User blog comment:The.Outsider/Tons of New AC3 Info & Gameplay!/@comment-3997738-20120928114447/@comment-4829046-20120928143242

Yep its both. I don't know who came up with the idea that "combat is simplified" no offense but to newbies who don't know the new mechanisms (or the old for that matter) it is extremely difficult. But the guy in the demo probably hasn't played AC before cause he made a lot of blunders.