User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 01/17 -- ACW New Admin, key Ubisoft figure leaves AC/@comment-3979608-20120118234449/@comment-4043223-20120124060728

I think Darby is a great writer, I have read his book, his style is unique and it is a great read. I for one didn't think ACR was as good as the previous games but I don't think it is down to him alone and was a collective thing caused by the compacted rollout timeline. A lot of Cellos points are very valid and I feel that the series has moved away in ACR from the core concepts that made AC1 and AC2 so great. As for the multiplayer, I can't comment because I never played it, have no desire to either but if a game is set up with a singleplayer main story as the core element of the game then (in my observations) why was there such focus on the multiplayer element to the series. I may be wrong on this as my views are subjective but it felt like the focus has been taken aware from the main story for multiplayer mode (which by all accounts I hear had a great background story written by Jeffery Yohalem.