I found it unplayable dull but suffered through a fair amount out of loyalty and hope. This game actually killed AC for me for a while, but then Psychotic (I think) said that Black Flag was amazing so I decided to buy it.

3 did many things well, but those small things were not enough to counteract the general boringness of it all. Ubisoft took all the best bits, polished them up and made an excellent game out of them, so I'm glad about that at least!

As WK said, I am glad they dropped the whole "Assassins = Good" stuff from Ezio's time. I loved that man and those games, but the real draw of the first and fourth games for me is the fact that the Templars are all perfectly reasonable. AC3 reintroduces this, but kind of waters it down by making the Templars comedically evil at times, but overall they did a great job of portraying them as reasonable sympathetic.

Overall, many good things hidden inside a giant grey mushy haystack. Haytham really was the highlight of the game.