The Great JT said:
Nothing does quite top the hugging stab kill.
No, we now have the "You are attempting to hold me hostage in front of your boss while trying to hold both my arms, problem is you have just pointed my wrist-stabbing-knife-of-no-finger-loss in both of your faces. I will now give you the chance to let go...no...shink....thud, thud."
That is what we have better then the hug stab.
Anyways on to the review, yes their is the money aspect that was compltely unnecessary but hey thats the optional part of the game, the only thing you REALLY need to collect are the codex pages and litteraly you get those in between missions pretty much by killing a few guards and taking them. honestly have to wonder how Ezio's father never found them.
While I'll admit the combat in game is frustratingly boring in its pre-school easyness, it does have its moments of actual fun gameplay because most of the time I never actually fought anyone, all I really did unless I had no choice was lead them around and slowly pick them off one by one with assassinations. Doing that makes it fun. Well.... stealing the axe weilding soldiers weapon and then raming it back into his skull is highly satisfying, annoying fucks.
final boss battle, You get to beat the shit out of the pope in fisty cuffs, what more needs to be said after that beyond the fact that it was Ubisofts way of getting around their whole 3 minute death sequence monologue without making us sit around and watch as the guy bleeds to death.
ending is still fucked up though, no doubt about that.
