this game may have given us the best villain of the series in British Hillary Clinton, but everything else is a step down from among thieves. the shambhala is less interesting (it should be telling that i have to refer to it as "the shambhala"), there's an entire section of gameplay that's completely irrelevant to the plot, the story is much less cohesive, and some parts of the plot feel unfinished, like all of talbot's character or the [spoiler] fake out at the end. it's not like, awful, but it ends the trilogy on a low note for me.