Just installed Assassin's Creed Revelations. Seems pretty identical to Brotherhood (which most people call Assassins Creed 2.5, I call it Assassins Creed 2.9). I haven't played it so much but so far it seems like it added a lot of stuff which works but isn't necessary... like at all...
The Den Protect mini-game isn't as broken as I've heard but it's incredibly boring and totally unnecessary...
The hook-blade seems cool and useful at first but most of the time I even forgot it was there, until I hit a zipline (which isn't as fast or useful as it pretends to be ether) and Ezio (Auditore da... la la la)'s ability to grab ledges farther only replaces the double jump or double climb or whatever it was called in AC 2 and AC 2.9. It's useful for avoiding those near misses when trying to grab a ledge but that's it...
The city has more detail, hard not to notice that, and the graphics in general are great (game looks good even in low res, unlike 2.9), although Turkey looks very washed out compared to Italy, exactly the opposite of today's Turkey and Italy (shit hole lol).
The story... doesn't seem to be any, like, at all. And Ezio (Auditore Da... oh fuck it) writing letters to his sister with the Animus DOS background kinda kills the mood...
Good game, I just wouldn't call it ''new''. Appreciated the PC port improvements though...