Best review here in a long time. You really hit the nail on the head regarding AC's massive story problems. Every time I read about this game, I become more and more annoyed that they didn't scrap the stupid techno-backstory yet. It did nothing more to me in AC3 than to draw me out of immersing myself in the…

Appreciate your article, Pat, but is it possible that the male rape scene was included for no other reason than because the developers thought it would be a "cool" scene? I saw the scene a lot like an homage/reference to Pulp Fiction, and the Marcellus Wallace rape scene.