The chaining of kills is still as satisfying and entertaining on consoles, but by shifting the control to a separate button, the change feels arbitrary and off, not inspired. The same can be said for the Vita-specific controls, such as Chain Kills, which offered a tailored experience for the handheld by utilizing its touch controls for an added cinematic flourish. Shorter missions, frequent stops and starts, and occasional segments of tedious gameplay may have been appealing for gamers on-the-go or awaiting the next checkpoint, but simply break the experience for a gamer giving their full attention. With the upgrade to consoles, the similarities become even more pronounced - an intriguing hero who is sold short by the story they star in, and a large 'nature' environment to navigate that is a step between restricting and well-realized.īut even if AC3 offered enough spectacle and scale to keep players engaged, it's impossible to ignore the telltale signs that while Liberation HD looks the part, it was not designed for a console experience. The wealth of gameplay innovations that ultimately feel half-baked or underutilized is a feature Liberation still shares with the numbered entry it was released beside. The notion of disguising Aveline - the daughter of a French merchant and an African slave - as either the wealthy lady she was born to be, the slave she can pass as, or the Assassin she has trained to become is as compelling as ever, but still falls short.
Nevertheless, while it's clear that cutscenes and scripted in-game segments are utilizing lower-res assets than console gamers will be used to, a majority of the open world gameplay is comparable to that of AC3.Īs we stated in our original review of Liberation, new protagonist Aveline de Grandpre is as interesting and compelling character as one would hope for from an installment in Ubisoft's flagship franchise - but not all aspects of game design were similarly inspired.
That might have been expected, of course, given Sony's argument that the Vita and PS3 were capable of producing similar graphics. Unsurprisingly, the visual fidelity of Liberation HD handles the upscaling from handheld to console well.
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