I got the game in 2025 and played it on PS5 Pro. There were no issues with compatability. The gamecontent is for about 15 to 30 hours good, going for 100% might take over 35 hours. With story completed an a bunch of upgrading the ship, I spent 19 hours for around 55% completion. Most outstanding part of the game is definetively its idea to play as a templar. Though I also like its general other ideas, as for upgrading buildings, slight changes to ship combat compared to AC IV and a few more could have made the game one of the best in the franchise.
As it is the remaster, I expected more polishing and specifically better graphics compared to the non remaster. On a 4k OLED screen, I did not encouter anything terrible in visual quality, for its time, the graphics are all right.
A negative is the quality features in terms of missing bug fixing, as characters and objects occasionally slipped though other textures. Especially in a remaster, this is unexpected and no good.
The story progresses consistently but rather quickly, it should have gotten more depth but its not a major part to criticize. The goals and targets of missions are clear and easy to follow.
The amount of updates after reading the disk is less than a GB, which I do wonder about, as there were probably a lot of things to fix from first release. Buying the game in 2025 for 15€ and having fun playing it without any real expectations, I recommend giving it a chance. Especially if you liked AC IV in general and want something new in its kind of gameplay.
80+ hours
First Zelda for me (surprisingly)
- new additions (compared to Breath of the Wild)
- Good graphics and performance
- Weapons reduced durability (from miasma) is a slight pain
80+ hours
- Starts as expected (which is good)
- Decent evolution from previous title - Good graphics and performance
- tool to form the island comes too late for me
Two playthroughs
- Decent graphics
- Good music
- Further ongoing Story from previous titles (Underground, Most Wanted)
- open world and teleporting to events
- Slightly weirdcop scaling (1-2x non existent)
300+ hours
- Good co-op (only host needs DLCs)
- Decent graphics
- Nice depth to dive into
- Good performance (R7 3700x + RTX2080 on 1440p)
- Restarts to get back to main menu
- Takes some time to get into
~40-50 hours
- misses known things from Platinum
- Pokémon following in overworld (Size incorrect for 2+ meter Pokémon)
- Graphics are fine, look in battle much better
- Chibi look wants to add to nostalgia but misses the touch of time in my opinion
- Postgame conent is cut compared to Platinum
- no problems (performance etc.)
~40-50hours
- Refreshing concept of island challenges instead of gyms
- Slightly diffrent approach to beeing the champ, more realistic
- long prologue
- perfomance and graphics are fine
- Very beginner friendly
- Graphics are good
- Pokémon Go catch mechanic makes me miss the wild encounter battles, low impact on catchrate (no low health bonus)
- nothing (really) new, but an interesting take to change something
100+ Hours
- Performance could need a fix
- generally playable
- there are some less good players, don't expect a lot from Teammates at lower rankings specifially
1000+ Hours
- only a few cheaters (had around 5 red screens so far)
- Performance is good
- Visibillity is good
- Teammates are matchmaking gamble (as expectet in pvp tactical shooter)
Around 30 hours in (PS5 Pro)
- great graphics
- gamepace is very enjoyable (not too fast/slow)
- Quests look promising
- The two characters are well implemented
Issues had: crashed once (no problem, was back where I left)
~10h gametime
Performance seems decent, have some issues occasionaly though with fps drops down to 20-30 from my capped 83. (Using RTX 2080 + 3700x)
Funmodes are generally playable but ranked seems unplayable. It feels like having to win 2 of 3 coin tosses a round if its not domination, domination is a bit better.
Played since release, first fifa/fc since Fifa2006 for me and some fifa/fc mobile since 2 years (playtime about 40+ hours). So I decided to get this game. I'm rougly 92 hours in the game about 90% in careermode (pro and manager) an obviously for me zero money spend except the game purchase.
Generally I did have fun most time playing it, but I would not recommend buying this for full price, as there are some probelms with it.
Biggest for me is the graphics, I play a Ultra/high mix on 1440p60, runs quite well on my RTX 2080. The Jerseys do wobble a lot, like unrealisticly, as if one would always swing it around or do 360s in them, so they have extreme jiggle physics. On top, the playnames on these jerseys tilt around kind of like windows 7 3D wallpapers. Performance wise, well menuspeed is okay (installed on SATA SSD) , gma runs mostly smooth but with everything on ultra it does lag (I am referring to offline Gameplay) Big flaw is the autosafes in career mode. Noticed it after trying to reload an older safe before a cup final. I auto simulated because there were wrong players on the pitch, there was a cutsequence which I skipped and left without saving. Loading my safe and it got overwritten. It does not create extra safes, you would have to do this manually.
Update 6th January 2025 247h in the game (99% offline)
The game got worse with the updates (4+GB). I have performance problems that are not caused by my pc, meaning screenfreezes midgame for up to 2 seconds - at least every 4th match. Crucial thing is, the game goes on during the freeze where I can obviously not impact the game. There is also, specifically in the box a ton of bodyblocking, which in theory at least should result in penaltys or even cards. Defending players that you yourself dont control, will not try running forward to block an attacker, who got the ball 2 meters from them 5 meters from the goal. It is like the players off the ball defending are utterly brainless and straight up afk. Summing up, playing yourself is not great or good managing only is fine though.
