change to intersect with American history seemed like terrible writing and it made Conors transformation from a boy to an assassin disappointing. There was no training scenes, montages, he became an assassin just like that. Moreover, I'm not sure if this might just be me and my unfamiliarity with the controls but the parkour sucked ass. I quite liked AC 4 parkour better, but the setting in AC 3 would have been the best for parkour.
When I first played this game, I had an open conscience, no reviews, no recommendations, no expectations. Perhpaps all I was expecting was to have fun. In the end, it was disappointing to me. I didn't like the characters, the plot, the parkour. Even Haythams end fight was terrible. In spite of playing as him and seeing how he could easily storm a fort, his fight with Connor was humiliating. When I say a game could have had potential, I probably Ean this game.