Calvarok

You make some mistakes in this. You don't cut your master assassins loose. You can still summon them with your signal after they've leveled. All promoting them does is give you 2 assassination missions you can do with the (which is a point for the bonding factor, I'd say) makes them stronger, and stops attacks on their den.

The reason notoriety is harder to diminish is that it give you more encouragement to, well, not do notorious things! An assassin should be wary of getting huge amounts of publicity, yes? Officials and bribe heralds pop up more often than previously, anyways. Guards clip through roofs in every AC game. You've just been lucky enough not to see it till now.

Considering how easy combat is, Jannissaries being hard seems fair.

The data fragments were used to unlock Desmond's first person platforming memories, as well as unlock the outfit.

Overall, I thought that Revelations had a lot more soul than Brotherhood, particularly in its story. I enjoyed all the hints at the modern storyline we got, and I'm excited to find out about Desmond's past, and his father. The multiplayer unlocks showed a ton of new info about abstergo, and even set up an abstergo hit squad who desmond will undoubtedly encounter.

The hookblade was awesome, the bombs were reasonably enjoyable, and very fun to mess around with, and I liked that there were two free-roam locations instead of just one.

The way Eagle sense was implemented seemed a bit rushed at some points, but it was interesting to see Ezio use it for things other than what we've seen it used for in the past, like tracking enemies, or reading a heartbeat. Here's hoping the player has more control over how they use it, if it returns, and that it's just all around sleeker.

Brotherhood and Revelations were a way to flesh out some story and test people's reactions to some new gameplay options, while AC3 was being worked on in the background. However, they were of a higher quality than most games with three year dev cycles I've bought recently. nowhere near as big a step as AC2, but I still feel that they are worth their price. I'm excited for major mechanical overhauls and extended polish time on AC3.