User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 31-03-'15 — Assassin's Creed Chronicles announcement trailer/@comment-5174994-20150509161130/@comment-1888015-20150512033702

I think why some people have some trepidation towards large scale events in the AC games is because AC3 did them so poorly.

The American Revolution was more a war of politics in comparison to a war of action like with the French Revolution. Ubisoft focused too much on putting Connor in these "grand" historical events, and yet the only real battles he took part in was the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Chesapeake Bay. Those two events in the story were the real points in which Connor needed to be active, and even then, he comes across as what you'd expect from an Assassin, active but in the sidelines with their own agenda. Other than that, he's shoveled in to these pointless and small-scale conflicts as a pawn, and that's why people have such a low opinion of him.

The exact opposite is of Arno, in that Ubisoft got shit-scared of how Connor was viewed, so they took Arno out of the real action pieces of the French Revolution, when his inclusion as a single party would have been more engaging and given his story a better reputation, as opposed to ill-promoted co-op missions. He does have some large scale missions when you consider it, but many of them are his Templar assassinations, and they're a bit disconnected to the turmoil of the French Revolution, which is probably why I haven't fully completed Unity's side content like I did with Watch_Dogs. Too open-world, tedious story that doesn't do the main character enough justice.